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Show H h ii With Balfour, Premier; with Salisbury and R & 1 fi ( Hiclts-Beach retired, with the great war closed, it HI &Jj 1 1 will be natural to expect that a new impetus will Ml KH k given to British trade if it can be done. Bal- Hj l,i ' four naturally is disposed to let things drift, but H ' i Mr. Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, is as ag- H 1 H ' gressive as he is unscrupulous, and with the two M r $i men who wero always thwarting and opposing B J $1 him out of the way, he is likely to push some ag- H Hi ill ' gressive commercial measures. The Rand gold HI pj J J ! will begin to flow toward England soon, and it will HwHikij P make a great deal of difference when the steady HI !jff I outgo is stopped and the current is turned back HE u fj toward England again. The great trouble is that HI fflpf' j English manufactures have not kept up with the H ;f Ifc! I world's progress and her artisans have apparently Kf ftl lost their old grip. |