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REQUIEM MASS.

The China Mail.

Hong Kong, Saturday, Sept, 19, 1931.

This Tariff Issue. Almost a hundred years ago to-day, the great Disraeli, one of Britain's most astute Premiers, who had a penchant for crystal- lising thought into lasting bril liants, in a political speech said, "Free Trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.”

About the same time, the dis- tinguished Macaulay wrote, "Free Trade, one of the greatest blessings which a Government

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1931.

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which this issue is forcing. Dancing Mania.

or £4. It should really be worth' The foolishness of the Paris eclug, and Mr. Snowden ought to Similarly, the Liberal Parlia-

"dance marathon," which ended at consider the possibilities -- of mentary Party does not favour four o'clock one morning, the win-Whitehall and Somerset House an oarly General Election, but ning couple having danced for 762 week.-Manchester Guardian. one of the leaders of that Party, hours, has been imitated elsewhere.

ed for Afteen days four hours in

Sir Herbert Samuel, is said to man, so it is reported, has dane A Few Howlers.

The school examinations season be very decidedly against the one' of Berlin's "amusement has yielded its usual crop of adoption of a policy of Protec-establishments."

"howlers," some of them carrying We've all heard of the silly their own explanation of the pro- tien. And, as he is a member of

sheep who went over the pre- cess which produced them. It is the National Government. his at- cipico one after the other!-Dally easy to understand the youthful

Telegraph. titude is likely to precipitate the

confusion of mind which results in crisis. The cables now tell us

some of these gems; for instance, Free Speech of Youths.

In such statements that Shakes- that Mr. MacDonald will prob-

"The modern schoolboy and girl peare wrote the "Merry Widow," ably lend the appeal to the coun-} will break out from the confine- and that his works included try on the tariff issue. 》. ment of so-called civilisation, even tragedies, comedies, and errors, and was 10 retired As for Mr. Stanley Baldwin, it be only in the form of the that Coleridge

language they use, and parents are marfùer who took to verse-or that the leader of the Conservative frequently shocked by the crudity moet of Pope's work was written Party, we know what are his of the expressions brought home in hérole cutlets, and that Plato views on the subject. Only very from school by their young boys of was the god of the Underground. recently, speaking to a meeting seven or eight. Father, you are It in less easy to account for the à liar," and" 'Mother, you, arð extraordinary statement that s of Conservatives in South Eng-fool," is no implication of rudeness coroner in one of the King's men land he said, that the original or want of culture, and not to be who accompanies the yeomanry or construed as an attempt at the, that he is an under officer who must object of Fred Trads had long

aping of Billingsgaté, but us an obey his higher subjects. We ean- since passed away, and added, "I atavistic manifestation of the in-, not but admire the resource of the

of and directness convinced that the great necence

the pupil who wrote down "On their, work of the next Parliament will rustic whose outlook is the farm-heads" in answer to a question as yard and whose vision is nature. to where the Kings of England were he to make a great change in "In guiding the adolescent we crowned, and a similarly naive our fiscal system. I behave must firstly and unequivocally reply was given by another student

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the people of this country are come back to nature, and it would in response to the question "Ex- pay us in making this approach to plain what happens when there is the growing boy and girl, to re- an eclipse of the sun" when he learn some of the rugged frankness answered, truthfully enough, "A of the Bible and the refreshing great many people go out to see simplicity of the Garden of Eden." it."-Manchester Guardian.

So advocates Dr. Israel Feldman, late senior lecture on physiology to the London Hospital.

rapidly making up their minds not only that they have had enough of the present Govern ment (at the time of his speech the Labour Government), but enough of the present antiquated fiscal system."

Why Not A Whitehall Week?

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NEWS IN ADVTS.

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The annual meeting of St. Andrew's Society will be held on September 20.

The ss. President Taff will sdil

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The Tabaqueria Filipina nounce that the tobacco prices will reriain unchanged until Orto ber 1.

To-day's Thought.

This tariff issue has already

An imaginative, correspondent. caused France to grow anxious, excited by the Nav Weak at the and she has taken an early op. Dockyards following the Royal Air Force events at Hendon and the the country, not only needs Pro-portunity to make a protest to Aldershot tattoo, thinks that tection, but wants it also. We the League of Nations. She sub-other Government Departments are A REQUIEM MASS will be cole- brated on Tuesday, September 22 are equally well assured that the mits that a tarift, such as is be much too modest. Why, he asks, should not Whitehall have its at 8 o'clock am, sharp for the re- country neither wants nor neede ing talked about in Britain for week? Why not throw the offices pose of the Soul of Bruna Celeste (anything but a continuation of a the protection of. Industry and of the Whitehall area open to the D'Almada e Castro (Honey) at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Con-policy of Free Trade. The Home agriculture,-would-“constitute an public at a shilling or even

papers are busy with specula-infringement of the elementary pence a head? All right-thinking interested, ception, Glenenly.

people would be more tions, and the leaders of the thres rights of countries engaged in he thinks, to see the place and the political Parties are, no doubt, normal economic relations." people who stick to their desks and priming their big guns, and put-Continental, countries have since never go to sea or in the air or in the tanks, and execute the decisions ting a keen edge to their babires supported this protest:

of this great.country of ours. In this controversy. the worn We see the men and women rush- In preparation for the coming conflict which is being forced and threadbare argument has Ing down into Whitehall at dawn upon them. Those either unpre been advanced, that the nations to do the nation's work and retir

ing like a black tide late in the Business men all over the world pared or nervous of the result can only live by taking in each night when the work, is done. have of Inte been forced to study Also.. that Those of us who have any certified the economies of depression, and a jare, naturally, opposed to the other's washing.

of them have formed conflict taking place just now. tariffs ultimately lead to war, business in these offices get a good many

glimpse of them, perhaps over the this opinion that to retrench 011 Let us record here what has and that the nations are now so shoulder of tired attendants and advertisement is not necessarily to been said very recently on this inter-dependent that tariffs, in secretaries, as they do the work economize.

-Major The Hon. J. J. subject. These utterances indi- the long run, do more harm than that you and I ought to do if this

ASTOR, M.P. These arguments would were really an ideal country. Why not make a show of it and let our cate not only the strength of the good. wind, but the directions from and hold good and make telling points permanent secretaries and other to which it bloweth.

if world compétition in the variomcials endure what the probably naval and ous markets was fair, if tariff much higher mettled

A military men have to endure? barriers the world over, were Whitehall week-what an inspiring razed to the ground, and if Gov-ideal-going round and seeing high ernments undertook not to sub-elvil servants-even perhaps. a C.B.-inditing a minute or engrav can confer on a people, is in al-

sidise, directly or indirectly, cer-ing an interrogation on a dossier,

The bly game of Interport Bowl tain of their industries in the in- observing a second division clerk has been played. The Hong Kong - most every country unpopular."

fant and adult stages. We are doing the work of a first division team has justified its selection - "Expedient"-"Blessing." These

clerk or Д first division clerk spite of adverse criticism. Shang- Mr. Winston Churchill,

far from that stage to-day, and doing the work an- may be said to represent the

of two second hai are worthy losers. They played a typist doing a great game and gave the locals two schools of thought which other Free Trader. (though, be- if Britons have to contend with division clerks, or

alt uged many anxious moments in the exist to-day and yet heatedly dis- cause of his frequent change of barriers, fiscal, or otherwise, in the work of all with

machine.

match. Ferguson played 1 fine pute the subject of how best coat, his political opinions are other countries, it seems unrea-

Somerset House also ought to be game for the locals and fully de- trade and commerce muy be always at a discount to-day), in sonable to howl when Britons thrown open at a moderate charge served his position as akip. Shaw fostered. Throughout the years, the House of Commons, only last elect to establish similar bar-so that the public could see the was also a great skip and it is safe for as long as we can remember, Tuesday, concluded a speech riers for the self-preservation of the controversy has raged; the with an appeal for a declaration their industries... pendulum swinging first to the in favour of immediate protec-nWe believe with Macaulay that right and then to the left, action for industry and agriculture. "Free Trade is one of the great cording as the conditions, pre- Sir John Simon, the Liberal est blessing, which a Government set House offelals when they found D. McAlister and J. Shaw (skip).

can confer on its people," but that Landueere valued at £5,000 Hong Kong:. Clark, W. Ger- vailing at the time of the con- Peer, admitted that he had been troversy, exercised influence on forced to the conclusion, that an only when all Governments con- and Millais landscapes valued at rard, A. Hamilton, and J. Ferguson the disputants.

emergency tariff was the only fer similar blessings on their 1,000 turned out to be only worth (skip). To-day the pendulum is remedy -a negative and partial people. The times change and swinging rather more away from one, but essential at hand to. "blessing" and in the direction day for Britain's ills.

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An ardent Free Trader; in the person of the shipping magnate, Lord Inchcape, has publicly de- clared: "Under present condi- tions, I admit the expediency of à tariff to protect industry and agriculture."

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so should our attitude to folicies

change also. Pliability, rather

than rigidity, denotes strength

In such cases. Tories, of course,

of "expedient." That is, Free Mr. William Graham, Preal- Trade is being looked upon dent of the Board of Trade in the merely-as an "expedient," and tate Labour Government, how-win that the fiscal system should are in agreement with Mr. Bald-

opponents, assert that ever, very emphatically has de- the time has now come for Pro-clared that if Britain. adopted a

be changed to-day. An Emer tection Protection by means of tariff policy, other countries, by remedy for Britain's ills-may gency Tariff seems to them the

Tariffs. This is the bone of con- forcing up barriers against Bri-

be, may be not!

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tontion concerning the posses-tish goods, would do more dam-AKA

sion of which the country, ac age to her than she to them, so' From Other Pens. cording to the cables coming to that a tariff policy would" be" in!}]

hand, is to be asked to the nature of a boomerang. Mr.

decide. And that deci Graham's pronouncement may Cost of War.

spending over $800,000,000 a year on war while they are tottering on the brink of bankruptcy,' anid Mr. Lloyd George

sion the country will be be said to express fully the opin- "The nations of the world pre asked to give at a very early date ton held by the majority of the in the future October or Nov Labour Members of Parliament. ember moat likely.

“The House of Lorlis has not ex- What will be the country's depressed its opinion to-day on this cision? On the one hand, we are subject, but it is opposed to the ssured by Protectionists" "that" idea of an early General Election

To wage peace is costly, but the charge for unnecessary war;

is prodigious. Let us fight for peace Dally Telegraph..

Ten Years Ago,

[From the "Chloa Mall" of September 19, 1921.)

To-day'a dollar is worth 2,9 1/8.

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officiala in the Probate Department to say that Shanghai would have working on wills of enormous auffered a greater defeat but for amounts which boil down in the him.

end, alas! to very little, and to see

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Shanghai:-S. Marks, H. Landers,

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