Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-07
chamberlain P[AN
Outlines His Tariff Proposals
In Speech at Glasgow All
Raw Materials Free
AND BEEF To PAY DUTY
Corn and Pork, However, Would be
Admitted Free--Would Make Tea and
Sugar aper-Foundatio of the
Empire Insecure Under the Old Free
Trade Polct.

Empire Insecure Under the Old Free
Trade Police.
/ Glasgow. Get. Me Chamberlain
Hast night exp aimed in dstail his fiscal
Ipoiicy before II large audience.
Mr.. Chamberlain thanked the great
representative audience for offering
him the opportunity of explaining for
the first time in some letail his views
OH the subject OF the fiscal policy in
the policy from which free trade first
took birth, and in which Adam Smith
taught
The speaker paid the highest tribute
TO Mr.. Balfour. with whose principles
and policies he fully agreed, and said
he admired the courage and resource
with which the premier mad faced diff
ficulties unsurpassed in political his
tory. Mr.. Chamberlain continued:
L have invited discussion upon
question peculiarly within my prov
iilce owing to my past life and the Of
fee ! so recently held.
Taking up the position of a pioneer
TO so in front OF the al1n.i. II the army
is attacked 1 will returs to it. ! re-
main always an optimis;. 1t is posi-
hle that the nation may he prs pared TO
go farther thar the officijtl program.
nov ask the question, Is il SO pre-
pared? Great Britain iE the past has
played great part in ne worlii's his
tory. l desire her 10 continue and see
the realization of the great ideal of an
empire such as the Word has nevei
SEEN"
The speaker alluded TO the recent
visit he paid ID Venice ahen he found
The Canpana which had stood for
centuries and which whan he previ-
nent as the city itself, now a mass of
ruins. He continued:
Il do not say that / anticipate such
fate for the British empire. but | do
say that ! see signs OF decay, cracks
ard crevices showing thar the founda-
tons are not broad and deep enough to
sustain 1t. Am | wrong 10 warn you
Is 1t not strange and Inconsistent that
the same people who indicted the gov
eminent for It's unpreparsdness in the
South African war should now de-
nounce me In language equally extrav-
asart because | want to prepare you
for a struggle 50 serious that II we are
defeated the country will lose its place
among the great nations-a struggle |
which we are invited 10 faeet with an
methods and tactics ?"
Adduting statistics Mr. Chamberlain !
contrasted the moderate increase OF |
I II per cent in the export trade of |
Great Britain and the increase of 80
per cent in he population since 1872, |
With the enormous increases of trade |
in the United States and Germany,
and he asked how the country could !
expect to support it's growing popula-
tion with its trade practically stagnant
for thirty years. He proc,aeded
1On the other hand the protected !
countries which you have been told |
and l myself one time believed We're I
going rapidly to wreck and ruin have
progressed infinitely better In proper |
ton than ourselves, and instead of, as I
Golden believed, our remaining the /
of the world. wa are sending |
less and less of our manufactures
whilst the protected countries
are sending more and more of their
here.
In the same period our exports to t
non manufacturing countries 1ils,
Egypt, China and South america, have
remained unchanged. This
loss OF trade to the protected countries
has not been noticed hitherto because
during the same period cur exports to
the British colonies have Increased in
ratio to counter balance this loss and
are now more valuable than our trade
with the whole Of Europe and the Unit
eel states together. Our colonial trade.
IN fact. is the most rapidly increasing,
important and valuable Of all our
trade. Meanwhile foreign exports to
he United Kingdom have risen from
81, 100000 pounis in 1872 to las, 00O, 900
pounds in 1902 l do not comment on
hat, but when am told that we ought
o hold the same opinion as our an .
'estors. | reply that we should if the !
remained the same. {
Il have made these figures clear. 1t II
$ plain that our imperial trade is es-
ential to our prosperity If it de- ,
tiiiC@ VI Aa,lIS ~ IIlGIcftSt III DTODOf- II
ion to our population, and to the loss {
II our foreign trade, then we shall sink
nto flfth-rate nation. We have
cached our highest point and / am not l
ertain but that some of MY opponents
egard that With absolute sonplaeency (
have the misfortune to be an opti-
mist. | do not believe in the setting of
he British star, but then / do not be- 5
ieve in the foll.s of the British people {
see that some of our labor leaders i
re persuading the worknlen to main- i
ain the system of free imports. | I'M 5
lertake to say that not one of them ]
ould visit the colonies fer six months j
without singing a different tune. The c
asst majority of the wolkmen in the i
oonies are protectionists, and l am /,
isinclined to accept the easy expiana- {
ion that they Ire all fools It
Now, what is the history of protec- f
ion? First. there is tariff and no in 7
ustries. Then gradually primary in /
ustries, for which the country has S
arural facilities, grow UP behind the S
arif wall. Then secondary industries
pring up; first of necessares then of |
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