Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-03-30
ENGLAND ABOUT TO LAUNCH 4
 PROTECTIVE TARIFF WITH ALLIES

solid organs of conservative public opinion, posed the question, "Why not general tariff" It answered it's own query by declaring: Tn our opinion the time has come when the government should impose a general tariff" It went on to say that the new tariff should take the form of general ad valorem duties of 10 cent on all goods entering the country, the ad valorem being settled by a Board of Appraisers without appeal similar to the American system. When the war is over, it added, special conner cial treatment might be given to the allied nations, such as France, Italy played the game" this latter appar- ently applying to the United States in case it's policy on the blockade and armed merchantmen did not become too onerous for the Allies. It declar- ed that the need of a general tariff was now universally admitted; that income taxes had now reached max mum and should not be further in- creased, and that India and Egypt were already applying an ad valorem
 .ariff system.
 Lord Cromer, who applied the ad
 -alorem tariff to Egypt, was one of the first of the important personali- -ies to endorse the proposal for the came system in England AS an old and convinced Free Trader" he wrote,
 l should like to say that agree gen. rally with your view expressed in Why not a general tariff?' I have for long thought that the government should have introduced such a tariff It anearly period of the war. The i'm. position of indirect taxes for revenue purposes is in no way opposed to free
 rade principles.
 The Free Trade element is standing by it's guns, MT. Hirst of the Econo- hist, being one of the chief advocates of the traditional system. MT. Hirst s the biographer of Adam Smith, the 5reat pioneer of Free Trade. and he 'esents the apostasy of Manchester, md warns Premier Asquith that 1umber of his colleagues are officers ot the Free Trade Union. He adds: Protective taxes would be OD use ess during the war, CD disastrous liter the war, and (3) deeply dishon- )rable to the liberal ministry which proposed them" He expresses the ore that England will not follow the ashion of the American politician in
 ames Russell LowelPs "Bigelow 'apers":
 l go free trade thru thick and thin.
 Becaues 1t kind O rouses,
 ne folks to vote-an' keeps us in,
 Our quiet custom houses"
 Aside from the debate of the more edate journals, all the others are en- erlng into the tariff discussion. One ecalls the old saying: What Man. | hester does today, England does to- |
 orrow." The Globe discusses Man | hestertum; it's decline and fall" The | ctlon of Manchester was, it says. a staggering blow to the cause of Free |
 rade." The walls of the Free Trade l 1tadel have crumbled, it adds. and ven Manchester has turned to a pro- ective tariff system.
 The attitude of the government is waited with great interest in view I the agitation over the Manchester esolutions. The Chancellor of the Xchequer, MT. McKenna. will have ne 1lnal say as to whether an ad alorem tariff will be put in operation nd the initial tariff duties he pro- osed and carried last fall lead to the eilef that he will adopt more of the ame kind. His lieutenant, MT. Mon- agu' financial secretary of the treas ry, has given some intimation of 'hat was likely to come.
 The topic of enormous importance the adjustment of our fiscal svs- em, said MT. Montagu. Free Trad rs and tariff reformers all agree that ne old economic conditions between parts of the globe will be ltered by the war. I may say it is ot part of Liberalism not to recog- ize altered conditions and circum- tances, and to revise and perhaps