The "Daily Telegraph's" forecast of an extension of the Customs tariff, to include the taxation of various luxuries, as a feature of the next Budget shows how far ube war has brought Great Britain beyond the fashions and controvert sies of earlier days. It is but week or two since of the Board of Trade rccommended a revision of the tariff wi view to the protection of Bri trade, after the war, against German competition; and more recently the Manches'er Chamber of Commerce rejected a proposal by its directors favouring adherence "to the policy of free trade and resisting proposals for pro'cction. This from the very nursery of free trade! The next thing we shall hear of will be an effective alien
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