On Saturday last Mr. Chamberlain made a speech at Sandon
Heath in which he explained his two policies with remarkable frankness. One is to unite the Empire by a preferential system. The other is the purest and most absolute Protection. His object, he declared, was to find more work for the people of this country. Our poor were getting poorer, "and mean- while work which they might do is being done by the foreigner." The foreigners are "taking the bread out of your mouths," he told his audience, "by sending their products here and re- fusing to take ours." If Mr. Balfour, as the leader of the official Unionist Party, takes no steps to repudiate this policy, but consents to it by his silence, it will be idle to pretend any longer that the party is uncommitted on the question of Pro- tection, and has merely inscribed Colonial Preference on its banners.
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