The Cambria Daily Leader

!40.RRISTOM P!CTUREDROME. At the Picturedl'omc on Monday the I ??i I: -ill -1 the h.L; was 61!ecL and the pictures shown vo:c E'xœedingl.y good, causing much :Tmscment, espociaUy their \Vives/' and Fooling their Hiis- bands/' A Pa;r of Boots/' creat-ed ¡iJuch fun. illrs. Lprrippr's Legacy ,as one of the be-s.t n]ms. "King (:p{)rge V. revipwing the tro<ps at Wool- v.:ch," "The Tcv railway." and Bir- mingham Man's Gift of a Locnmotive/' were also interestmg. The recent Boods in America," "Aero and Water Planes," A Timely Rescue," Tt'ere of tc'p ca,l interest. Those desiring a plea- sant evening in Picturela.nd should Not miss tkf, week's programme.

A motor car acclclellt, ascribed M a fifin mile an hour gale at Seaford, Lena: York, cm Sunday, in the death of Mrs. W<u'r)er, wife oi lir, H. R Wamor; who is pJa,ying the leediilw. role i" ''Ghcct Bf"('kûrs" at Lyceum Tlicati-e, New York. 3.1). Wal'l1<'r- is the son of the Jato Vtr. (harJcs Warnor, ,1"110 is wpU known :!) Swansea, anfl whoo(' daughter. MiES 'Wn!('J' ,(l,ppr!.ared at H)f 'ntoatre l(),val (then the Pt<u' 'rhcatvf) in the -IL, 0If Scarlet SaJ soane time a&o. ]

=====- PA%riPOT WM8S/' SWANSEA MAGISTRATES AN-0 SHOP 11 APPEAL. At the Swansea. Police Court on Tuesday, John Stanley Price, shop assistant, was charged with stealing an overcoat, pipe, and mumer, value -1 15s., the property of Thomas j Alkin Samuel, which had beeji hanging at the Swan Hotel, Morriston, on Thursday, March 2nd.—Annie Morris, wife of Mosc Morris, who keeps a second-hand clothes shop in Lmon- strcet, sa,id that defendant had sold the coat for 2s. A case containing letters and testim onial-, addressed to John Sumley Price, was found in the coat- puc.ket. Lat-or she handed the coat to Detective Rayes.—Detective Hayes aiTested defendant at Lsk.—Defendant said, "1 remember selling it, but I don't remember takmg it. "—Defendant now picaded guilty. The act had been done under the influence of drink, aud he ap- pealed for a chance, for the sake of his wife and children. He meant to lead a new life from now.—Chairman: Do you 'I' really mean that, or i8 it only a ma.tt.er of ntteran(',e to ease your position here to-day do mean it, sir. Payrot Words. I,- I Unairma-n: rarrot w,3riis are no good here—just soft words for the purpose of making the magistrates deaJ leni- ently. We've read your wife's appeal, and can quite understand the position of things at home. You know what the record is here that we have been read- ing about. We don't want to detail that to the public, but you know. Now, then Price, we'll give yqu a chance, that you may remember Swansea. We will bind you over in the sum of t20 to keep the peace for twelve months.

TORN TO PIECES. By Brozichitis, Whoopmg Cough, and Food Sickness. So-called "incnrabie" case cured by VENO'S HCHTMtNC COUGH CURE. I think it is terrible to see Jittle chiklren suffer from B'-oncbial troubles hecausc of some mottier'h iiiistaken ideas tli.-tt they cannot he cureci. i say that they c<m be cured, and that \euo's Ijig:htaing Cough Cure can cure them, say!-< Mrs. Thew, of 53. St. Maj'y-stroet, Southa-mpton. This Ia<Iy further writes: Last winter my nttle boy was fa.ir!y tom to pieces with acute Brorwhiris, Whooping Cough, and Food-5icknpss. Hi.s iias a very bad r-ase, a's everything I tried proved of no avaU, all food he T.ook bping immedicupt. thrown ba.ck by nts of coughing. However, cue morning I gavp him a dose of Vt-no'K Lightning Cough Cure, and oh, the relief of my mind; he improved at. once, for he kept his food down, aiid within a very few weeks he was perfectly cured. Where now was the Whooping Congh a.nd t Rrollehitis that people said could not ibe cured'? Absolutely gone, and Veno'.s 'had banished It." Veno's Lightning Cough Cure is n perfect remedy for all diseases of chest. iungH, and throat h) chiidrert or adults. Price Dld" 11 Land ,29, of all chemists.

I R E M A I -M G RAGS OF I e FOOD TAXES. SSR ALFRED OND'S BfUlUANT SPEECH I I I "TRUNCATED POLICY." Speaking ai the Public Hall, Urm- ston, Manchester, Sir Alfred Blond, Bart;, M.P., &aid— the JManchester section of our [,'roe Trade Union organisation told me Lhat you had asked Avhether I would come and t:p'eak on what I <).m afraid is by this time a weli-worn subject, I re- phed tha.t I would do so with the ;:Teatest pleasure, ior however old the controversy nia.y be, and however tired sonic of us n.t&y be oi corIÍn bng old errors, I think it is our duty, and .t must remain our duty, as icng as the protectionist poijey ot Mr. C.hambcr- Lun. in whatever disgu i:,e it iuas- querades, still forms p<ut of the policy ot a great pai-ty ui this country, to atr- t"l.ck it au<1 dcteat it wherever we can. Jt is perhaps dinicult at the present moment to gIVe, 01 to h-ave, ajiy clear ,de.a of w heic we .are in the iisca.1 con- tfov&rsy. Ycur member <,Sir rollard, M.P.; has told you in .st;ong, but not too strong, termR, that the Sy rations, the ex¡,raorduwry somer- which have been pe wormed iii ;hc i.tst few whicit bcga.n at, Hw _\lbcrt H.aJ!, traversed La.ncmhire at. Ashton-undcr-ljyna, iinislung up at Edinburgh—ii iihey did Unit-h there- have ieit bath supporters and üPP()Jl- llt.¡ of '.tafig Hctorm in a somewhat contused .state of mind and ever since (he 'i'nriS K.ptorm and t.hc rranri Heiorm kadel's have been un .ai-i .Umost daily controvcisy to under- sta.nd what their policy reaHv is. Not Easily Trapped. I The referendum proposed befcre the last general election was supposed to have carne<i j,al1cashiœ. ;Sometiow it did m/h succeed—the LaCà.shire bnu is not. ?o easily trapped. The referendum having I ailed in its objc-ct wa& cast o'n the sciap-heap shortly afterwards and the the ne<x'ssny ot tlie moment lJe.ca,nlC tne absurdity ol bhe future. Lallc.<k;lHIO was a naru nut to crack—and not unnaturally. Xeithe:' A)r. Chambo'iaiu no't- Ji.r. Bonar i-<aw nor any other Tarih' Reform speaker or writer lias, can, or ever will t'u able to nhow to the gtcat textile J!(- <iui-.try Ijow .my rorm oi mean anything to it except a lo&s in the worlds markets. Your great in- du¡-;try w<m buiit up through a.t,a wvLng t-o Kiee Trade, a.nd it owes so much oi iLs predominance to this system, that thuse w ho repieKent it in its great eent.e. wiH resist to the uttermost and to t-he hmt any attempt to damage its great interests. There W3. auotlier thing which also undoubtedly was slowly being borne on the minds ct Toty Agents and of ma-ny of my Con- servative iriends, and tha,t wa,6 that Hntidl worl;ingnwll al);oluteiy ub- je<:t'e'd to h<t.vc p!accd <n then bread, and on their meat. That being so, a via. media had to bo Ic'und, and i must confess I think a very poor cnc been found. Colonial Preference o'i the lines Air. ( ha.mberla.m had in view, ha,d some ideal b<iiiii-i it to re- eomme:id it-wrong a.s I think it was iu :ts conception, and bad as I think ,t would have been in its execution. But here is the idea.1, what is the justifica- tion, for the pure, naked protectionism of putting duties on manufa.ctujed goods to enj'ich a sma.li sec- tion of mauntacturers at tlie expenso of the British community P What reasoning would convince us. that the British manufacturing industry— more prosperous to-day than ever in its entire history—requires the assistance of protection in order to enable it to ex Ist. What. has become of all the "dead" and "dying" industries with which the Jeremiah of Birmingham frightened the hearts of the timid?. i What has become of those records of closed factories, dilapidated works, and the unemployment which was the result of our Free Trade system. There is no Tariff Reformer who can to-day deny that the enormous extent and de- velopment of British trade in the last few years has far exceeded the expecta- lions of the most sanguine business men. That argument does not answer to-day. Natton's Prosperity. I If some CM tells me that I other nations are doing better than we are, my answer is that 1 do not know of any nation w hjch, having regard to its size, population, and natural resources, is doing better than we are. Neither can 1 see why the prosperity of my neighbours is any reason \hy I should bear any grudge or jealousy toward s them. Nothings is more insane than to suggest that we can be prosperous if other people lack prosperity. It is so obvious to all those of us who are occupied in commerce to-day. The world's prosperity is every nation's prosperity, the world's depression is every nation's depression; and only those who are entirety out of touch with commerce and trade and manufacture can try to keep up the sectiona.1, national, jealousies in trade, which i consider a disgrace to a civilised com- mnnity. No, there is no argument; and the only reason; I believe, why th's' remnant of a pohcy that once was more or less complete, still remains nailed to the inast--()r as a weathercock if yon prefer it that way—is because, al- though I believe the great bulk uf the Conservative Party would gtadly dis- r'ard the remaining rags of its protec- tionist uniform, they have not the moral con rage to d<i so, for fear of ridicule. I have never thought: this ought to be a pm'tv question—it 's too important to 60 a. party question. I am g)ad to think that if the Food Taxes are not dea.d. they are nt any r:ite partiaDy bnned; and 1 should be stitt more glad to think that the whole of the undent fallacies of the protectionist economic theories which have threatened the commerce of this country, were re- legai.ed to that limbo to which they truly belong. How can this truncated policy which now holds the ne'd possibly be expected to succeed? I was reading the other day an interesting speech by Ah'. Joseph Chamberlain, made in 188o, which is very apposite. Speaking on April 28th as to the prospect when they turned to protection in any shape or form. he tsaid: "t think it i" inconceiv- able that the agricultura) interest would allow manufacturers to he protected whi!e foou imports went free. and J think it is eouaUy improbabie that the working classes of this country wil) ever again submit to the suftercings and miseries wn'ch were innicted on them by the Coru Laws to keeo up the reuta of the ]a.ndloi'ds. If that is the programme of the Tory Party, wo have only in an- swer to rccaU the nisiory ui tnosc limes when Pt'otect'on starved the poor, and the country wns bruught to the brink of revolution." Mr. ChAniberisin sa\v c}ear]y enough the idea cf uddins: to the wealth of the rich manufacturers at the ol the community <.r!(t of thG afl.jcultura.list: was an impoiysibic poiicy; yet that is. apparenHy. exactly the poucy to which Tariff Keiormers have now been committed To my mind, a rn O- "c fatal, a more unfair and unjust and more absurd pohcy was 'evo!' brought before the. British nation. I A Mystery. Apithpr dm i Mneve that the good s can be any more popular than the taxation of feed. Jt is a mystery to me why \ve should he suppo&cd to prefer to 'haYG dear boots substituted tor dear bi'pad. The'object of uli.sys- terns of protection is to raise prices. No one understands this more clearly than A! Balfour nt Edinburgh on October 4, 1904, he said: "The 'object of protection is to encour- age home industries. The means by which it aitainh that object is by the manipulation of the nscat system to raise home piices. It the home prices r.re not raised The industry is not en- couraged. If the industry is encour- aged it is by raising prices. That is protection properly undt'r&tood." I ha,ve never seen jt more lucidly stated. Prctcct]<m mean;s the raiding of prices. At the expense of whom;; Of every man, woman 'tud child in the country. For the .benefit of whom ? For the benefit of a small class of people who are producing those article; and who wu.1 levy what is nothing more or less than a tax on the privat-e citizens of the country. I have heard it stated, and ] have read it, that our Tariff Hü- formers imagine 'that duties on goods I ti .on g.OC  1,S coming into the country will not rais-e priceK. All I can is, that the whole history of every country w here a tariff exists contradicts the statement. 1 ''ould keep you here i.t proving my pro- position. but I will read a. sentence from someone who ought to know, and that is the new President of the United States, Dr. '\Yüodl'oW Wilson. In hi<< hook. "The -New Freedom," he savs: "Who;. you hny an imported article. you pay a. part of the price to the Federal Government in the form of Customs Duty. But as a rule what you buy is not the imported article, hut the domestic article, the price of which the manufacturer has been able to ra!se to a point equa) to or higher than -the price of the foreign article plus the duty. Whc o;ets the tariff tax in this case? The Government does net. The manufacturer, the American manufac- turer, gets ]t. He says that when he tannot seit goods as low as the foreign manufacturer, aIJ good Americans ought ro buy on' him. and p:)y him a tax on avery arhc!e for the privilege." That is a tarin- system. That is the vice the curse, of Tariff Reform, which: Gobden ponted out seventv years ?o. Cohden said; "Protection means, tettm? a private manufacturer sit ? the Cu&toms Ho.use and levy a Mh on every private citizen on everythirg ]ie buys.. People understood l hat. and our forefathers abolished the whole system. Thev liberated this country, and every man in this country, irom having to pay toll to private in- div!dua!s. And yet people are so blind, so ignorant, or so deluded, that they w'sh to re-impose this system without knowing that they want to do so. People who teli you ou the one hand that a ta.rin' will make things cheaper, teU you that the foreigner will pay the tax. Apparently Dr. Woodrow Wilson has not discovered that yet. Contradicting Arguments. I On the other hand, they pro- pose :i !o\v tariff, presumably in order to prevent the ioreigner paying too much at once. All their arguments contradict one an- other, for on the one hand they are going to keep the goods out, and on rhe other they arc going to get revenue from the goodx they keep out. The torei.gner wiU pay tor the goods he does not .send here; the English ma.nu- facturer ,ill lower All lus prices, and be better oS a,nd pay higher wages than !tC ever did. Rea,l)y, ,hen you put it in that short way, it seems impossible. d!at p.eople should argue these things; bat I can assure you that if you will take any ha.If-dozcn Ta.i-.iif Reform loat- tpT,s or speeches a.nd analyse them, you will lm,ve all these propositions laid down. It 1S this very rea-son which is fading the whole civilisation of the world every day more in the direction. I of casting off Tariff Reform shackles. Protection in a.ny form, once en- trenched, is cEfficuIt to dislodge: and oaturallv so. You encourage people t-o create industries, to employ lab(,Ill., under the sheltering wing: of a protec- tive tariff. When you want to reniovc- *.his tariff they come to you and say, Look at the money we have spent, and the husiness we have built up, and the peopte we employ. You cannot destroy all Hus now." They usually do not say this: they only sa,y, We cannot go on a.s we were doing, .and you must put the tariff higher." I do not know a singie country in winch on every occasion hhose who have benefitted bv tariffs have not c!a.moured for more. -There is no tarijfr in the world that has not al- ways been on the ascending scale. 1 do not know of any inia.nt industry that, under protect ion, has not always remained an infant industry—bottle fed, trust fed. tariff fed—to the end of its days..tn America they are making a great a.nd sudden stride in rhe dire'c- tion of Free Trade, and it i.s well for Lancashire and for those interested in the trade of Lancaf-bire, to fohow both the rezt.RonW.9 and the results of this '-t.ep winch Üllt'l ica is taking. Whai is one of the reasons that ha.s led the people in America to wiRh to reduce and abohsh that tahS ? The fa<-t that tney know and they icel that as they wish to become a great exporting jiatH-'n of manufactured goods in the markets of the world, they must be sble to reduce the cost of production and that becAUse the tariil rajses the cost of every stepi girder of their work.s, and every stone -),'K-1 every window, they cannot compote with a Free Trade country like England, it is that motive which has Led men who for years were hfgh-tarlo' men. to believe that in its economic policy America must make a change. At a time when they are throwing off the chains of their tarttf to enable them to compete w ith us we are asked to put on those shackles, j say it is a most im- portant consideration, of vital interest a.nd vital importance to the business men of ttns part of ti)e country. I do not care what their politics may be. Very Unsound. Another very important point I want I to place before you is this: the only argument adduced in favour of the! taxation of manufactured goods is based on the idea, that if you import something you might make yourself, you will necessarily become poor by doing so; that :s very attractive, but very un sound when you come to think abont it. When somebody asks you, Why don't you stop these goods coi;iin,, hore? you just ask hmi why they do .come. There can be only two reasons: either they are cheaper than we make ourselves; or we cannot make them' oursetves. 1 will leivo, out the latter! and take the first. Why should we re- ject buying things as cheaply as wo can. I have been'trained m nes: school wh!ch hcl'eves tn buying in! }t;he cheapest market and jn the! dearest. (A Voice: "Shame.") I am afraid ]f tim-t gentleman carries on hu sinews on any other principle; he will soon appear jn the ba-nkruptcy court. I have ne't'er yet understood the idea of creating an dc'arncss; and the whole trend of industry, and the object of our modem commercia! organisation is to be able to produce more commodities at a. Jower rate. You u) Lancashire spe:.t an immense amount of money on a ship canal. What \va.s the object-' To bring foreign goods rnore cheaply into Lancashire; and t.o ? take your goods out. But a?x'nrding to the T;i ri.n He formers you have com- mitted a great sin. Instead of impos- mg a tai-ifi', therefore, you havp only to nn up the Ship CanaC and you wi!). make dearer, andyou wij! r ei- ajiki vc)u AA-ijI thus achieve one of the great objects of Tanff Rdorm and keep tnese goods out. These pecpjp never realise one of the most elementary economic laws. and that is, that as people do not give you something for nothing, oh-iousl') it you get something from them they must take something from vou. That being admitted. obviously that country which sets in exchange for the'corn-j rEodities it exports the largest amount oi imports v-iil become the richest country, those who reafise this ahvays remain Fre? Traders. It is these ?-ho never grasi) the ver?- simple theorv that oocis pay for goods, who stifi chn? to the obsolete idon tha.t hv exriudin? and making dearer of foreign goods you can the wealth of this or anv other country. Worfd s Experience. I -me experience of the world, said Sjr Alfred, showed that wherever protection had been tried it had not been successful, and he quoted an extract from a recent article in the German Frankfurter Zeitung," complaining of the financial difficulties in which its protectionist system had plunged f Germany, and declaring that the iinan- o:ai d.mculties of the empire as veil' as of the 6ep,:rate States and communities urge. as do the poetical-economic in- fhiences of that tariff policy, more and ) more conclusively, the demolition of the system <jf protecuve duties. That," contmued the speaker, is a co:.intry that for forty years has enjoyed I'azl:ff Reform, and it is only one of a hun- dred instants I could give you that those who have enjoyed the benefits of this wonderful protective policy fail to iiud in it a solution of any of their troubles. or any of the beneficial results we are told to expect from it. Mr. Bonaj Law is fond of saying that the only way to raise wagoo is by the im- posjtion of tariSs. I should like to ask! how he explains the fact that wages have continually risen in this country !durmg the last sixty years under Free Trade. Why has it become nAces,a.ry suddenly to do by means of ta,nSs what up to now has operated under a Free Trade system. In this country m 18.50. money wages were £50 per head per annum of the working population. In 1912 they were £94 per head. It is qutte true that in the laet few years you have had a rise in pri ces which has sight;.Y exceeded the i-Lse in wages. So you have in every civilised country m the world, but in this country, at any rate, the rise in prices has not been artificially augmented, by tariSs as it has in Germany and it. America, and in France. Our Government has not been under the necessity of reducing the duties on potatoes and on meat, or of 1113 king special provisions for the people to ob- tain them as has been the case in Germany. We have Dot had to pult down the artificial endearment of articl es of food and I am glad to think that the discrepancy between the rise in wages and the rise in the cost of Hving has diminished within the last two years. Within the last two years Lthere has been an increase of jE;l;').000.000 a rear in wages paid to 1,700,000 workmen. Wh<m Mr. Bonar L:iw S:?.s you can only raise wages by the imposition of tariffs, I would ask him! how it is that wages have risen and are rising in this country under Free Trade Secondly I would like to ask how it is that wages are lower in every protected country in Europe than they are here, and why living is dearer. I !nAmertca. I How is it in America? This I question of tariffs and wages was one of the chief questions brought up at the last election, anu for that reason I have taken the trouble to extract a tew passages trom the election speeches of Dr. Woodrow Wil- son. In one of them he says the American workman is beginning to see that he was misled as to the genuine sources of prosperity. He says he wants the American workman to know that there are fewer jobs in America because of the tariffs, because the taxes limit the output of production. a,nd therefore there are hundreds of thou- sands of poor fellows out of employ- ment on account of that very thing. The labourer found that his wages did not rise with manipulation of the Tariff Duties. Doctor \Vcodrow Wlson ak.o pointed out that as a matter of fact zome of the most highly protected industries in America pa.id lower wages than the unprotected industries, while on the other hand many of the unprotected, industries paid higher wages than were paid in the highly protected industries. At the same time the prouts of the private individuals were so great that they could build new factories out of the surplus every second year. It was one of the greatest pieces of bluff and hum- bug known in the history of politics. Dr. Wilson made these speeches during his campaign, and the American people elected him as President on those speeches. The workmen he was address- ing knew whether he was speaking the facts, and it shows, as other investiga- tions have shown, that no tariff in the world ever raised wages. It is obvious why. Any increase en the expense of production must decrease consumption. The diminution of consumption must ultimately lead to reduction of output. and that must lead to Js labour being employed. Less labour empio\ed means more competition in the ioboui- market, and therefore lower wages. These things have been demonstrated and proved so often tliat one feels ashamed j to stand before an audience and repeat] them once aga':n, but we must go on repeating them to the end of this con- troversy ) I would like to point out the lack of anv sense of proportion there is. in the ideas of those who imagine that the diminution of the exclusion of manu- factured goods would really of itself be a, serious factor in our prosperity. Ac-j cording to an answer given by the Presi-: dent of the Board of Trade in the House of Commons only a few days ago. we import in a year LGO,OOO,OOO worth of articles completely manufactured and ready for consumption. The Census of Production estimate shows that we manufactured in 1907 LI,400,.000 worth of goods for consumption in Great Bri- tain—manufactured goods. If you a&sume. as you pre entitled to assume by experience, five per cent. increase per annum of our consumption, one year's increase in the consumption of bur domestic manufactured goods is more than the importation of foreign manufactures. How can anyone huiid up a !'ew heaven and a new earth on t this policy:' How can you pretend that! if ten or twenty or thirty minions worth! of these -oi-,ds did not come into the country thfn would suddenly be a revo- lution in the labour market, which would mop up iarge quantities of un- employed people, or suddenly affect very lareelv th<* manufactures oi this country? What it could do is this: It) could raise the price of a very large. amount of that 1:1,400-,000 of goods "to the British consumer. When you con- sider this matter, surely these us:ureR are sufficient to cause all thinking people at any rate, to feel that it is time the curtain was rung dm.n on this farce. The Census of Production is well worth the study of those who wish to obtain a really sea.sona.Me view of the proportions of our external trade compared with those cf our home trade. Not a Revenue Producer. You have been told that protection is a great revenue producer. It is not. I have never discovered say great revenue to be obtained by putting ten per cent. I' duty on the importation of manufac- tured goods. 1 made an estimate some ) time ago, that if they failed to do what they want, and keep these goods out, I you might squeeze out a revenue of be- tween three and three-and-a-half mil- 1 lions, which will probably cos). you a million or a million-and-a-half to collect. On the practical side of the problem we get no guidance at a.11. Time after time I have asked my Tariff Reform friends to pro- duce for our guidance one schedule of the tariff they wish us to adopt. In Germany they spent five years in pre- paring a tariff. They appointed a Com- mission which examined 2,000 expert witnesses, and they produced a very poor thing. But in this country we arc never to be told anything. We "a.sk Mr. Honar Law what manufactured goods are, and he replies that we all know. But we do not know he does not know the people of other countries do not know. There is not a tariff in the world that has been framed on the principle of taxing rnanu- .factt'red goods solely. As a matter of fact people in other countries do not' know what their own rùriiÎs mean. In America there are thousands of appeals every year to the tariff ap- praisers in prder to find out under what classification certain goods should come. These things are not a.t all simpL- they are very dimcult :'nd very important— quite apart from the question whethe:- a. tariff is good, bad; or indifferent—to the commercial community. We are I i entitled to kno'v what it is we arc to hf)ve forced upon us. <' want tc. kno'.v wh..it the articles arc, and what the amount of the tariff is to be. We want to see it set down so that we can see whether it is go.g tc ruin us or nr;t. But we get no further, ;d f do not know that we n, became the Tariff Commission ;.nd t.icd to pro- duce something, and they -%ei-y soon found that the convicting interests even of the gentlemen sitting there were so great that the Commis.sicn took refuge in generalities, because none d them would agree to have anything taxed that they wanted to buy. It is a curious position we find our- selves. in. We have nc'v ten of this raging, tearing propaganda. We have not advanced one ict? to any clea.r under.-),and;ing of the prcp's<.L; cf the protectior'ist?. The originai pro- lg;-amJ1](' h?s been al'aiidonpd. sometimes 'ev'ved. sometimes modified. Cue t section s<iys it is gone; another st.ys it. is pos?DOne<I; ctli?rs say they ?1) ''b' jto it till death us do pa't.' ?. hic'i; ,ot to it till l?,s ?l? Pa.i-t. ma&tery in ?';it d"!(:ru camp. A M,9 z?t?PI-Y ITI sor of a prophet i'l.in 1 am wo:i' Iut.v& to be I if) Our duJ. ts s'-anc! hnu. u:i- i-.haken. a.nd unsbakeable, to: the system of freedom of trade ajid exchange, and the right of the citizen to exchange the products of hjs labour where and when. he can at the best price he cum the whole world over. We do not care whether they drop this part or that of their programme: every pa.i-t is equally objectionable to us, and every part wRI remaiu so. The Free Trade Union and Lancashire will be weN. a<dvised not to relax their en'orts or to imagine the battle wün because the enemy has made what may be a strategy CMme to the rear. Until the policy which would sap -n.oT ou.iy our uattonal COMMOT-M, but, 1- maintain. the purity of our nsnionai itfe, &ud pcli't'tCal honour—not nntH tiaa policy is utterly a.i)d completely ab&D- <ione<l can tve lay aside our annour ajMi relax our enTrtt. and retire to our ca-mp- The price of liberty is eternal vigil- ance the price of freedom i& ever to be ready to continue the tight. I hav-e no doub¡¡ that you in LancashlrIB" upon whose shoulders so much of the burd)en has fallen, will remain ready to do your duty When the rest of the country lo(t k s so much to you I h&ve no doubt that ultimately we must win for truth mu.st ,in, righteousness must wm, ecOlJOmic soundness must win -NO temporary defeat would discourage me; we are marching on to a nnaj. and ulti- n<'tory, when! we can once mo'pe, ;)tter the hght is over, congratulate ourselves, tlt;il. we have maintained for c'ur chiidren sll the blessings tilai Cob- dcn ?nd Bright have h31ldÐd on to us.

Mr. Edmuiid GtMKM as Enos Lkttielf),x in tJu play of" Little Miss Llewellyn." (Camera portrait, Hc.) Nerve Strain, Lassi tude— Mr; EDMUND GWENN, the popular actor- manager now playing in "The Schoolmistress" at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, writes:— Certainly you have my permission to publish my opinion of the capital tonic and energising qualities of 'Phosferine.' The strain of two performances daily, combined with the business worries insepar- able from theatrical management, have a natural sequel to the frequent fatigue and nervous Irritation which beset one. To ward off the effects of heavy and strenuous work there is nothing better than a few doses of 'Phosferine/ which I have found dispels any feeling of languor and helps to keep one wonderfully fit."—March 6, 1913. No other medicine has received such absolute proof of its extraordnmry properties in restoring Shattered Constitutions, and. in giving back to thr prematurely aged New Life and Energy. CAUTION There is only one Phosferine-beware of illegal imitations—' do not be misled by Phosph This or Phosph Thato but get ??? ? MwtB ) B?f ? ?? !? g? E? B ? r" n ?? B ? ?? BE? ? !E? m JFSB? ? a B Bj??M B F? N?B ???? THE RER-IEDY OF' KINGS Phosfcrine has been supplied by Royai Commands  & Fo the Royat Family H M the Empress of Ruas!<t I H.M. the King of Spain H M the Queen of Spain H M the late King of Greece H.M. the Queen of Roumania. ete The 2/9 size contains nearty four times the I /I i size.

A COLD'S STOMACH. AND HOW TO KEEP IT WELL. Every motlior immediately reaJ-i ses after giving her child California Svrup oi Fig.s that this lli the ideal laxative for children. Nothing else so promptly regulates the little one's <-tomach, liver and bowels, and the children love itt taste. Do not give a child calomel, castor 0:1, or other harsh drug: giv(' Calj- fornia Syrup of Figs, .Nature's plea- sant laxative, made of luscious ripe fruit-juices. This will clear the leaded boH'els, sweeten the breath, cleanse the soar stomach, and bring back cheerruJ health in a few hour. without any sick- ness or griping. Mother-, hon id keep at hand Cab- Syrup of Figs (sod bv all It )s 'Lli,&. oiii.v re-ulart-or of' liver and b<.T.-e!s that a child needs. A little to-iT'ght 'n-ili' save a day's peevishnesa Give it either at b.?d-ti:ne or before bTCukixst. Instnictions hot!- to g;ve CaUo.rn;a. Syrup of Fig.; to children of all age,, and a!&o to adults, are printM in tha Direction? for Use wrapped round the bottle. Be exact. Ask plainly for CaM- foinia Syrup cf Figs." and look for the name and blue-ring trade-mark of the California Syrup Co., which dis- Tingnishcs the original and genuine Syrup of Figs, as prcscr bed by doctors.

lookin., !c!it -c[ a window, Mrs. Jones, wiie of the JoHy 0<x)p€r.s. Ocrkcnwc; te]': a distarcc <'f 40ti. nii to the pavem'ent, and wM f,1ta¡- injnrod.