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* * * * Mr. Baldwin had a clear field

on Tuesday ; there was no dissent, no contradiction ; and yet the strange fact is that such a speech as he made would have caused some Protectionists to foam at the mouth only a few months ago. He calmly spoke of a guaranteed price for home-produced wheat plus the Quota system as "far more effective than a duty on foreign wheat." Evidently the difference on Imperial economic questions between the Government and the Unionists is not really so great as is pretended. For the Government keep an open mind upon the Quota and have set all their researchers to work upon the subject, which will be discussed again at the Ottawa Conference.

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