Arizona republican., 1909-12-08
THE PROGRAM IS SIMPLE
Scheme By Which Revenue Amounting to $100,00O, : GOO Would Be Raised and Home Producer "Encour- aged" Not Protected"

London. Dec. 7.-The Birmingham Daily Post tomorrow will publish an article from inspired sources. outlin- ing the tariff reform proposals likely to be made by the unionist govern ment, if the unionists are successful al the elections. prefacing it with the remark that the country's finan- ciaI necessities are much greater than they were in 1906. when Joseph Cham berlain started the movement
 The article continues: 1t is pro- posed 10 establish general tariff du- lies on practically all .oods not deemed raw material. with the object first. of raising revenues; second, of assisting the home producer against foreign competition; third. of giving preference to the colonies: fourth. of securing better terms from foreign countries. and, firth. mitigating non- employment by encouragin the home producer.
 The tariff will be of the simplest form. not protective in the sense in which it is understood in Germany and the United States There is no intention of having multifarious rates. which throw open the door to parlia- mentary intrigues. The plan favored will allow raw material free and i'm pose ] per cent duty on partly manufactured goods. 10 per cent on articles nearly completed. and 15 per cent on completely manufactured ar .ticles. There will be no variations from this scale. unless in exceptional cases. There will possibly be, how ever, a slightly lower duty in favor of the colonies, and Q slightly higher tariff against countries seeking un- duly to penalize British goods
 Foreign wheat will be liable to a duty of two shillings per quarter. with q preference to the colonies. but not removal of the whole duty. Flour will pay a higher rate. to en- courage home grinding. while bacon. and maize also will be excluded from the free list Important raw mate rals. such as cotton and wool, will enter free
 A tariff formed thus, it is esti- mated. would produce a revenue of go. 900 O00. If the unionists are re- turned, every possible effort will be made to embody the new duties in the budget of 1910. or at latest 1911, but the maximum duties will be with held for two years. to give time to negotiate commercial agreements with foreign countries
 Charles Wright Macara. head of the Federation of Great Britain, re- vealed himself as q strong advocate of free trade: 'I have been struck" he said, by the feebleness of the arguments of those who would seri- ously endanger the cotton trade by changing the fiscal policy. In fifty years Lancashire has doubled it's pop ulatiOn. doubled its cotton spinning, its manufacturing of machinery and built up an export trade three times bigger than the home trade This enormous growth has been maintained by the cheapness of the production. Tax our food and mill requisites and our re-eminence would be endan- gered Protected America. where two thirds of the worlds cotton grows. only exports 10 per cent of it's manu- factured goods. against England's 75 per cent
 Hitherto other nations have dis counted the handicap which protec- ton imposes by working longer hours. but next year the mills of Massa- chusetts and Germany will by statute have their working hours reduced to nearly the same level as England's.'