Mr. L. C, Tipper and His Work for Empire Trade Campaign mongst the visitors to Shanghai on the P. & 0. S. Mongolia is a very fit-looking and cheery young man of 75, in the person of Mr. Lawrence Clarke Tipper, who still thinks nothing of embarking on exhaustive tours for the purpose of encouraging movements which. ho considers to be for the benefit of the British nation as a whole, He came to the Far East nominally "for the benefit of the sunshine" and, from what one gained in the course of a brief interview with him, it is typical of the man that the fact that "the joke ison him" should be almost one of the most satisfactory episodes of his trip.
Incidentally, 2 somewhat illuminating example of how little the people at Home know of the Enst, even one 80 well-informed of the world in general as Mr, Tipper.
'To talk with Mr. Tipper for a while is to make' one feel quite young, for he changes easily frore recollections of "Joe Chamberlain in his early days" to remembrances of John Bright. By profession, Mr. Tipper is a veterinary surgeon, but hho does not practice and he ' hae een associated in business with the manufacturers of the well-known Tipper brands of animal medicines, From early manhood he has been connected with almost every "or ganization advocating protection and the advancement of British trade and the latter in particular remains his great hobby in what is—although he will not admit it—his id age, Just as previously he had been to South Africa and Canada with packets of literature and a flood of oratory ready for: such oc~ casions as it could be delivered, has come to the Far East, al-thous travelling facilities do' not rive him the chance of doing all he would Like.
Associations with "Joo Mr. Tipper's present pet is the British Enipite Traders Association (Hamilton Chambers, 47/48 Borners 'Street, London, W. 1.), the members of which are pledged,' wherever possible, to give preference to the products of the British Empire and, subject to price and quality, to. encourage trade with fellow members throughout the Empire, He is by means a "rank," for, before could be pointed out, he admitted that Shanghai was not the idea} place for advocating x Britivh monopoly, but, as he insisted, "we Jo as much ae we can, Wherever British Englishman was original member, and at one time chairman, of the Fair Traders League, which finally boasted of Mr. 'Chamberlain's association, but which was before the time of the present generation, and in the early "80's he was fighting for Protection and is proud of the fact that' in John Bright's time he was able t6 pass a favourable resolution at a In 1906: ho conand up to 1913 he was a very active politician, He is: chairman of the Birmingham and Midlands Chamber of Agriculture, a member of the Worcestershire Chamber of Agriculture, ment associate many trad cintions that his yearly subscription must be a truly formidable-amount. Tt was interesting to learn from the veteran that the allotment idea hus caught on to such an extent: that now there are over a million' allotment holders at Home, who, in their mall way, are beginning. to see: the farmer's view of things. political, and Mr. Tipper believes: eventually they will have a decisive vote: in Parliament, Tt is too easy to write of this fervent British trader, for he. hue much to cay, Tt would have been better had he been able. to address. a meeting of British merchants. He now has sailed for Japan.and will be back in time to join. the.P. 0. 8. Mantua for the homeward voyage.
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