We entirely agree that these things depend upon the answei
to Mr. Chamberlain's question. If the nation replies as we believe it must, it will refuse to disunite the Empire by sordid tariff squabbles and by raising false hopes in the Colonies, and will reject once and for ever the monstrous notion that the work- ing men are to be made richer by taxing their bread and by the refusal to them of the right to spend their hard-earned wages to the greatest possible advantage by buying in the cheapest market. On the same day the Unionist Free-Food League issued the text of the resolution passed at a meeting on the previous Friday, a resolution which says firmly though politely that they mean to remain on guard and to do their best to withstand Mr. Chamberlain's policy,—a policy which has been well described as that of "the little loaf at home and the apple of discord in the Empire."
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