Nov. 15.
Mu. Srayuey Barpwin's announcement that he is advising His Majesty to dissolve Parliament, hardly a year after the last general election, is a verity able thunderbolt. Even more exciting is the rapidity with which thig decision has come after the Prime Minister's first confession of belief in protection to cure unemployment, That statement was made at Plymouth at the close of October.
A day or two.afterwards, at Swansea, he was reported by Reuter as saying that he had thoroughly examined and strongly advocated a policy of protection on the ground of the necessity of protecting the standard of life in this country (Britain) particularly during the present unstable conditions in the world.
We have italicized the last sentence because it contains the clue to Mr. Stanley Baldwin's whole reasoning. The same idea reappears in his speech at Manchester on November 2, in which he developed his protective policy fully His ideal was one great Empire with free trade within its borders and every part regarding itself as one nation, one land and one home. He proposed to put a tax on manufactured goods, with special regard to those that caused the greatest amount of unemployment; to give substantial preference to the Dominions; to put no tax on wheat or meat; to investigate the best way to help agriculture and maintain the nation's tillage; to develop our own estates and our Saapire. It was an in-tegal part of his policy to devote portion of the new revenue to pushing ahead development as never. before. Wo one could say Reproduced with
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