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SIR WILLTAM HARCOURT ON MR.

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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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