At last after months of silence, Mr. Chamberlain has again spoken on his grain of common sense of political fiscal scheme. Of course no-one with a knowledge can have paid any heed to the jteports that Mr. Chamberlain intended to drop his proposals and confess himself beaten. It was not a fiscal conform meeting which he was addressing, but a meeting of the Birmingham, Aston, and Handsworth Liberal Unionist Association; but Free Trade Unionists are rare in Bicmingham, and what few there are "prefer to keep silent rather than oppose Mr. Chamberlain, who therefore had a perfectly sympathetic audience. Indeed a; resolution in favour of mutual prote ences between ourselves and the Colonies was subsequently carried without a dissentient, and Mr. Chamberlain was full of fight. He declared with perfect truth that within twelve months the Unionist Party had been practically wou over to his
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