The Colorado statesman., 1923-11-17
LLOYD GEORGE. DECLARES TAR
IFF POLICIES OF ENGLAND's
PREMIER ARE FOOLISH
FRANCE IS CRITICIZED
PRIME MINISTER BALDWIN
TELLS PARLIAMENT ALLIES
TAcTls WEARY BRITAIN

London.-Prime Minister Stanley
Baldwin, in answer to the Labor mo
tion of censure in the House of Com
mons few days ago, said with ref
erence to the Ruhr and reparations sit
uation, that he had spared no pains to
let 1t be known to Great Britain's al
lies that the British people could not
continue indefinitely to maintain the
spirit necessary for cooperation if the
present situation were allowed to con-
tinue.
Mr.. Baldwin declared it might be
difficult to maintain indefinitely eff
forts to work together with allies who
made it so difficult. Il had high
hopes" he said, that when the com
munications with America began they
might really be productive of solid
progress but here, again, as often be-
fore, we found all our efforts brought
to naught, not by our own action nor
by the action of America, but by the
= action of two of our allies"
With regard to his tariff protection
program, the premier said lie did not
propose under any circumstances to
put tax on wheat, flour, cheese, but
ter, eggs or meat, including mutton. He
reserved n perfectly free hand on ev-
erything else.
Former Premier Lloyd George said
he was amazed that Mr. Baldwin had
chosen this moment for diverting at
tentiOn from the settlement in Europe.
One of the most hopeful events since
the armstice, Lloyd George declared,
was that the United States had for the
first time declared her intention to as
slst in the settlement in Europe, which
would affect unemployment infinitely
more than any tariff.
During his remarks on the tariff,
Mr.. Baldwin said that what the gov
ernment desired was Il release from
the pledge made by the late Andrew
Bonar Law to enable the government
to impose duties on manufacturers
generally for the purpose of revenue
and tariff negotiations, together with
power to impose larger duties when
the circumstances of particular in
dustries so required.
Mr.. Baldwin, laying emphasis on the
debt to America, said it meant that,
in addition to the exports formerly
sent, the English were called upon to
export sufficient goods to meet these
payments. The struggle had become
so fierce that they were driven TO
compete in exports to their own dctri-
ment.
The premier argued that they might
have a r0bundance Of exports,
and therefore it would be preferable
to develop the home markets ut the
expense of unremunerative exports,
while some contraction in imports
must tend to check the fall of Amer
lean exchange, which was telling
severely on this country by forcing up
The prices of foodstuffs and cotton
imported from America. He further
predicted that rehabilitated Germany
would be obliged to buy enormously
abroad and pay for the imports by a
similar increase in exports besides
furnishing exports for every penny of
reparations-'i she ever pays them
and he asked: "Where are those ex-
ports going Obvious to the most
open and freest market, which is the
British"
Moreover he continued, these eX-
ports might not come directly from
Germany, but in worse form-from
the cooperation of cosmopolitan fl
nanciers exploiting German labor.
Mr.. Lloyd George, answering Mr..
Baldwin, said the prime minister's s
policy was ill-considered, precipitate
and foolish. A labor member shout
ed: 1T has brought Liberal unityw
Mr.. Lloyd George flashed back:
THAT will go down in history as
the solitary achievement of this gov
,.rnment"