Foreign Trade.

Empire tariffists have a clear right to dissent from that opinion, but it is impossible for them to ignore it. At any rate, it has emerged clearly enough from the Ottawa deliberations. Amid the Babel of rumours and advocacies, there is a middle body of opinion which says: “Get from generalities down to details, and find out what commodities (U.K. exports or exports of Dominion or colony) can be encouraged by tariff reciprocity without further impoverishing British workers, ruining valid Dominion industries, or imperilling British loans to foreign countries that pay in food and raw materials.” Is there room for such “scientific” adjustments, and can that be demonstrated by spade-work in committee? It must not be forgotten that the British Government includes men like Lord Snowden and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald.