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MR. BALDWIN DEFENDS HIS POLICY.

ECONOMIES NEXT YEAR":""

'I THINK THE CLOUDS ARE LIFTING IN CHINA."

As the close of a day during which many delegates to the Conservative Conference had strongly attacked the Government, the Prime 3nister at Brighton on October 8th made his first important speech since Parliament zone at the beginning of August,

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Mr. Baldwin announced that the Cabinet fully approved the policy of Mr. Amery, the Secretary for the Dominions,, in committing Britain to a prolonged stay in Mesopotamia. He also said that the Chancellor of the -Exchequer is determined to make' substantial economies in national

expenditure next year.

At the very opening of the Conference, one delegate proposed to fer back the report of the Council Because of dissatisfaction at the Govern ment's surrender to the miners and the absence of measures to deal with unemployment; and "later there were hitter complaints of the Government's failure to economise and to deal adequately with Communists.

"Mr. Baldwin said:

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

EXPENDITURE.

We are challenged as any Government * In 1930 and 1991 the tax revenue was of to-day would be challenged by a mal 1,031 millions, or 22 per head of the minority, very vociferous, who have population; this year the tax revenue is mulo no secret of their desire to unders ese millioca, or £144 (Cheers.) In mine the Constitution by revolutionary come tax has been lowered from sto threat, by industrial war, by the sup 45., the excess profita duty, the Corpora-pression of free speech, and by intimida- tioi Profit Tax, and the inhabited house tion. duty hâve disappeared; the ten duty, has

But no minority, however organised, been reduced from 13. to d., the sugar should be allowed to tyrannise over the duty from 1d. to Id., the beer duty majority. (Cheers.) The country less has been lowered to, id. a pint-flaugh than a year ago gave its verdict with ter)-and substantial reductions have

na uncertain voice, and until the coân- been made in the postal and tekphone try reverses that verdict in the usual charges.

constitutions! method, we stay where we are (Cheers).

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Of the total Budget of about 800 mil-j lions, 305 millions represents contractual The Government will employ all the payments to the holders of Government power which the law, gives them to see securities, and 30 millions represents the that all attempia to seduce the loyalty

of the troopso deal with every "at-. statutory Sinking Fund. A large pro tempt to seduce the troops or to persuade portion of that last sum is attached the troops to break their oath and to definitely "under contract.

neglect their duties the Government to specific will use the full force that the law give There are those in these days who We all have our views in which ways issues of Government Stock. Of the re them to deal with speech or action which regard the work of government a melo- the world may be made sate for peace, waining 43 millions of expenditure, not they deem after due consideration to be

of a seditious nature (Cheers.) drama or film production. But you can. There is the old method of alliances. You less than 217 millions is for statutory or

It is the duty of a Government frat not run the country on capital letters and have, on the other band, and as an ex-covered by contractual obligations and and foremost to strive for industrial headlines. One thing. I will admit-we treine alternative, some scheme aiming defnite "pledges of public payment.

pence. It is equally the duty of a Gov- are not expert in the art of advertising.at universal application and world-wide Thus in the region, of contractual and the community for protection it and ernment to respond to the demand of We are handicapped by an old-fashioned security like the Protocol, and you have statutory payments we can account for circumstances have arisen which make when in the opinion of the community. modesty. We do good, but we blush to various devices which fall between them.37 millions, or 72 per cent of the whole such protection necessary: (Loud chrers) proclaim it. We work better than we But a new conception was introduced by of our expenditure.

I wish to say nyfew words about our talk. We are not even first-lass window the German Memorandum of last Febru

own party. There are a good many, dis- dressers, but we do deliver the goods ary, and the Government lost no time these, 191 millions is accounted for by country. (Laughter.) I want to tell them There a remain as millions. Of gruntled people knocking about the (Lauger and cheers.)

in seizing upon it.

that there is no originality about that. the needs of national defence, I regard (Laughter.) They have got them in the as vital that we should maintain our Liberal Party. You can see that by the and Imperial defence.

fallen as Rat as a cold linseed poultica. Laughter and cheers.) They have it in the Labour Party, where, I think, a very interesing struggle is in course of deve- lopment.

It was the idea of an agreement between

a group of Powers interested in a parti-'forces at the level necessary for national recaption of the land, policy which has

Many people have talked about pea. sions for widows. We are giving them. One of the most prominent features incular area, not to defend each other our election campaign was the under-against another group of Powers, but to taking 'to give those pensions, and we redcemed the pledge in our first session pensions for widows, allowances for children, pensions to orphans, pensions to the aged at 65, merging them, free from restriction, into the existing scheme.

MORE HOUSES.

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One of the worst legacies of the war was the shortage of houses. We are deliver ing the houses. (Chears)

keep peace among themselves by a system of mutual profection. The idea is simple and straightforward, the difficulty has been to keep it so and to avoid the intro- duction of complicating factors. We have, however, kept steadily to the main par- pose....

A further 52 millions represents the cost of the Post Office service, which more than pays for itself. Twelve mil lions is sprat on the revenue department, and that this Egure is not excessive I de- to-day a tax revenue four times that of duce from the fact that we are collecting

1914 at less than double the cost.

I do not mind criticism myself, al- though nearly all the criticis I get is just like that of the weary mother who said to the nurse, Just go upstairs and see what Tommy is doing, and tell him not-to." (Loud laughter.}

Criticism from our own party I wei come, when it is criticism directed to

In a few months from today more than half a “million, widows and children will We make the Treaty of Mutual Guaran benefit, not from our talk hut from the tee subject as a whole to only one condi-

We have accounted for 95 per ctut. of the improvement of the party and of our prospects. I do not much care for Acta on the Statute Book. That one nication-that Genmany must join the League our national expenditure; and what con-criticism that comes from people with sure of the Unionist Party will drive cut of Nations, "Hear, hear.") As regards clusion do we draw from that-that,

bot heads and cold feet. more anxiety from the homes of the poor the treaty itself, the principles upon which though we have every intention of effect.

THE COAL SUBSIDY and introdare more security than all the we are working are clear,

We have been crit,aised, too, by a great The treaty ing economies in detail in the reasonable promises and schemes of the other parties. must be bilateral and mutually purely expenditure which is not covered by con- for our attitude over the coal crisis.

many people, usi kew we should be,

defensive in character; and framed in the tract, by statute, by the minimum re- I dislike a subsidy as much as any- spirit of the League Covenant and worked quirements of our national defence, and body in this room. The are cowardice,

the line it did it was not in close harmony with the League and by the efficiency, of our revenue, collec-it was not want of preparation-because under its guidates. Any new obligation tion; it is clear that really big economies they knew that an industrial struggle undertaken by his Majesty's Government can be achieved only if we plunge into a large scale, leaving out every other issng, would cost the country what the must be pacific and limited to the existing expenditure and let it be clearly under would set back the trade of the country, that held of statutory and contractual country to-day could but ill afford, and territorial arrangements in that area stood that spectacalar economics of that bad as it is in many places, by months which is vital to British security, that is kind can only be achieved by real sacri

and perhaps years. the frontier between Germany and her fices which would have to be spread wide popular thing for which many wrong They took the risk of doing an un- Western neighbours. ("Hear, hear.") A

ly over all classes of the community. motives would be assigned" in the hope We trust that the result will be a system. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is and in the belief that in time the country: which with the minimum of fresh commit-determined to make substantial reduc stand, that wiser counsels might prevail would learn, would think, would under ments will materially benefit this country tions in the estimates for next year and that, contrary to every expectation by diminishing the prospects of war and has been set up and over which I proto ride through what looks as though it (Cheers.) The Cabines Committee which.

this year, next year we might yet be able helping in the restoration of Europe. pose to preside will labour insistently to

I used in one speech I made earlier in this end in the months left for the pre- might be a stormy sea. (Cheers!)

I have been told that this country the year the figure of speech that this Pact Paration of the next estimates.

wants a Mussolini. "I have a great res- great morass, that gaping bog of Europe, would be the filling in of one end of a

pect for the chief Minister of a great and so it will; and when we have filled really the most important, subject we the temperantent of my own people. The I want to talk with you of what is country like Italy (cheers)--but I know that in and made it sound and secure, I have to consider, and that is the condi. English people will never tolerate a have every hope that the same principletion of our own country. Nearly 90 per dictator.. that has guided us to the point, we have reached in the West might be applied to cent of the workers of this country are the permanent pacification of Eastern employed. Europe as it is being applied to the West.

Cheers.)

Since the war, under the State schemes 394,000 houses have been built, but during the last two and a half years 100,000 bave been built without State assistance. Not caly that, but prior to 1923 less than $800,000 had been advanced to owner Occupiers under the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, nad since that date the

amor it sanctioned under that Act, as amended by

absequent legislation, amounted to over £9,000,000. (Cheers.)

Two years ago we empowered kouzl authorities to advance money to builders of new houses, whether for their own out pation or otherwise, and already loans of over £6.000.000 have been sanctioned for this purpose. (Cheers.)

Great as is, the relief which these figures suggest, the shortage continues. All the ovidence points to a large unsatisfied de zuund. It does seem a paradox that with

ousands clamearing for houses and with tens of thousands clamouring for work, we should be confronted with a shortage of bricklayers and plasterers. It is for that reason the Ministry of Health have authorised the building of houses to be erected otherwise than by brick and inor. tar for demonstration purposes, and to meet what I hope will be a temporary need. We want the public to see for

themselves the merits of these houses.

PURSUIT OF PEACE

We are working steadily for the pacifi- cation of Europe. Peace is our greatest interest.

The attempt to eliminate distrust and suspicion that has always been our policy. It is our policy to-day and it is being pursued with succoss. In my first Administration, we brought the Duwes Committed into being. Mr. MacDonald continued with energy and success that work. 4

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has taken advantage of the arrangement come to under the Dawes scheme to pusti on with the settlement of the French Deht, and the clearing away of the reparation problem has enabled an attempt to be made to deal with the question of security which has been too long waiting solution, and which has been and is still an effective har until it is settled to any future hope of success in the matter of disarmament

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UNEMPLOYMENT.

The result of unemployment, is that we are faced to day with a growing ex As you all know, in the Far East, in cras of imports which, if continued, will China, there ave been troubles which be real danger to the economic stability have gravely affected our trade and have of country which relied on foreign disturbed, I hope only temporarily, the countries and on oversens for the bulk

lose and in the main happy relations of its food. which have subsisted so long between our

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When the party wants to change its leader T will step down, but not till then.". (Cheers)

PROUD OF RANK AND FILE.

· Later, Mr. Baldwin visited the 'Domic,

said:

I don't think any Prime Minister could think more of his rank and file than I do of the rank and filo I have the people and the people of China. I think party insir on purchasing British goods do anything, and there are enough good The mere fact that millions in our bonour to lead to-day. I feel they could. the elouds are lifting.

would give an impetus to trade that

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would be felt from one ead of the count men among them to ensure that the party try to the other, and if when they cannot will be kept up to the mark, full of work There is one matter in which the party get British goods, they get Imperial and full of ideas, for the next generation are pledged to take action which is at goods, the reflex action would run round to comps, present engaging the serious and ex-the world. haustive consideration of the Cabinet Committee. I refer to the reform of the very largely localised in certain definits DRIVING WITH A PUTTER. House of Lords. (Cheers.) During the industries of importance. last ten years there have been many When men lose hope they are ready to schemes. We are carefully comparing grasp at anything, and they become re- the merits of all the schemes and hope ceptive to the wildest teaching, and ment to introduce a scheme and give their hopelessness feel that even the des before the close of the present Parlia- there are, too, among them those who in

A question which has been agitating. assent to it. ( Cheers.)

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Royal Calcutta Golf Club course at COMMUNISM... pay them before the House of Commons. That is the great evil brought by uncertain member, not unknown on the jute Tollygunge, anys the Statesman, when s problém as any other party in the troduction, is begotten of ignorance out with a putter, and proceeded to drive We are aa alive to the urgency of this employment. Communism, a foreign in market walked up to the first les armed State; but we are practical men-("Hear, of misery and there must always be a hear')--and recognise the economic dif danger until the worker has learned, as across the nallah which runs across the ficulties.

he will learn, to distinguish those who fairway about 100 yards "uhand. It Now, I think that at a meeting, of our are striving to better his lot and those appears that this member had been laid party it would be well to devote a few who are exploiting his misery for theirs, 2,000 to Ex. 200 that the feat could minutes to the subject of economy own political ends. (Cheers.)

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of this country (Cheera) And I know walked to the first toe opinion was There is no subject that lends itself that to try to check that response there divided as to his chances, and, when he Mr J. 8. Dos. mora casily to the pen of the writer of would be a concentration on our county topped his first shot into a hedge a few MrW. 8. Cuff fiction. (Laughter.) In the last five by all the alien Communists in the yards away, his stock alumped badly. Mr. Barnabaw years this country, through the efforts of world, the sweet th the different Governments that have been They have failed in the United States second, and a cher went up when her. Johnin

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