Show J HOLDS TO FREE TRADE t I Britons Only Nation That Sticks < to Doctrine I ALL OTHERS REFUSE IT I I Have Grown Greatly During Last Twonty I t Years i I L Not In Last Stage oC Depression and l 2 Decline as Predicted by Followers KJ KJU lowers of Cobden 1 t II London Oct Former Colonial rSecrctiry Chamberlain has written a manifesto forcibly enunciating the car Juliuul features of his fiscal policy As thc document will not be published in the United Kingdom until lUonday JmornlnK the effect on the public and f thc press can only be estimated If Is 1 J certain however that the aggressive attitude which the Associated Press Is 1 Table to announce Mr Chamberlain adopts will add bitterness to a controversy contro-versy that already rages with a vigor nlmost unequaled in the history oC Snylish politics DERIDES COBD1DNITES Mr Chamberlain not only reiterates Tills belief that the federation of the em plre depend upon llscal retaliation upon Englands food but openly classes the out and out Cobdenitcs with the ILittle ISnsIamleis whom hew deridea he-w Ith all the force of ridicule and argu Uncnt of which he Is such a I master PLEA A FERVENT ONE His four and 1 onehalf pages preface to the pamphlet in which C A Vince y secretary to Mr Chamberlains tariff organization summarizes Mr Cham berlulns tariff policy is almost equally divided between a fervent plea on behalf I be-half of preferential trade which is to federate the empire and a striking dissection dis-section of what he holds to be the anti I itiKitnrl rlnpf rtiin nf l fnbclfinlsm I Au nn AS TO BALFOURS POLICY Of Premier Balfours middleroad policy which asks only the power to retaliate without taxing food he makes no mention but the whole manifesto and pamphlet teem with evidence of his final conviction that nothing short of what he advocates can keep the empire together and restore its trade prestige to the United Kingdom Only one slight t reference Is made to his former colleagues col-leagues in the Cabinet VIEW OF LITTLE ENGLAND III have already said he writes that the Little Englander free tradeis care nothing for the colonies but I am 1 bound to the imperialist free traders i when they declare that the interests and union of the umpire are as dear to them as to us But if this be so what p answer are they going to return when our colonies ark that we shall treat them in commerciu1 matters a little better than the foreigner and when S they promise reciprocal advantages inS in-S return 7 1 REFUTES A RUMORS RUMOR-S This quite refutes the rumors that 1 Mr Chamberlain contemplated a tom z promise In order to bring his pro 1 gramme more Into line with that of the Premier Not only docs he adhere to J his taxes on wheat and meat but I through the medium of Mr Vince Justifies p Justi-fies them and declares that they will 1 I not add a farthing to the workingmans h family j Says Chamberlain Every other nation f na-tion and all our own selfgoverning cot iI onles have refused to accept Cobdens gospel and yet although they ought p according to Its dogmas to be In the 5 last stage of depression and decline II it i they have grown during the last twenty I years in wealth population und trade q j and In everything that goes to make upS up-S the greatness of a nation i DOES NOT MINCE MATTERS 3Ir Chamberlain does not mince matters I mat-ters With aggression he carries the I war Into the enemys camp ISJ Those who maintain ho writes in a spirit of blind obscurantism the absolute ab-solute inspiration of an antiquated doctrine P J I doc-trine will have much to explain Ills remarks are addressed to persons of all political opinions since the questions ques-tions now raised are not necessarily 1 matters of party politics nor indeed Is 1 It likely that the Issues will bo ultimately ulti-mately decided on strictly party lines I lie begins by saying DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE SI I It Is difficult to believe that the results I re-sults of the Investigation will not convince S con-vince cvety Impartial man 01 the neces r1 Iilly for some reconstruction of the system I sys-tem which has remained stationary and unaltered for more than half a century I iV i J while every other policy has been modi iVVJf fled and adapted to meet modern rc f j 1 fluhI11tntJ S fontlnuintr Mr Chamberlain points I I out thai the property of the working L1 classes o has Incixased In greater proportion 5 I 1 propor-tion in the protected countries than in i 1 the United Kingdom and nays I I COLONIES CtprnnANCE 1 f I Free trade if It had ever existed I might have secured for us all thatylts J 1 Promot promised but tree Imports without free trade have brought us iI lace to face with problems which never Si entered Into Cobdenn calculation Ve S I Inow that the Idea of It united empire jS did not appeal to him and that he rc i KtirdGd J < 1 the colonies as an Incumbrunce I to be not rid of ns soon as possible J The little Inilanders Who follow his I l lead art not likely to bo moved by any z Consideration urlshiK out of our newfound new-found pride and faith In our distant S S lilnfimon But w1mt would Cobdcn have I said if 1 im had foreseen that the trades z Bunions whose existence he deprecated S would be successful In protecting labor 5 5 In a score oC waysi tending1 to increase I the rate of wagen and to raise the standard of HviiiK Would Cobdcn aw Z the represcnuithfi oC the manu lactlu > th i class ntill have maintained that S S tvhllo the manufacturer was artificially S Prevented I rom obtalnlnjr labor at the z jovest rale he ought to rest content heu the products of foreign labor un Si 4tranimclod by any regulation and legS leg-S 1 jslfttlon I I to which he has to submit un Z ucraull him In his own marlcetV COBDEX WAS CONSISTENT ji Cobl1ens scheme was at least con 4 latent It was free labor as well as 1 free Imports but free Imports com A jblncd with protected labor Is J neither eonslalent nor prolltable to any of the S paitles conrerned i Mr Chambuiluln holds that the con SJ1 t S 4 soling theory that other countries are ruining themselves by bounties and Import Im-port dulles hardly l coincides with the fact that the British exports have been practically stationary for twelve years while those of other countries have increased In-creased so rapidly that If the relative progress continues for a few years longer they will have left us far behind Dealing with the cOlonies desire for better commercial treatment Mr Chamberlain said COLONIAL RECIPROCITY un is no answer to offer them an Imperial Im-perial council which they have already refused If we eject their proposals fqr reciprocity wo shall be In great danger dan-ger of losing our present trade with them as well as tilt pi aspects of Its future expansion It i t Is 1 entirely owing to the growth of our colonial trade that the actual and heavy decline In our ox ports to foreign protected countries has been concealed in our general return Do the stern advocates of unrestricted imports consider It satisfactory that we should have nothing to bargain with and continue to be grateful for such crumbs as fall from the rich I inans table ta-ble In the shape at the best of the most favored nation clause which only gives us the benefits of arrangements previously made with sole reference to the introsta of other persons and in respect whereto we had never been consulted con-sulted Is It not childish to Ignore the fact that by bargaining on equal terms other nations have been able to promote pro-mote their special Interests and that If we also had In our hands weapons of retaliation we should piobably be able to bring the world much nearer a universal uni-versal free trade system than It has ever been since Cobdens time Our free food friends will have to be a little lit-tle more definite and more accurate FOREIGN BOUNTIES They bwc to explain why the transfer trans-fer oC taxation say from tea to bread would bo disastrous though It benefited our industries and restored them to something like the relative position which they enjoyed twenty years ago They will have to decide once for all whether foreign bounties are a blessing 01 a curse whether dumping Is a phll antroplc operation whereby foreigners are endeavoring to secure the welfare of this country or an insidious attempt to ruin our industries and obtain our markets for themselves They will not be allowed evade this question by the cheap device of abusing their opponents oppon-ents IN INTEREST OF MASSES Dealing passionately with the accusation accusa-tion that his policy Is Intended to reduce re-duce the workman and his family to starvation Mr Chamberlain writes Let them at least admit that rightly right-ly or wrongly this policy is propounded propound-ed In the interests of the masses of the I eople of the poor much more than of the rich and that those who arc responsible re-sponsible for It have earned by strenuous stren-uous endeavor In the past the right to esent the charge of neglecting the Interests In-terests of the industrial population JOSEPH CIIAMBEUIAIN Birmingham Sept 21 1 1903 CANNOT BE CONTROVERTED Mr Vlncos arguments which havp received his leaders sanction are concisely con-cisely slated They begin b ysaylng American trade and the dumping of the American surplus are minutely dealt with and are summed up as fol lows owsThe The fact stares us in the face plain and undeniable that McKlnleyism has not produced the Injurious I results which it should have produced if the economic doctrine on which our fiscal l system is based really contained < 1 the whole truth or economic science Which Is the most prudent course To treat the facts with disdain or to reconsider the doctrine |