The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-04
BALDWIN UpHOLDS. PROTECTION SIDE.
Chief Issue Upon Whether High Tariff Will Relieve
 Unemployment Situation

LONDON, Dec. 3.-(By Associated
 Press. .)-The United States, as an object lesson, comes. oftener into the z election speeches than any other country in reference to the Fordney tariff, the American shipping indus
 try and the Baldwin debt funding G settlement Perhaps the most dis , puted point is whether the high tariff has been responsible for the
 disappearance of the unemployment problem in the United States.
 Premier Baldwin up to the present 3 has not deigned to reply to the va I riou3 attacks relative to his part in r the debt funding, the latest of which , was made by Winston Churchill. Speaking in London today, MT. s Churchill declared there had been no need to act with such precipitation. ]. A tactful and wise policy carried out Nby experienced statesmen would have led to the United States being
 brought into some general scheme of European settlement, so that Great Britain would not have been in the position of the only nation compelled to pay.
 Churchill HeckIed. 2 Nr Churchill is still distinguished d as being the most heckled among the leaders. He is the object of persist ent and Vitroilic attacks and inter ruptions by the laborites. who make it a point always to invade his meet ings.
 The prime minister delivered his last important speech of the ca
 paign at Liverpool tonight to a. - assembly. He declared: T have ap- 7 neaIed to the country for a man. date, and if I get it shall eXerclse it to the fullest He reproached the liberal leaders for maintaining complete silence on the question of discrlmlnatloii 10 2 against British ships. which IS Threatened from all over the world and asserted that the British loeal for speaking was equality or op, portunity in all parts Of the wofla,
 Continuing. MT. Baldwin said: We are told that protection will rum our industries. but how is it that the Tinted States has exploited her lm- mense natural resources during gen erations of protection, until today she sustains population Of over one hundred million, with the hlgh- est standard of living achieved Tn the world?
 "I want to treat the foreigner as he treats us. until he learns to treat us a little better"
  Lloyd George opens.
 Asserting that it was not intended to tax simple articles of food, or raw materials, the prime minister went on: T propose to put tax on man ufactured goods in all cases where the importation of those goods is throwing our men out of work-a tax sufficient to meet the unfair advan- tage that the foreigner gets from currency and wages, so that our own people may have fair chance ot competing and finding livelihood
 MT. Lloyd George. speaking at Nor wich today, said that America had been much quoted by the protection ists. but in the spring of 1918 poor, broken, free-trade Great Britain had carried more than half the reinforce ments of the wealthy protectionist country across the Atlantic. This very week the United States shipping board had been explaining it's ina bility to compete with Britain, be- cause one result of the tariffs was to increase the cost of shipbuilding materials, so that ships could be built os the Clyde 25 per cent cheaper than ia America.