The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-08
NOT 4 PROTECTIVE TARIFF
UNlONlSTS PLAN TO FIX DUTIES
ON NEARLY ALL GOODS
NOT RAW MATERIAL.

LONDON, Dec. THE Birmingham
Daily Post tomorrow will publish an
article from inspired sources. outlining
the tariff reform proposals that are
likely to be made by the unionist gov
eminent if the unionists are success
full at the elections, prefacing it with
the remark that the country's financial
necessities are much greater than they
were in 1896, when Joseph Chamber
lain started the movement
The article continues:
1T is proposed to establish general
tariff, placing duties on PRACTICAL all
goods that are rot deemed raw mater
ial, with the object, first, of raising
revenues; second, of assisting the
home producer against foreign com
petition; third, of giving preference
to the colonies; fourth, of securing
better terms from foreign countries
and fifth, of mitigating unemploymer. [
by encouraging the home producer
1.-THE tariff will be of the simplest
possib e form, not protective in the
sense that that is understood in Ger
many and the United States. There is
no intention of having multifarisus
rays WHICH WOulU throw open the
door to parliamentary intrigues The
plan favored is to allow raw materials
duty free and to impose a five per
cent duty on partly manufactured
goods; ten percent on articles nearly
completed and 10 per cent on complete
ly manufactured goods.
slightly lower duty may be assess
ed to favor the colonies and a slightly
higher tariff against countries seeking
unduly to penalize British goods.
Foreign wheat will be liable to Il
duty of two shillings per quarter.
Flour will pay higher rate tc en-
courage home grinding, while bacon
and maize will also be excluded from
the free list Cotton and wool. will
enter free.
Such tariff it is estimated, would
produce a revnue from 16 to 20 million
pounds. If the Unionists are returned
every possible effort will be made TO
embody the new duties in the budg It
of 1910, Withholding maximum duties
for two years to permit of negotiating
agreement with foreign countries.
The Right Hon. George Wyandham,
member of the house of commons or
Dover, speaking in London tonight,
also intimated the intention of the
unlonists to propose ten percent duty
on manufacture articles AMI two
shillings on wheat.
Charles Wright NIAGARA, heao of the
Cotton Federation of Great Britain,
revealed himself as strong advocate
of free trade.
OF
the feebleness of the arguments by
those who would seriously endanger
the cotton trade by changing our fiscal
policy. In SO years Lancashire has
doubled in population, doubled It's cot
ton spinning and manufacturing mach
inery, and built up an export trade
three times bigger IN In it's home trade
through cheapness ct production Tax
food and mill requirements and our
prominence would he endangered
Protected America, where two-t thirds
Of the worlds cotton crop grows, only
exports ten per cent of her manuracr-
ured goods, against England'a - per-
cent
Hitherto other nations have dis
counted TO some extent the handicap
which protection imposes upon chem,
by working longer hours, but next year
the mills of Massachusetts aid Ger
many will by statute have working
hours reduced to nearly the same level
as England. Let the cotton industry
be imperiled and every other industry
suffers. The teeming population of
Lancashire is among the biggest con-
sumers of agricultural produce