The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-05
CHAMBERLAIN BEFORCED OUT?
liberals PROFESS TO THINh
" THAT ne WILL ne.
the Issue to he Made on Meeting OF the
Commons on Monday, When Dcciara'
ton or Tartr Policy win Be Demanded
CONSERVATIVES are TO Flight Pian.

, 0Onln1O na on NtOnUdy, Nnrt UtS"' -
ton or Tar,H Policy VIII Be Demanded
CONSERVATIVES are TO Fight Plan.
ispt-,aj care pe,pa'ch 10 THE Sv>
LONDON, June 4.--The Ht u ,c Of Commons
will NEE. on Monday, when the debate
opens on the second reading Of the Budget
hill. Mcan;ims the opponents OF Mr..
Chamberlain. who include the whole Lib
eral opposition and severcl nominal sup
porters Of the Government are preparing
wea pors to at ack tho Colonial S'crct8ry's
preferential tariff scheme.
II is generally believed that Sir Michael
Hicks Beach. eS-Chencelior of the Ez-
ch"quer. will he ready With an important
declaration absolutely disavowing Mr..
Chamberlan's policy. and II is said that he
will be infllentially backed by free trade
Conservatives MIR Richie is regarded as
a convinced opponent of Mr.. Chamberlain,
and 1T Ia reported that he is only willing
to remain Chancellor Of the Exchequer go
long as his Budget, with it's free trade feat
lre, namely, the repeal OF tn" corn duty.
Ia not assailed
According to statelnents current In Oppo-
sitiop circles viscount Goechen will de-
uounce the preferential project in the House
Of Lords, with the support Of the Duke OF
Devonshire, President Of the Council the
Marquis Of Lansdowne, Secretary OF State
for Foreign Affairs. and the Earl OF Sell
borne. First Lord of the Admiralty.
The Liberal attitude is clear and definite.
Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman and his
colleagues will demand from Prime Min
lister Ralfour a plain and unequivocal
declaration Of policy. either for or against
free trade, and, declaring themselves I'M
opposed to any departure
from free trade, will Welcome the assist
ance of any part of the House in maintain
ing this position.
They will also insist that delay is inn
possible, and will endeavor to compel the
to place the issue before the
country Immediately. Some Of them are
that 80 serious assure will dis
close itself in the ministerial ranks that
Mr. Balfour will realize that he no longer
possesses adequate power to carry ON the
work Of Government, and they profess to
believe that he will place his resignation
in the Kings hands before the week passes.
In that case. say the Liberals. the King
will sedd for tarl Spencer and Sir Henry
Campbell- Zimmerman and ask them to
form IN Administration, Unbiased OBJ
servers attribute the parentage OF this
thought 70 the obvious wish, and nothing
reliable is known at the present moment
i ,stifying any modification Of the view
heretofore set forth in the cable dispatches
10 1IE Sun II is certain. however, that
the ihernls believe they scent an electoral
war and are preparing for desperate de-
fence If free trade principles.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt In letter
to a political friend denounces the 'out-
ra geous conduct Of Mr. Chamberlain and
Mr.. Balfour." and recalls his own recol-
lectons Ct -the miserable conditions of
agricultural laborers and industrial artisans
when food was taxed and every manu-
ia oturer protected.
After reviewing the growth Of the coun-
try's prosperity under free trade. Sir Viii.
liam says;
THE pretence OF colonial preferences is
only shallow mask to cover the restora-
ton Of the whole doctrine of protection.
and thus to rein.tate the injustice of
system by which the burden Of indirect
was imposed upon the mass of
the people t., relieve the Weather classes
from their due contribution 10 tn" ex-
penditure OF the State.
mo man who knows anything Of the
political or social history Of this nation
will be de,ded by the false pre-, ence that
1t an increase OF wages, and no man has
more >mphaticallv repudia'ed such An
argument than Mr.. Chamberlain himself.
The system Of colonial preferences far
from uniting the empire, will be fruitful
cau., Of dispute between the United King
dom and the seif-governing colonies, az TO
the equivalents which each is to receive and
their relative demands will be Impossible To
reconcile in practice, while they will deprive
the United Kingdom Of that absolute
freedom in dealing with its own finance
according to the needs Of our people at
home, which is more than ever indispen-
sable in the crushing weight OF the present
inordiuate expenditure to which the col
oniee make no adequate contribution.
Added TO this will b, the inevitable con-
fct with foreign ratione by reta'iatory
tariffs
Sir william, Vernon uarcourt is now sick
in led and it il improbable tina. he will
attend Parliament for some time. but he
declares that hc il determined - do his
utmost to defeat tho new proposals.
The Liberal Mdgonnc for June contains
the opinion. of the party leaders.
Among them is that Of Carl Spencer. tho
Liberal leader in the House Of Lords, who
says that the OPT osition cannot too eagerly
AXE zip the Governments challenge. lie
predicts disoster for British exports and
imports and loss Of tho shipping trade II
his return to protection" lie adopted.