Free trade
Found in 604 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 13 Oct 1903
Letter from Alfred Harmsworth, [later Lord Northcliffe] to WSC, denying responsibility for coverage of letter by WSC against protective tariffs in the Daily Mail.
(Untitled), 13 Oct 1903
Letter from Thomas Marlowe, Editor, Daily Mail, to WSC, apologies for coverage of letter by WSC against protective tariffs.
(Untitled), 16 Oct 1903
Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on Unionist Free Food meeting in Birmingham.
(Untitled), 18 Oct 1903
Letter from WSC to C.E.G. Webb, declining invitation to address Harrow Liberal Club [Middlesex] on the fiscal question, "while I am a Conservative Member it would be obviously improper of me to appear on a Liberal platform", setting out his "duty" as a Unionist free trader to fight the battle within his own party, 18 Oct 1903 [carbon].
(Untitled), 19 Oct 1903
Herbert Grover to WSC, giving his opinion of Lord Randolph Churchill's views on free trade.
(Untitled), 19 Oct 1903
Samuel Duncan to WSC, giving his opinion of Lord Randolph Churchill's views on free trade.
(Untitled), 20 Oct 1903
Letter from F.G. Tadman to WSC on free trade.
(Untitled), 21 Oct 1903
Letter from Wolverhampton Chamber of Commerce [Staffordshire] to WSC, on his speech to their annual dinner, asking him to avoid controversial subjects, particularly the fiscal question, upon which the Chamber was divided.
(Untitled), 22 Oct 1903
Letter from WSC to F. Willson, advocating the use of "Most Favoured Nation" treaties, rather than protective tariffs typed copy, with ms annotations by WSC.
(Untitled), 28 Oct 1903
Letter from James Berry to WSC on free trade.
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1904
Letter from Gerald H.A. Sington to WSC, sympathising with his views on fiscal policy, and his difficulties with his constituency party in Oldham [Lancashire].
(Untitled), 09 Jan 1904
Letter from 2nd Lord Dudley to WSC, offering "bed and free food" during visit to Dublin [Ireland], regretting that they held differing views on free trade, though agreeing that he was right to "fight it through to the end".
(Untitled), 09 Jan 1904
Letter from F.W. Soutter to WSC, on his MP, Henry Cust's decision to abandon the free trade cause, and to support Joseph Chamberlain's protected tariffs.
(Untitled), 09 Jan 1904
Letter from T.H. Bryant to WSC, support for courage over stand on free trade.
(Untitled), 11 Jan 1904
Letter from Lord James of Hereford [earlier Henry James] to WSC, support for campaign against protective tariffs, suggesting systematic attack on tariff reform lecturers "an ignorant, unscrupulous set of mercenaries".
(Untitled), 12 Jan 1904
Letter from P.J. O'Regan, Member New Zealand General Assembly, to WSC, support for free trade campaign, listing probable effects of Chamberlain's reforms on N.Z. trade, enclosing cutting from the Wellington Evening News, 20 Oct 1902, with account of election meeting.
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1904
Letter from Lord George Hamilton to WSC, regretting that he was unable to speak at meeting in Cardiff [Wales], explaining that while he would do what he could to help Conservative Free Traders, he was not willing to have any links with the Liberal Party.
(Untitled), 12 Jan 1904
Letter from John Burns to WSC, regrets that he was unable to chair meeting for Burns in Bermondsey, because of his friendship with the sitting Conservative MP, Henry Cust, expressing admiration for WSC's fine stand over free trade.
(Untitled), 13 Jan 1904
Letter from J.B.K. Hill, Ulster Free Trade Union, to WSC, on his forthcoming meeting in Belfast, assessing the mood of the City, which was mainly Conservative and overwhelmingly in favour of Chamberlain's scheme for tariff reform.
(Untitled), 13 Jan [1904]
Letter from Sir Francis Mowatt to WSC, congratulations on campaign over free trade, hoping to get notes on Ireland to him by the following week.
(Untitled), 13 Jan 1904
Letter from John Dumville. P.S. to the 8th Duke of Devonshire, to WSC, thanks for sending the Duke press cuttings on free trade, commenting that the free trade position was growing stronger every day.
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1904
Letter from Sir Horace Plunkett to WSC, on WSC's forthcoming visit to Dublin, regretting that the Irish Department of Agriculture could not take sides over the fiscal question.
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1904
Letter from Herbert Gladstone [later Lord Gladstone] to WSC, on possibility of electoral pacts, sending list of Liberal candidates opposed to Conservative Free Traders.
(Untitled), 15 Jan 1904
Letter from Lord George Hamilton to WSC, confirming that he was opposed to protective tariffs, and did not object to local deals with the Liberals over free trade, but he refused to "coalesce or combine with them in other matters".
(Untitled), 16 Jan 1904
Letter from Lord James of Hereford [earlier Henry James] to WSC, stating his confidence in 2nd Lord Lytton "very able - and any matter however delicate...can safely be left to him", commenting on progress of the free trade campaign, particularly By- Election success in Norwich.