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BRITISH POLITICS.
THE CONSERVATIVE CAMPAIGN.
London, September 23.
Mr. Austen Chamberlain, M.P., opened
the Conservative autumn campaign at
Birmingham yesterday, the chief ques
tions touched upon by him being tariff
reform and land reform. The trades union
policy for a revision of the Osborne judg
ment was. he said, contrary to the con
ception of liberty, for it would be a mon
strous abuse of power if an organised ma
jority forced men, who had joined the
unions for the sake of sick pay and out
of-work pay, to support political prin
ciples that they repudiated. Foreigners
were alert to court the custom, and to
secure the trade of the overseas domin
ions, and it would be deplorable if the
next Imperial Conference were allowed to
pass without fortifying the position cf
Imperial trade.
LAND TAXATION.
London, September 23.
The landowners of the West Riding of
Yorkshire have served a writ upon the
Attorney-General to obtain a declaration
that they are not obliged in connection
with the valuation for land taxation pur
poses to ill in form 4, on the ground that
it is ultra vires.
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