LETTER XXII. PREFERENTIAL TARIFF 



DELHI, March i6th, 1913. 



PREPARE yourself for a rude shock, but prepare 

 also for a rapid recovery, for this dry letter is 

 meant not for you but for your brother, who 

 takes a keen interest in the subject thereof, but 

 whose present address I do not possess. 



Chitnavis, who is a typical and very perfect 

 specimen of a " Tory country squire," with his 

 invariable courtesy, gave me private notice that 

 he proposed to move in the Legislative Council 

 a resolution in favour of a preferential tariff for 

 India. The resolution reads as follows: 



RESOLUTION TO BE MOVED BY SIR 

 GANGADHAR CHITNAVIS. 



That this Council recommends to the Governor- 

 General in Council the desirability, in view of the 

 loss of opium revenue, of considering financial 

 measures for strengthening the resources of the 

 Government, with special reference to the possi- 

 bility of increasing the revenue under a system 

 of preferential tariffs with the United Kingdom 

 and the Colonies. 



Eliminating the inevitable " beginning and 

 ending," I shall endeavour to indicate the line I 

 propose to take in dealing with the resolution. 



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