Word: protectionists
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...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. The Conservative Party is virtually split. One section supports free trade; the other a vague protectionist policy. The latter is headed by Premier Baldwin and is committed by the Bonar Law pledge to a general election. The former contains such men as Lords Derby, Robert Cecil, Salisbury, who are anxious to maintain the Administration until after the passage of the House of Lords Re-form Bill, which has been the morceau choisi of the Conservative Party for years. This Bill is designed by the Conservatives to increase the power of the Lords...
...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...
...tariff question is more important than ever before in our history and should not be made a football for designing politicians. ... I am a protectionist. I believe in the tariff. ... I believe in my soul that the American man on equal terms can work with anyone, but he cannot possibly compete with those nations which wear practically no clothes, whose wants are limited, whose only hopes are for existence and who have few ideals...