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SIR WILLTAM HARCOURT ON MR.
SIR WILLTAM HARCOURT ON MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S PROPOSALS. Sir William Harcourt, speaking at Rawtxnstall, Lancashire, insisted that the Ministry had made the Fiscal controversy a party question by refusing to allow any discussion of it except on a vote of confi- dence. After referring to the divisions in the 1 Cabinet and to Mr. Chamberlain's retirement, he aid that though they were told there were two policies, that of Mr. Balfour and that of Mr. Chamberlain, there were not really two'separate concerns. It was a game that might be described as the two-card game. They might put their money on retaliation or on a food tax, but whichever they chose to back they were pretty sure to lose. They had just had a sort of war in South Africa, and now they were to have a war of tariffs carried on with about the same sagacity and foresight that the last war was carried on with and he ventured to say that by the time they had done with it this war would cost them a great deal more than the last. They were supposed to live under a responsible Government,, but the only man in it who had a settled conviction at all had found it necessary to leave the Government. He had seen in his lifetime mil ny Governments, some bad, some good. some indifferent, but he had never seen a Government so ridicuious as this. It seemed incapable of having a mind of its own. The retaliation policy was nothing but an anti-Free Trade war and a protectionist crusade. As to Mr. Chamberlain's plan it might be gathered from the vexation he shewed the other day at Liverpool that it was not ripening very fast. Every labour leader in the House of Commons was hostile to this policy; but Mr. Chamberlain said that the representatives of the trade unions did not represent them. What business he to say anything of kind ? Mr. Chamber- lain was a most satisfactory opponent, because the answers to all he said were to be found in the very spffehes he himself delivered. But a shorter answer to his statements and arguments, and one whu h could always be conclusively proved, was tint they were not in accordance with fact. Sir Vt i;Jiani proceeded to deal fith the question of dumping, and the condition of the shipping trade, contrasted the condition of the country under Free Trade and under protection, cited statistics to shew tlx- healthy condition of oar export trade, and after indicating the work which he said lay before the party of progress, closed by reiterating that Mr. Chamberlain's proposals were injurious, and v.nuld, if carried into effect, be fatal to the Empire.
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MARKED OUT FOR MURDER.I
MARKED OUT FOR MURDER. I A startling story of the daring manner in which the assassination of certain leading .Armenian reformers was planned by the hostile Society of Alfarists has just been disclosed. Seven months ago, it is stated, the Alfarists, who have their Armenian executive headquarters at Providence, Rhode Island, unanimously decided that four men must be "removed." This might never have become known to the opposing society had it not been for a mistake in issuing the report of the convention. A branch society of Armenian revolutionists is established at Milford, U.S.A. For several years it had given its financial assistance to the Alfarists. But,disgusted at the attitude adopted by that body in certain revolutionary movements, the Milford branch went over to the Hentchag:sts about the time the convention was held in New York. The Alfarist official who was responsible for communicating reports on the society's work 10 the various branches neglected to strike the Milford body off the list, and the report of the convention thus fell into the hands of the Hentchagists. This report, with its programme of murder and violence, was immediately communicated to the Hentchagist Executive throughout the world. Four men were to be done to death, one in America, one in Switzerland, a third in England, and a fourth in Russia. The Ilentchagist society immediately took steps to defend their leaders, but all to no purpose. Of the four marked men M. Peter Gurekian, the editor of Fount/ Armenia, was shot four times in the back while walking in the streets of Boston in July. M. Nazarbek was stabbed in the back a few weeks ago in Clarans, Switzerland, while M. Sagouni has proved the third victim. For- tunately the two first attempts were unattended with fatal results, but it is feared that the Alfarist executive, irritated by their non-success, have appointed the most determined members of their society to complete the programme of "removals." The fourth man is at present attending the con- vention of the Hentchagists in London. He is a tall, heavily-built Armenian, with less pronounced features than most of his countrytuen. He knows that he is'marked for the vendetta, and describes himself as "the next man to die." The Hent- chagists are taking every precaution to guard him from danger, but he realises that nothing will turn the Alfarists from their purpose, and that sooner or later, even in spire of every care, lie may fall a prey to their vengeance.
THE HICKMAN MYSTERY.
THE HICKMAN MYSTERY. REMARKABLE SEANCE STORY. A remarkable stcry is told in the spiritualist newspaper Light on the authority of Dr. A. Wallace, of 39, Harley-street. This gentleman, it appears, arranged a spiritualistic stancr. at Mr. Hickman's residence on September 19tli. Before the sitting Dr. Wallace had procured some of Miss Hickman's jewellery, an article of clothing, and a letter written by her, and these he submitted to various mediums. There was a considerable want of unanimity in the results, but when, at the instance of a "private sensitive," a sitting was held in Miss Hickman's own room, very definite results were achieved. "We discovered," says Dr. Wallace, "that she had passul out of her body. Her mental state was sensed, but owing to various modifying conditions it was impossible to trace her on the physical plane. We were told that the body was Dot in water. After a short time the control said, 'I hear the ne\^spaper boys calling "Miss Hickman's body found." I remarked, 'Please look carefully and tell us when that takes place.' 'It is a Monday. I see October.' 'What is the date?' 'There are two figures; the first is a 1, but I cannot see the other figure clearly.' I then consulted my diary, and saw that the Mondays in October with 1 as the fi st of two figures were the 12th and 19th. Then, after a short pause, 'That is right; it is one of these Mondays.' Other discoveries were made, but while the l'gal investigation of the case is pending Dr. Wallace deems it undesirable to make them public.
NEARLY CAUSED A WAR.
NEARLY CAUSED A WAR. Mrs. Borradaile, whose death at Surbiton ia announced, took part more than forty years ago in an incident which threatened to result in war between Britan and Japan. She was one of five who, having gone out for a ride from Yokohama, omitted to dismount and prostrate themselves on meeting the powerful chief of the Satsuma tribe with his retinue. His attendants, resenting the slight, attacked the party with keen two-edged swords, and a Mr. Richardson died from his wounds. The Tycoon, from whom redress was sought, said, quite truly, that he was wholly unable to punish the formidable Satsuma chief, and a large naval force was despatched by England, which destroyed the latter's fleet, and set file to a great part of his chief town.
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MR. ASQLTrrn ON HOME TRADE.
MR. ASQLTrrn ON HOME TRADE. Mr. Asauitii, speaking at a Liberal demonstra- tion at Paisley, said he had looked in vain through 1 he long columns of oratory which had been poured forth at Liverpool during the week for an answer to the arguments that, had been again and again put fonh, and which went to the very root of Mr.Cham- berlain's scheme. He laid stress on the fact that in ail his allegations about the stagnation of British t -de Mr. Chamberlain had entirely ignored the trade, and maintained that it was manifestly untrue to assert that our export trade, when properly analysed, was either declining or stationary. In regard to foreign imports of manu- liciures, he argued that a large proportion of these s•i-called manufactures were really raw materials, which crime to tiiis country to have British labour exercised upon them, and repeated that all our imports came by way of payment either for British gunds or for British services or as interest upon i rit isii capitnl. He pointed out that the tonnage o British shipping had increased from 5,690,000 in lc7G to 10,054,000 in 1902. As to "dumping," if ftnvigncrs, under a protective tariff, were driven to try to g"t hold of our markets by dumping down at than cost price the products of sweated labour, did it not suggest that protection might not be the panacea for the disease of the industrial world? We had given the Colonies liscal autonomy, and to try to interfere ith that, would break up the Empire. The' Colonies shewed not the faintest inclination to respond to Mr. Chamberlain's appeal; and the "system of lopsided preference he proposed must lead to heart-burning in the Colonies, bitter resent- ment among our working people at home, and the gradual wearing away of the Imperial tie.
MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN.
MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Aberdeen, maintained that the stagnation of our trade was not due to defect- ive education, but was almist wholly attributable to foreign tariffs. These tariff's had to be combated, and the right course for Britain was to strengthen her holdjon the Colonial markets. Their opponents held that retaliation would not improve our position. This was absurd. In practical business the most-favoured-nation clause constituted no real defence of our trade interests; something more was required, and if the Government, plan were rejected what was the alternative course ? There was none. The time had come to warn foreign nations that unless they gave fair play to British products they must cease to enjoy the ""paralleled hospitality hitherto afforded to their imports by this country.
MR. JOHN MORLEY.
MR. JOHN MORLEY. Mr. John Morley, M.P., speaking at a Liberal meeting at Nottingham, referred to the war in South Africa and to the Education question. In regard to Fiscal policy, he wondered when the Ministerial masquerade would come to an end. He was confident that the discussion of the revolu- tionary proposals submitted to the country by Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Balfour would end in their rejection. The three countries in Europe in which the working classes were most comfortable were Great Britain, Denmark, and Holland — a.ll of them practically Free Trade countries. He wondered that men ventured to propound a. policy that might restore the misery which existed in this country before the Free Trade era. The proposals of the Protectionists were contrary to experience, reason, and social jus- tice. Retaliation, he contended, could only land us in the bogs and quicksands of Protection; there was 110 finality about it. He refused to be led away by the phantasmagoria of Empire from the funda- mental problem as to what would best make employment steady, continuous, and well remune- rated. He strongly protested against all attempts to upset that financial system which had been the pillar of our prosperity for the last two generations. Dealing with other aspects of the Ministerial policy, he characterised the present Government as the most recklessly extravagant with which we had ever been afflicted.
LEEDS FAVOURS PROTECTION.
LEEDS FAVOURS PROTECTION. At a special meeting of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, held to consider the Fiscal question, Ernest Beckett, M.P., moved a resolution express- ing the opinion that a reversal of the Fiscal policy of this country would be injurious to our trade and commerce. Colonel Harding seconded the motion. Colonel F. W. Tannett Walker moved as an amend- ment that the time had arrived when it would be wise for this country to modify its fiscal policy, the amendment being seconded by Mr. Jonathan Peate. The four speeches lasted two hours and a- half, and were most attentively listened to, but at their conclusion the audience insisted upon a divi- sion being taken at once, when for the amendment there voted seventy-six and for the original resolu- tion sixty-live. The announcement of the result was received with applause.
FARMERS AND FISCAL REFORM.
FARMERS AND FISCAL REFORM. At a Council meeting of the members of the Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture held on Tuesday at the Society of Arts Rooms, London, Mr. liider Haggard proposed that" This Council considers that the time has come for the re- consideration and reform of our present Fiscal system. It cordially welcomes the proposals sub- mitted by Mr. Chamberlain as being necessary and desirable for such reform." There were three pro- posals before the country, that of the Liberal party, one of negation; the one introduced by the Govern- ment, which had for its foundation the institution of a retaliatory tariff; and Mr. Chamberlain's pro- posal, which all must admit was drawn up with a view towards benefiting agriculture. The Govern- ment programme meant devastation, and he sincerely hoped that if Mr. Chamberlain's proposals were not accepted 110 other would be considered, for in his opinion Mr. Chamberlain's Fiscal policy was the only one likely to benent agriculture. Mr. Marriage (Chelmsford) seconded the resolution. Amend- ments were proposed by Sir E. Strachey, Mr. C. }ljdJ].tcn, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Latham, Mr. T. Eadie, Mr.Collins. Mr. Chaplin briefly spoke to the first n:< r.dmc lit, reminding the meeting that decision rested with the agricultural party of this country. It would most certainly wish for the Chamber to place it on record that should any changes in the Fiscal policy be made agriculturists should be taken with consideration. As a lifelong agricul- turist, lie thought a grave mistake would be made were not every effort made to support Mr. Cham- berlain and his policy. After considerable dis- ci;-si on the resolution was passed by an over- whelm i 11 g m a j o ri ty. Further discussion on the Fiscal policy wa. adjourned until the December meeting. M Wiiile rummaging in a. bedroom at Armagh a child found seme strychnine crystals, which he swailowed, and died soon afterwards. Methylated spirits, declared the Ramsev coroner, was responsible for the deaths of three voung women upon whom he had held inquest s. ° For thrusting a hot potato into the face of a. ladv who was passing by, a man was sentenced a-t Lambeth Police-court to fourteen days' hard labour.
I IA CAMPAIGN OF BLUNDERING.
I A CAMPAIGN OF BLUNDERING. MR. CUA^NEM. promised, in tho first speech of his campaign, that he would make his opponents work hard, and he is keeping his word. We were told by Mr. Arthur Chamberlain to expect a "raging, tearing propaganda," and every platform appearance of the Protectionist leader has borne out this description to tho very letter. The skill with which he is carrying on his missionary work is as undeniable as the unscrupuJousness of his tactics. Ho appeals one day to the manu- facturing interest, and another day to the working man; at one time he will argue that the exporfc trade is vital to the national existence, while on another occasion he will cheerfully range himself with Adam Smith in contending that the home trade if the really essential test of prosperity. When he has convinced one audience that Protectionist countries are basking in the sunshine Jf prosperity, he assures another congregatio'. of the faithful that in these countries the wc-km classes are sweated to the worst dee, and he enlarges upon the folly of allo/ing our producers to meet competition rom. such quarters. To such inconsistencies 18 he reduced in order to bolster up h8 case. SOMETIMES, indeed, his riatform excesses diverge so widely from the recorded facts that one is doubtful whether Mr. Chamberlain is really in possession of the information which entitles him to speak with any degree of authority, for ore would he reluctant to suspect h:m ot deliberately garbling and distorting the facts as recorded in official documents. When, for example, he tells us that the working man is better off in Protec- tionist countries than in England, we rub our eyes and ask whether he has studied the Board of Trade memoranda dealing with the earnings of the workers in the great industrial countries. For in that official record it is plainly set forth that with the exception of the United States, which is in a quite exceptional posi- tion, the advantage of the skilled artisan in respect to money earnings is enormously greater in England than in either Germany or France. White tho average weekly earnings of an artisan in London are the Paris skilled workman earns only 3Gs., and in Berlin the wage is :!4. Why, it may well be asked, does Mr. Chamberlain make a statement which is directly in the teeth of the results ef the investigations of the Board of Trade ? ONE is confirmed in the belief that Mr. Chamberlain has only impei fectly informed himself from the reco.nised sources by the slipshod quotation which has just brought himself into conflict with that recognised master of facts, Sir Robert Giffen. In his Glasgow speech Mr. Chamberlain stated that our imports of "manufactures had increased from £ f5tf,0C0,000 in to £149,000,000 in 1902. Now, while it is true that the Board of Trade memoranda gives the latter figure, it is passing strange that Mr. Chamberlain should have ignored the preface to the table, in which the description manufactures was highly qualified. The fact is, the figure does not pretend to apply to manufactured goods only the classification expressly says manufactured and partly manufactured goods." Why Mr. Chamberlain should not have quoted the words correctly, and why he should not have observed the warning given by the compilers of the returns, are matters which must be sought in the exigencies of a "raging, tearing propa- ganda." It is no part of his business to discuss the subject in a dispassionate manner; he is compelled to put his case in a strong light, and to this end tho ordinary methods of statisticians are obviously unsuited. Sm. ROBERT GIFFEN. however, who has no propaganda to conduct, and is merely interested to see that the controversy is properly carried on, shews that Mr. Chamber- lain's statement is wildly astray from the truth. Amongst the imported manufactures which were held up to scare the Glasgow audience are sawn timber, ready-made joinery, and so forth; and the Board of Trade remark in this connection that the proportion of this class of semi-manufactured articles, which arc the materials of further manu- factures, is high r among our imports than among our exports of these classes of com- modities. Among the "manufactures" which we import from the United States ara copper, drugs, pig-lead, leather, seed-oil, oil, paraffin, slates, stones, and crude zinc—these goods accounting for a total of £ 10,o00,000. Is it not obvious that none of these articles, with the possible exception of leather, can be dpg-cribed as a "manufacture" ? As regards leather, it is the raw material of one of our greatest industries, and not even Mr. Chamberlain dare venture to exclude it in the interest of the British curriers, having regard to the ruin which would be inflicted upon the staple trades of Northampton, Leicester, Stafford, and Bristol. NOR, in his Liverpool speech, was he any more happy in his endeavours to shew that the shipping industry ought to be ranked among the trades menaced by foreign competi- tion. Tho same odd disregard for actualities which marked his Glasgow speech has pursued him to Newcastle, to Tynemontli, and finally to the banks of the Mersey. When, for instance, he declared that the increase in British tonnage between 1890 and 1901 was he understated the figure by or.e-eighlh and had he cared to bring his figures up to date he would have had to put the true figure at 2.0(>fi,000; and if he had followed the rule adopted by most authorities in distinguishing between the relative capacity of steam and sail tonnage, he must have told his audience that ineffective carrying-power our mercantile marine has increased to an infinitely greater cxtPllt.. While under the system of subsidies France is extending her sailing tonnage, Great Britain's merchant fleet is becoming more and more a fleet of steam vessels: and. as the carrying capacity of a steamship is four times that of a sailing vessel the advantage to British owners is enormous. ALL this, of course, is only what everyone might have expected from the nature of the case. Up to last June the country was in a state of self-satisfaction with its commercial position, and there was every justification for the feeling. One recalls with amusement that as recently as IDOl, when our foreign trade was actually declining somewhat in conse- quence of the diversion of energies to South Africa, Mr. Chamberlain congratulated the country upon the healthy aspect of its com- merce. Again, the Daily Telegraph, which now echoes Mr. Chamberlain's predictions of impending ruin, told us as lately as Sep- tember, 1902, that everything was for t':e best commercially in the best of all possible worlds. Those who have to justify their sudden change of front must needs resort to so me carious exercises in oruer to perform the feat with even a passing degree of success. The explanation is that in 1902 there was no political motive for making the cheerful records of British trade belie themselves, for it had not then become so absolutely necessary to divert attention from the crying scandals of the Government policy in home and foreign affairs.
DOCTOR'S FAITHLESS FRIEND.
DOCTOR'S FAITHLESS FRIEND. In the Divorce Court, Mr. Justice Bucknill has granted a decree nisi, with costs, to Dr. Robert Jackson, of St. Helens, Lancashire, for the dissolu- tion of his marriage on the ground of the mis- conduct of his wife with his assistant and friend. Dr. Adam lirydon. It was stated that the parties were married in London in July, 1890, and that the petitioner practised in St. Helens, where he employed the co-respondent as his assistant. The first suspicion he had of his wife's conduct was through a letter from the co-respondent to respondent, which accidentally fell into the handa of a governess, and which was handed to the petitioner. In the letter an appointment was made for Preston, where it was proposed the respondent and co-respondent should stay together. A full confession of respondent resulted, and on this pro- ceedings were taken. jewer than 110 summonses have been issuel "gainst passive resisters at Reading. Sir. C. IT. igrain, whose death is announced at Lelvoir, was for twenty-seven yeafs chairman of Lloyd's Patriotic Fund. Worcestershire now has a Public-house Trust > Company, and business will be commenced with a house at Cakemore, Halesowen.