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Show PLAN TARIFFREFORM INSPIRED ARTICLE SHOWING WHAT UNIONISTS PROPOSE IF THEY WIN OUT. Would Establish a General Tariff, Plac Ing Duties on Practically All Goods That Are Deemed Raw Material. London. The Birmingham Dally Post on Thursday published an article from inspired sources outlining the tariff reform proposals that are likely to bo mado by the Unionist government govern-ment if tho Unionists were successful at the elections, prefacing it with tho remark that the country's financial necessities aro much greater than they wero In 1900, when Joseph Chamberlain started the movement. Tho article continues: "It Is pro posed to establish a general tariff, placing duties on practically all goods that aro not deemed raw material, with tho object first, of raising revenues; second, of assisting the homo producer against foreign competition; third, of giving preference to colonies; fourth, of securing better terms from foroli;n countries, and fifth, of mitigating unemployment un-employment by encouraging the .homo producer. "Tho tariff will be of the simplest posslblo form, not protective in tho sense that that is understood In Germany Ger-many and the United States.' Thero is no intention of having jnultlfarlrius rates which yvquld throw, open the idoor to .parliamentary Intrigues.. The plan favored IsHb allow raw 'materials duty freo'arid't'o Impose-a 6 por'-cent'ddty on partly manufactured, goods, -;L0 poV cent on articles' nearly coninloted anuY 15 pericent on completely manufactured manufactur-ed goods, Thero will be no variations : In this scale, unless In .exceptional cases. There may possibly be, 'however, 'how-ever, a slightly lower duty In favor of. the colonies and a( slightly higher tar. Ift -attlnst colonies Beeklngsunduly-Ho' penalize British,.gp9ds,. (, ivl- '-'A tariff framed hu8,'It.ls,e's'timated, would produce revenue-rof 'frftm' sixteen six-teen to twonty million pounds. If the the Unionists are returned every pos-Biblo pos-Biblo effort wHt-oe-mWe to embody the now duties in tho budgot of 1910. or at,, least 1011, -but thdi-maximum; Unties will bo withheld,. for: twp years to. give lme to negotiate 'commercial agree-ments agree-ments with'.foroigir coutitjriosf. r . |