Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1903 — ANGLO-OERMAH TARIFF ISSUE [ARTICLE]

ANGLO-OERMAH TARIFF ISSUE

Lan,downs Refuses to Admit That the British Empire Is Not aa Empire at All. London, July 15. —A white paper issued by the foreign office gives the correspondence between Great Britain and Germany in connection with the German-Cahadian tariff discussion. The general tone of the correspondence Indicates a greater willingness on the part of Germany to discuss in a friendly. way the question, after Colonial Secretary Chamberlain’s public advocacy of a retaliatory tariff policy. . - Lord Lansdowne emphasized Great Britain’s refusal to admit Germany’s right to treat Canada, or any other colony granting special tariff concessions to the mother country, as a separate customs territory to be made .to suffer by retaliation for privileges granted to the United Kingdom. „