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Title: Constructive Imperialism

Author: Viscount Milner

Release Date: April 22, 2005 [EBook #15681]

Language: English

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CONSTRUCTIVE
IMPERIALISM

BY

VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.

FIVE SPEECHES

DELIVERED AT
TUNBRIDGE WELLS (OCTOBER 24, 1907)
GUILDFORD (OCTOBER 29, 1907)
EDINBURGH (NOVEMBER 15, 1907)
RUGBY (NOVEMBER 19, 1907)
AND OXFORD (DECEMBER 5, 1907)

LONDON
THE NATIONAL REVIEW OFFICE
23 RYDER STREET, ST. JAMES'S
1908

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CONTENTS

PAGE

TARIFF REFORM (TUNBRIDGE WELLS) 7

A CONSTRUCTIVE POLICY (GUILDFORD) 34

UNIONISTS AND THE EMPIRE (EDINBURGH) 50

UNIONISTS AND SOCIAL REFORM (RUGBY) 69

SWEATED INDUSTRIES (OXFORD) 88

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TARIFF REFORM

Tunbridge Wells, October 24, 1907

As this is a Tariff Reform meeting pure and simple, I am anxious not
to approach the subject in any party spirit or in any spirit of
acrimonious controversy. The question is a difficult and complicated
one, and though I am a strong Tariff Reformer myself I hope I am not
incapable of seeing both sides of the case. I certainly should have
reason to be ashamed if I could not be fair to those whom, for the
sake of brevity and convenience, I will call Free Traders, though I do
not altogether admit the correctness of that designation. My views
were once the same as theirs, and though I long ago felt constrained
to modify them, and had become a Tariff Reformer some yea