Free trade
Found in 604 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [Jun 1903]
Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, advising him not to consult Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Leader of the Opposition over tariff reform, also on the need to build up a Free Trade Conservative Party.
(Untitled), 23 Jun 1903
Letter from Sir Edward Hamilton to WSC, congratulations on speech on protective tariffs.
(Untitled), 29 Jun 1903
Letter from J.R. McDougall to WSC, congratulations on stand against Chamberlain's scheme for protective tariffs.
(Untitled), 30 Jun 1903
Letter from WSC to the Postal Telegraph Clerks Association on the effect of adopting Chamberlain's scheme for protective tariffs [carbon].
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1903
Letter from WSC to J.H. Lawton, setting out his opposition to protective tariffs [carbon].
(Untitled), 02 Jul 1903
Letter from Colonel J. Mitford to WSC, on free trade, asking him for his alternative to Chamberlain's scheme for protective tariffs in favour of the colonies.
(Untitled), 08 Jul [1903]
Letter from S.H. Pollen to WSC, on the position of Lord Curzon in the "coming war" in the Conservative Party, suggesting that he would make a good recruit for the free trade cause.
(Untitled), 13 Jul 1903
Letter from WSC to the 8th Duke of Devonshire, setting out case for debate on free trade [ms copy in WSC's hand] Part pub WSC II, p.67, CV II, Part 1, p.211.
(Untitled), 13 Jul 1903
Letter from Sir John Dickson-Poynder to WSC, congratulations on letter in The Times, on free trade.
(Untitled), 13 Jul 1903
Letter from G.S. Pawle to WSC on free trade.
(Untitled), 13 Jul 1903
Letter from Colonel J. Mitford to WSC, supporting Joseph Chamberlain's scheme for Imperial preferential tariffs.
(Untitled), 14 Jul 1903
Letter from WSC to Sir John Dickson-Poynder, offering sympathy on illness, advising him to take a complete rest, also on inauguration of the Unionist Free Food League, and electoral prospects, expressing his own preference for a "central" government under the 8th Duke of Devonshire [carbon].
(Untitled), 14 Jul 1903
Letter from WSC to Colonel J. Mitford on free trade, particularly the question of how to arrive at a system of free trade if foreign countries refused to accept it [carbon].
(Untitled), 14 Jul [1903]
Letter from Lord Goschen to WSC on the formation of the Unionist Free Food League.
(Untitled), 15 Jul [1903]
Letter from Sir Francis Mowatt to WSC on free trade.
(Untitled), 16 Jul 1903
Letter from Frank Cowie to WSC, on Indian attitudes to free trade.
(Untitled), 17 Jul 1903
R.R. Millard, Postal Clerks' Association to WSC, on opposition to preferential tariffs, which would mean a rise in the cost of living.
(Untitled), 18 Jul 1903
Liberal Unionist Association list of publications for and against free trade.
(Untitled), 23 Jul 1903
Letter from T.R.R. Chambers to WSC, on his opposition to preferential tariffs.
(Untitled), 24 Jul 1903
Letter from Sir Herbert Maxwell to WSC on his support for Chamberlain's scheme for Imperial preferential tariffs.
(Untitled), 25 Jul 1903
Letter from Sir Michael Hicks Beach [later Lord St Aldwyn] to WSC, suggesting question to be put to Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, asking whether representatives of Canada had expressed the opinion that Britain was not sufficiently protecting the Empire against German discrimination and that Britain should retaliate by imposing duties on German goods.
(Untitled), 30 Jul 1903
Letter from Andrew Hogg, Edinburgh Conservative Working Mens' Association to WSC, cancelling his speech to the Association on 11 November because of his opposition to Chamberlain's tariff reforms.
(Untitled), 04 Aug 1903
Letter from WSC to Andrew Hogg, Edinburgh Conservative Working Mens' Association, on cancellation of speaking engagement, commenting on intolerance and prejudice among Conservatives in Edinburgh on the question of fiscal policy preventing them from discussing the subject freely [ts copy].
(Untitled), 30 Jul 1903
Letter from W.J. Willis to WSC, asking how the introduction of preferential tariffs would raise prices in Britain and why Britain should not adopt preferential tariffs while other countries did so.
(Untitled), 05 Aug 1903
Letter from J. Moore Bailey to WSC on free trade.