15 APRIL 1905, Page 3

Meantime we cannot see that anything is altered in the

Chamberlain policy. The names have been changed, but the things remain just what they were before. The ingenious tradesman, when he finds that he cannot sell certain goods, tells his salesman to offer them in future, not as "Colonial Protectors," but as "Imperial Retaliators," and to mark them as "Slightly shop-soiled and immensely reduced "; but the nature of the articles is precisely the same. So with Mr. Chamberlain's policy. Nothing has really been abandoned or altered. It is emphatically a case of plus ca change, plus c'est la MeMI3 chose.