The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07
WARNS ENGLAND.
Joseph Chamberlain Says She
Must Get More Trade
Or Be Vanquished Utterly by the
United States.
OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN.
First of a Series of Speeches
Delivered at Glasgow.
Calls Tariff System of This
Country an Accumulation.
OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN.

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Glasgow, oct. THE first of series
of fiscal campaign speeches by Joseph
Chamberlain last night was virtually
warning that England must secure
more of the worlds trade or be van
q ned utterly by the United States.
He declared that, already. he saw
signs of decay. cracks and erevices''
in Great Britain's structure, Hkening it
to the Canpanile in Venice which stood
SO many centuries only to fall with
sudden crash.
The tariff of the United States was
referred to by the ex-colonial secretary
an "abomination'' because of it's ex-
clusiveness and he urged a different
course with England's colonies.
Mr. Chamberlain, commencing his
speech, said that his first duty was to
thank the great representative audience
for offering him the opportunity of ex-
planning for the first time in some de-
tail his views on the subject of his
fiscal policy in the city from which free
trade first took birth and in which
Adam Smith taught. Continuing, he
paid a tribute to Adam Smith to whom,
however, he said il was not given TO
foresee all the changes which had Oc
CURED during the last century and a,
half. Adam Smith, nevertheless, was
aware of the Importance Of home mar
l1ets compared to foreign ones. and Mr..
Chamberlain had been impressed by
the manner in which he advocated re-
taliation under certain conditions and
how he urged reciprocal trade between
the colonies and the mother country.
Hence. the speaker was not afraid in
Glasgow to combat free imports and
preach preference to the colonies. 1t
was known to every man that Scotland
contributed out of all proportion to her
population to the building up of the
empire which genius capacity and
courage had created and maintained.
Mr.. Cham berlain said:
L do not regard this as party NEE
ing I am no longer a party leader, but
an outsider. l do not think it right to
raise any exclusive party issues, but az I
ter what has occurred since the meeting
at Sheffield word or two might be Civ
en- me to say that though / am no longer
a leader, I am still loyal servant to
the party whose union and strength IS
essential 10 the welfare of the "empire
and which has found a leader whom ~
cry member may be proud to follow
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 had faced difficulties
unsurpassed in political history. MIR.
Chamberlain cOntipued:
1T seems as though in this country
know the meaning of loyalty and
friendship. To them I say that nothing
they may dc will have the slightest in
fiuence to affect in the slightest degree
the friendship and confidence existing
between the premier and myself To my
friends and supporters in the great
struggle on which / have entered, say
give no encouragement to mean and Ii
telIous insinuatiOns for in no conceiv-
a BILE circumstances will allow myself
Ia no n of cOmn4at ltlOn direct
or indirect with my friend and leader.
Il have invited discussion upon
question peculiarly within my province
owing to my past life and the office so
recently held.
Taking up the position of a leader,
go in front of the army. If the army is
attacked / will return to it, I am al
ways an optinist. 1t is possible that the
nation may be prepared to go farther
than the official programme. l now ask
the question, is it so prepared? Great
Britain in the past has played great
part in the worlds history. I desire her
to continue and see the realization of
the great ideal of an empire such as the
world has never seen. If that Is 20 be
attained. this matter should be treated
on its merits without any personal feel
ing or bitterness and without entering
on questions of purely party contro-
versy."
The ex-coloniaI secretary alluded to
the recent visit he paid to Venice when
stod for centuries and which, when he
previously visited Venice. seemed as
permanent as the city itself, now mass
of ruins. He continued Il do not say
that I anticipate such a fate for the
British empire but I say that I see
signs of decay. cracks and crevices
showing that the foundations are NOT
broad and deep enough to sustain it.
Am / wrong to warn your Is it not
strange and inconsistent that the same
people who indicted the government for
its unpreparedness in the South African
war should now denOunce me in IAN
guage equally extravaganza because L
want to prepare you for a struggle So
serious that if we are defeated the
country will lose its place among the
great nations: a struggle which we are
invited to meet with antiquated meth
DDS and tactics?'
Adducing statistics Mr.. Chamberlain
contrasted the moderate increase of
seven and half per cent in the export
trade of Great Britain and the increas,
of thirty per cent in her population
since 1872. with the enormous increases
of trade in the United States and Ger
many. and he asked how the country
could expect to support its growing
population with its trade nract1caisy
stagnant for thirty years.
He proceeded: 'On the other hand
the protected countries which YOU have
been told and 1 myself one time be-
Heved. were going rapidly TO wreck and
ruin. have progressed Infinitely better
in proportion than ourselves, and in
stead Of as Golden believed, our re-
naming the workshop for the world we
are sending less and less of our man
ufactures abroad. whilst the protected
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