Word: protectionists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Stanley Baldwin, Conservative candidate for Bewdley, made important speeches at Glasgow and Bradford. He said that he was taking the course advocated and approved by the late Mr. Bonar Law in calling a general election. Throughout, Mr. Baldwin based his protectionist policy on empiricisms calculated to prove that his policy was the only one which was capable of ameliorating the hectic economic troubles of the day. "We know how many industries depend on partly manufactured goods and raw materials ; we shall take no step without consultation with those industries. If any monopolies result they will be monopolies at home...
...remarked that protection was useless, that the U. S. could not keep out British goods, that they would have to put a roof over the country in order to do so, and, even then, British goods would come down the chimney. In another speech he said: "The Government (Protectionist) want us to shoot Niagara. We've asked for time to consider it, but they say: 'No, jump in; you will have plenty of time to think it over between the falls and the whirlpool.'" At Criccieth in Wales, Mr. George became bitter when he referred to Conservative...
...Robert Home, at Glasgow, said: " What is the good of telling us that Free Trade won the War. It was won by the support of the finances of both France and America, both great Protectionist States, and we are still paying our debts to Protectionist countries...
Conservative Party. Premier Baldwin in outlining his Party program in an election address to his Bewly constituents made the most definite statement of his protectionist policy that he has so far uttered. He said he had come to the people to ask for relief from the late Premier Bonar Law's pledge*, because "no Government with any sense of responsibility could continue to sit with its head in its hands watching the unequal struggle of our industry or content itself with palliatives." He then explained the effect of his protectionist policy, which is a discriminatory tariff upon imports...
...Conservatives. In these circumstances the ground has been cut from under their feet. They must therefore fall back upon their capital levy plank, which again is certain to prove less attractive to the proletariat electorate than Mr. Lloyd George's unemployment insurance coupled with his anti-protectionist stand. Nevertheless predictions were made that the Liberal Party would consolidate its influence in the country at the elections. It would seem, however, considering the fact that they owe their present position as leader of the Opposition to the fortuitous circumstance of the split in the Liberal Party last October, that their...