Show PLAN TARIFF REFORM INSPIRED ARTICLE SHOWING WHAT UNIONISTS PROPOSE IF THEY WIN OUT would a cc general eral tariff ing duties on practically all good goods that are deemed raw material ton london don tho the birmingham daill dall poet post on thursday published an article froin from inspired sources outlining the tariff reform proposals that are likely to be made by the unionist govern went if it the unionists were successful 1 ai I the elections prefacing it with the remark that the country a financial necessities are much greater than they were in 1906 when joseph chamberlain started the movement the article continues it is po posed to ta establish a general tariff alaf placing ing duties on practically all goods that are not deemed raw material with the object first of raising revenues second of assisting the home producer against foreign competition third of giving prefer preference eum to col colonies onles fourth ot at securing belter better terms from fu buol eign ol countries and fifth ot of mitigating un employment by encouraging the home producer the tariff will be of the simplest elmp simp leit possible bia form not protective in the ease sense that that la Is understood in her ger many and the united states there la Is no intention of having multifarious rates which would throw open the door to parliamentary intrigues the plan favored la Is to allow raw materials duty ditty free and to impose a 5 per cent duty ditty on partly manufactured goods 10 per cent on articles artl clea nearly completed and IS ts per cent on completely manufacture cd goods there will be no variations in hah this scale in exceptional cases there may possibly be how over a slightly lower duty in favor of the colonies and a slightly higher tat tariff against colonies seeking unduly to penalize british goods A tariff framed thus it Is e estimated ti mated would produce A revenue of from rom six teen to twenty million pounds it the the unionists are returned every pom elble sible effort will be made to embody the new duties in the budget of at 1910 or at least 1911 but the maximum duties will be withheld for two years to give to negotiate commercial agreements with foreign countries |