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Show HOW CHAMBERLAIN MEETS ARGUMENT. AR-GUMENT. London. Nov. 4. Joseph Chamberlain made a speech tonight to 9.000 of his fellow townsmen '.at Birmingham. , It was by far the largest audience the former colonial secretary had faced during the fiscal campaign. After dealing with conditions during the past fifty years under free trade and quoting figures to sustain his argument, ar-gument, Mr. Chamberlain commented on Cobden s position, quoting Cobden as saying that the United States would eventually abandon manufacturing and that "the workmen would go back to the land and dig and delve for us." The Americans, . however, said , Mr. Chamberlain, had" not so conceived their national destiny and did not toe-! toe-! lieve that they were created by Provi-jdence Provi-jdence to dig and delve and plow for the benefit of Great Britain. They . knew that they had resources of their , own, and behind the tariff wall they had built up their industries until they had reached a stage where, unsatisfied unsatis-fied with the extent of their own markets, mar-kets, thev were invading those of the United Kingdom. Mr. Chamberlain said that he did not blame the United States, but he appealed to Englishmen I to say whether they would adhere to . the old system or adopt another which , would prevent the American invasion. Reverting to the question of a preferential prefer-ential tariff for the colonies, Mr. Chamberlain Cham-berlain charged those opposed to hi I plans' with being "little Englanders," ' lacking in the desire tp bring the colo-; colo-; nies closer to the mother country and 1 preferring to do- more .for strangers than for their own flesh and blood. He j said that the leader? of the opposition j failed to appreciate the value of im-' im-' perial untiland only valued the unity, of the liberal party. He. instances the j jewelrv, brass, bicycle and button trades" of Birrrfingham as suffering in the dumping process. |
