Journal of the Society of Arts, 52 tomasSociety of Arts, 1904 |
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85 psl.
... India and the colonies were at one in demanding tariff reform . The trade of India with the colonies is quite insignificant , and no sympathy exists between these two separate branches of the Empire . India belongs to the United Kingdom ...
... India and the colonies were at one in demanding tariff reform . The trade of India with the colonies is quite insignificant , and no sympathy exists between these two separate branches of the Empire . India belongs to the United Kingdom ...
86 psl.
... India would never be granted by the British House of Commons . Nor is it easy to see what return India could make for such a concession . A good many ardent Indian patriots , however , excited by the new movement in England , are ...
... India would never be granted by the British House of Commons . Nor is it easy to see what return India could make for such a concession . A good many ardent Indian patriots , however , excited by the new movement in England , are ...
87 psl.
... India , in common with the United Kingdom , has always been faithful . Seven- eighths of the British Empire , as we ... India have been immensely stimulated by the efforts of agents from Lancashire . We are sometimes assured that England ...
... India , in common with the United Kingdom , has always been faithful . Seven- eighths of the British Empire , as we ... India have been immensely stimulated by the efforts of agents from Lancashire . We are sometimes assured that England ...
90 psl.
... India were two totally different things . They must not overlook the fact that India was governed by the sword , and was , as Mr. Maclean had said , for all practical purposes , already federated with Great Britain . As to commercial ...
... India were two totally different things . They must not overlook the fact that India was governed by the sword , and was , as Mr. Maclean had said , for all practical purposes , already federated with Great Britain . As to commercial ...
91 psl.
advantages was such that that balance was likely to inure to India's welfare or the reverse . What would happen to India if she did join the Imperial Customs Federation ? Probably she would be asked to reduce considerably her duty on ...
advantages was such that that balance was likely to inure to India's welfare or the reverse . What would happen to India if she did join the Imperial Customs Federation ? Probably she would be asked to reduce considerably her duty on ...
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55 psl. - That this conference recognizes that the principle of preferential trade between the United Kingdom and His Majesty's dominions beyond the seas would stimulate and facilitate mutual commercial intercourse, and would, by promoting the development of the resources and industries of the several parts, strengthen the Empire.
274 psl. - Is the Queen of England to be the sovereign of an empire, growing, expanding, strengthening itself from age to age, striking its roots deep into fresh earth and drawing new supplies of vitality from virgin soils? Or is she to be for all essential purposes of might and power, monarch of Great Britain and Ireland merely— her place and that of her line in the world's history determined by the productiveness of 12,000 square miles of a coal formation, which is being rapidly exhausted, and...
274 psl. - You must renounce the habit of telling the colonies that the colonial is a provisional existence. You must allow them to believe that, without severing the bonds which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain the degree of perfection, and of social and political development, to which organized communities of free men have a right to aspire.
37 psl. - The tariff of the United Kingdom presents neither congruity nor unity of purpose : no general principles seem to have been applied. The tariff...
39 psl. - But, depend upon it, your example will ultimately prevail. When your example could be quoted in favour of restriction, it was quoted largely; when your example can be quoted in favour of relaxation, as conducive to your interests, it may perhaps excite at first, in Foreign Governments, or foreign Boards of Trade, but little interest or feeling; but the sense of the people - of the great body of consumers - will prevail; and, in spite of the desire of governments and Boards of Trade to raise revenue...
147 psl. - In manufactures, a very small advantage will enable foreigners to undersell our own workmen, even in the home market. It will require a very great one to enable them to do so in the rude produce of the soil. If the free importation of foreign manufactures were permitted, several of the home manufactures would probably suffer, and some of them, perhaps, go to ruin altogether, and a considerable part of the stock and industry at present employed in them would be forced to •find out some other employment....
55 psl. - That with a view, however, to promoting the increase of trade within the Empire, it is desirable that those Colonies which have not already adopted such a policy should, as far as their circumstances permit, give substantial preferential treatment to the products and manufactures of the United Kingdom.
344 psl. - for having established, after most laborious research, the true relation between heat, electricity, and mechanical work, thus affording to the engineer a sure guide in the application of science to industrial pursuits.
59 psl. - ... duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable...
39 psl. - Take the great change in the corn laws ; it may even possibly be doubted whether up to this time you have given them cheaper bread — at best it is but a trifle cheaper than before...