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TIHE FISCAL QUESTION.
SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNER
MAN'S SPEECH.
COMMENTS BY "PALL MALL
GAZETTE."
London, December 21.
The "Pall Mall Gazette," commenting
on Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's
speech at Limehouse yesterday, says that
if the Radicals sincerely believe that the
colonies are not with Mr. Chamberlain,
their opposition to the proposed Confer
ence is inexplicable.
The same journal remarks that, al
though Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
avoided repeating the term "squalid
bonds," such phrases as "monopoly mon
gers," "tariff touts," and "shady acts"
were equally vulgar, and call for cen
sure.
STATE OF BRITISH TRADE.
AN INSTRUCTIVE BLUE-BOO.
London, December 22.
A second fiscal Blue Book has been is
sued by the Board of Trade.
The volume covers 600 pages, and
deals with the social aspects of trade
and industry, and gives comparative
data with regard to pauperism and the
unemployed question.
It also contains memoranda dealing
with the consumption of food and the
cost of living in the case of workmen's
families, and shows that 100 shil
lines will now purchase as much as joiu
shillings in 1880.
THE SUGAR TRADE.
REPEAL OF DUTY DEMANDED.
-London, December 22.
A conference of the confectionery
trades of London met yesterday and de
manded the repeal of the sugar duties,
declaring that 12,000 fewer hands were
employed in the sugar manufacturing in
dustries than in 1901, while 50,000 em
ployees were working short time.
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