Preferential Duties; A Council of the Empire; The State of the Navy: Address by Lord Brassey, G. C. B., Guest of the Montreal Harbour Commissioners, Mount Royal Club, 17th August, 1910 (Classic Reprint)
Preferential Duties; A Council of the Empire; The State of the Navy: Address by Lord Brassey, G. C. B., Guest of the Montreal Harbour Commissioners, Mount Royal Club, 17th August, 1910 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Preferential Duties; A Council of the Empire; The State of the Navy: Address by Lord Brassey, G. C. B., Guest of the Montreal Harbour Commissioners, Mount Royal Club, 17th August, 1910 And now i am about to tread on difficult ground. I will be scrupulously fair. At our congress in Montreal pre ference and subsidies to steamships were leading topics. Let us review the progress of events in the interval which has elapsed. Preference has been advocated for many years by Mr. Chamberlain with all the force which ...
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Excerpt from Preferential Duties; A Council of the Empire; The State of the Navy: Address by Lord Brassey, G. C. B., Guest of the Montreal Harbour Commissioners, Mount Royal Club, 17th August, 1910 And now i am about to tread on difficult ground. I will be scrupulously fair. At our congress in Montreal pre ference and subsidies to steamships were leading topics. Let us review the progress of events in the interval which has elapsed. Preference has been advocated for many years by Mr. Chamberlain with all the force which belongs to his attractive and commanding personality, and still there is hesitation. The inference is that fiscal change may be viewed under many aspects. In the Old Country it attracts the land owner and those manufacturers and traders who find it hard to meet foreign competition. It has the support of an over whelming majority in the City of London. The reversal of our fiscal policy alarms the cotton trade, the trades unions and the masses who are consumers of imported food. At the last election opinions were evenly divided in England, favorable to tarifl' reform in Ireland, against it in Wales and Scotland. Some things may be said concerning the fiscal question which are hardly controversial. If Germany has flourished under protection, Britain has flourished under free trade. Our exports of manufactures per head of the population double those of Germany. The trade of this year is a record. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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