BRITISH POLITICS.

Nelson Evening Mail, 25 November 1905, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

(Press ASSdciiition'— Bjr TeilJGf^r'^: i .

fcEAIJEIiS' SPEECHES ON .■■•:.; OHAMBEIRLAIIfISM.

TTio. ' f flftfly ,, .Jtelfegtaph, '■'• . commfeAtlng on recent speeches, says it is not the business of Mr Chamberlain to propose that th~ iiptnot? land shoujd, to t«e Colonial Conference, anttv^eclam a r.eadi> ncst» t© givg out-of^hand, pVofereiico ill. tW| f mattqi" p| >; rbrnv 'ft^ such conS^ession-, wiouln not suit some. The puper kdds that if the Chambcrlaini'tes insisted on a dutyjon corn as a condition ariteoedotit "T6 the meeting of the conference, it' would kfo difficult to utodei-stftnd how tlib Government could profitably J" Cbil 1 tinue in offiCPi

... v November 28,.. t Lord Rosebbrv, in $„ ftpegeli ,al reiizance v prcalc,t : e^. tttat tfie color n!cd li'oijla not be drawn closer by' a proposition from the Motherland,, but would resent interference. Yet Mr Chamberlain thinks that toy a. suddiou and violent dcptvrtuft» ttotn established policy, oaetiftg the l>:nv ; piro <n^ p. c^uldfion which he had -heated himself, the Empire would [emerge with the freshness of •youth. He i «hallaft|red /Mr Chamberlain to send turiff ce'mtnfesioiv era to the Bxilbhitj&»and set; if at wrt^^p.ossiU^^ prtidule,^ Iban^ible s'yi^rri*; tHJM&i wqiild reconcile the yanons iriteTesl,s tlmvolvcd. Statistics, showing that, 10 .per cent .61 jthe populathjn of tftn United Stdti?s was partially Unmplp-yfett .fttf parts of the yfeir jlrovV-d that protection \vas \ess than no remedy, for want, ftntl ci.iiployment on the land Tvoulfl be inadequate and no remedy. Cha»ly, t too,, was a mA-e palUativev T l le i,i n j om: ' ns Liberal Übv^rttftteftt n%ht do Worse ..tttAn I^revide, Cienprffl %oth \vilh funds to work out mh proto'lom'.

Lord Ilosobery, prefacing his challenge, said tnat it .Mr Cham* berlain can unite Ihe Eihbiri* by ft fiscal viftion JyMbut tiPX&'g raw '"■akl'ml nnd enly . a slight taxing ft f iy*?'d. the proposition might be worth considering. The Council of the Western Counties Division of ttoo National Union of the Conservative Constitutional Association adopted a. resolution^ M Bristol , deprec^tiol? any itetixm tending t<» .dirvidV thd party,, such as indicated by the continued use of tile terms "Balfourism," and "tjhambcrlahiisni." In view of fho imminence of a gvoieral election, all momrjiers of the party, whatever their shade of .opinion an the fiscal question, should be prepared to xinrtge themselves loyally under the Loader of the Unionist Party, and accept whatever was the dedeclared policy of the Leader, supported as he must of necessity be by the majority of his Cabinet. Mr Akers Douglas, in a speech at SalirWury, , said t&iat the Unionists w-cro agreed as. to the Inecesfeity of soine fiscal chaiige. I but could not,saettle detajls , until I the Colonial Confetencfe had spoken. ■ _ .

Sir BdwarA Clarke, K.C., speaking nt Kdiiiburgh, said .that if the unfortmißtn rianw, ".'rotalialion" were abandoned and fair trade advocated the Unionists could convince ihc great 'mass of the natic'n.