The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-08
.EuGlAND'S PLANS
Of TARIFF REFORM
Inspired Article Which Shows
What UniOnists Propose if
They Win Out.
C0UNTRY'S FINANCIAL
NECESSITIES ARE GREAT
Intent to Assist Home Pro-
duccrs Against Foreign Com
petition Is Evident.

LONDON. Dec THE Birmingham
DAILY Post tomorrow will publish an
article from inspired sources outlining
the tariff reform proposals that are
Likely TO he made by the Uuionist gov
ernment if the Unionists were success
full at the elections. prefacing it with
the remark that the country's financial
necessities arc much greater than they
were in 1906, when Joseph Chamberlain
started tho movement.
The article continues:
Concise Statement.
cit is proposed to establish a gen.
eral tariff, placing duties on practically
all goods that are not deemed raw mate.
rial, with the object, first, of raising
revenues; second. Of assisting the home
producer against foreign competitions
third, of giving preference to colonies;
fourth, of securing better terms from
foreign countries, and fifth. of n1itigat-
ing unemployment by encouraging ths
home producer.
'FThe tariff will be Of the simplest
| possible form, not protective in tho
sense that that is understood III Ger
many and the United States. There
is no intention of having multifarious
rates which would throw open the door
| TO parliamentary intrigues The plan
favored is TO allow raw materials duty
| free and to impose > per cent duty
on partly manufactured goods, 10 per
cont on articles nearly completed and
Is per cent on completely manufactured
goods. There will be no variations in
this scale, unless IN exceptional cases,
There may possibly be, however, 3
slightly lower duty III favor of the
colonies and a slightly higher tariff
against colonies seeking unduly TO peu-
ahze British goods.
Tax ON Foreign Wheat.
Foreign wheat will be liable to a
duty of two shllliugs per quarter, with
preference to the colonies, but not the
removal of the whole duty
"Elour Will pay higher rate to en-.
courage home grinding. while bacon
and maize will also be excluded from
the free list. Important raw materials,
such as cotton and wool, viii enter
free.
"a tariff framed thus, it is esti-
mated, would produce a revenue Of
from sixteen TO twenty million pounds.
If the Unionists are returned every
possible effort viii be made TO embody
the new duties in the budget of 1910,
or at least 1911. bur the maximum
duties will be withheld for two years
to give time TO negotiate commercial
agreements with foreign countries.
Confirmatory Evidence,
The Right Hon George Wyndham,
member OF the house of commons for
Dover. speaking IN London tonight,
also iutimated the intention of the
: Uuiouists to propose 10 per cent
4 nI m
shllipgs on wheat.
Charles Wright Macara, head Of tho
cotton federation of Great Britain, re-
vcaled himself as strong advocate of
. free trade 81 have been struck, he
, said. ''by the feebleness Of the argu-
mcnts by those who would seriously
; endanger the cotton trade by changing
our fiscal policy, In fifty years Lapca-
shire has doubled in population,
doubled its cotton spinning and manu-
featuring machinery, and built up an
export trade three times bigger than
its homo trado. This enormous growth
has been maintained by the chcapuess
requisites and our pre- -emlnenee would
be endangered Protected America,
where two-thirds of the world s cot
ton crop grows, only exports 10 per
. cent of her manufactured goods, against
England IS 70 per cent
"IIitherto other nations have dis
counted to some extent the baudlcar
which protection imposes upon them
bv working longer hours, but next
wear the mills of Massachusetts and
) Germany Will. by statute, have work,
ling hours reduced TO nearly the Same
level as England, Let the cotton in
dustry be imperiled and every other
Industry suffers. The teeming popula-
ton of Lancashire arc among the big
pcst consumers of agricultural pro-
duce -