The Letter To The Prime Minister Very Properly Insists That
the sacrifices made and the services rendered by our fellow-subjects overseas make it necessary to pay attention to the unanimous demand for Preference made by the Prime......
The Second Resolution, That In Favour Of Preference, Is Also
in essence based on the " State of Siege " argument. The war has taught us that we must not again be at the mercy of neutrals—i.e., subject to the risk of such Powers being......
We Have Received Too Late For Our Correspondence Columns The
following letter from Sir Charles Bruce, G.C.M.G. Our readers will doubtless recall his career as a distinguished public official in the service of the Empire :— " May I, as an......
We Congratulate Sir Thomas Acland Faille Giver, And The...
Trust and the nation as the receivers, of a prinoely gift. Sir Thomas, in whose family public duty, public sympathy, and a liberal mind are the most ancient and most precious of......
At The Same Time They Realize That They Must Examine
very closely the effect of imposing duties upon articles used for manu- facturing purposes in this country, especially in connexion with our export trades and the shipping and......
The Resolutions We Have Just Quoted Were Forwarded To The
Prime Minister with a letter signed by all the members of the Committee explaining why they bad taken immediate action, and not waited till their investigations in regard to the......
We Must Strive To Get To A Point Where Being
cut off from oversee -supplies for, say, six months, or even a year, would merely mean shortage, and not the horrors of -actual starvation. Till we have reached that point, we......
If We Were Asked To Sum Up The General Result
of the Resolutions and the explanatory letter, we should answer : It is imperatively necessary that we should do something to meet the " State of Siege " argument and to make......
We Regard The Three Resolutions As Forms Of National...
Once again, we are quite prepared to admit that they derogate from the pure economic principles which give wealth to nations. In theory they make for impoverishment as against......
Even' The Third Resolution, That Which Deals With Customs...
is in reality -governed by war needs. The necessity for waking the whole population of the country share in the burden of our war expenditure has become imperative. However much......
We Mar, In Fact, Put The Matter Thus. Under A
policy dictated -by the -" State of Siege " argument, national self-sufficiency in the matter of food and munitions is the line of greatest safety. A secondary line of safety is......
Time And The Ace:dents-of War Have Shown That...
Teed- Reformers were mistaken..- Neither - had: foreseen lbw effects of the submarine; neither imagined that, though wo might keep, thocommand of the.seahethe military......
Bank Rate, T 1, Percent., Changed From 6 Per Cent.
Jan. 1§tb.......
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