The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-10-08
HIS MANIFESTO
ry- SECRETARY CHAMBERLAIN
PUBLISHES A PAMPHLET
T., which He States His Fiscal Pol
icy.-Derides Free Trade and De-
clares the Only Hope of the EN-
pire Is in closer Touch With
Colonies.

london, Oct. 5.-Former Colonial
Secretary Chamberlain has published a
manifesto forcibly enunciating the car
dinal features of his fiscal policy The
aggressive attitude which Mr.. Cham
berlain adopts is certain to add much
bitterness to a controversy that alre ady
RACES with vigor almost unequaled in
the history of British politics.
Mr.. Chamberlain not only reiterates
his belief that the federation of the
empire depends upon fiscal retaliation,
with its consequent taxes upon Eng
lands food, but openly classes the out
and-out Cobdenites with the "little
Englanders," whom he derides with all
the force of ridicule and argument, of
which he is such master.
His four and half pages of preface
TO the pamphlet in which G. A. Vince,
secretary to Mr.. Chamberlain tariff
organization, summarizes Mr.. Cham
berlain's tariff policy is almost equal
" divided between fervent plea on
behalf of preferential trade which is to
federate the empire, and striking dis
section of what he holds to be antiquat-
ed doctrine of Cobdenism.
Ignores BaIfour's Idea.
OF Premier Balfour's middle-road
policy, which asks only the power to
retaliate without taxing food, he makes
no mention, but the whole manifesto
and pamphlet TEEN with evidence of
his final conviction that nothing short
Of what he advocates can keep the en-
pire together and restore it's trade pres
tige to the United Kingdom. Only one
slight reference is made to his former
colleagues in the cabinet.
81 have already said," he writes,
"tnat the little Highlander free traders
care nothing for the colonies; but I am
bound to believe the imperialist free
tradres when they declare that the in
terests and union of the empire are as
dear to them as to us. But If this be
so, what answer are they going to re-
turn when our colonies ask that we
shall treat them in commercial matters
little better than the foreigner, and
when they promise reciprocal advan-
tages in return.?"
This quite refutes the rumors that
Mr.. Chamberlain contemplates a COM
promise in order to bring his program
more into line with that Of the pre-
mier. Not only does he adhere to his
taxes on wheat and meat, but through
the medium of Mr.. Vince justifies
them, and declares that they will not
take farthing from the workingman' g
family.
Keynote of Manifesto
every other nation and all our own
seli-governing colonies have refused to
accept the gospel of Golden, and yet
although they ought, according to its
dogmas, to be in the last stages of de-
preston and decline, they have grown
during the last twenty years in wealth,
population and trade and in everything
that goes to make up the greatness OF
a nation"
This is the keynote of Joseph Cham
berlains manifesto. which is today
published in the form of preface to
shilling pamphlet entitled "Mr Cham
berlains Proposals; What They Mean
and What We Shall Gain by Them"
by G. A. Vince, secretary to Mr.. Cham
berlaip's tariff organization. In view
of the vigor with which the war pam
phleteers have again come in vogue in
English politics, the publisher has ap
propriately given Mr.. Chamberlain's
procurement deep red covers, in sig.
nificant contrast with the undecided
blue-gray of Premier Balfour's treatise
on the financial question.
Mr.. Chamberlain does not mlnce
matters. With aggression he carries
war into the enemey's camp.
Those who maintain" he writes
lin spirit of blind obscurantism alb
soulute inspiration of an antIquated
doctrine will have much to explain.
His remarks are addressed 70 persons
OF all political opinions, since the ques-
tons now raised are not necessarily
matters of party politics, nor indeed is
1t likely that the issues will be uiti
mately decided on strictly party lines.