82 



CHAPTER X 



Tariffs and the Price of Bread — German Methods 

 AND Effects 



ANOTHER important question dealt with in the 

 interesting Report of the Gainsborough Commis- 

 sion, might be referred to with advantage, and that is 

 German tariffs and the price of bread. 



We are considering the vital question of the poverty 

 of our people, and whatever impinges on that condition 

 is of more than passing interest to us. Moreover, we are 

 looking at this matter from our own point of view this 

 time, and as our own personal interests are involved, we 

 are going to come to our decision quite irrespective of 

 what politicians, publicists or political economists may 

 say. For the moment we cut ourselves adrift from party 

 policy and preachers of all kinds: Self-interest is at 

 stake, and we are not going to allow our judgment to 

 be biased by political considerations, or our reason be- 

 fogged by fervid faddists. 



The Gainsborough Commission have a message to 

 deHver to the British people, and we should listen to 

 what they say without bias. H there is anything in what 

 they tell us about German tariffs that we can turn to our 

 own good, we should certainly not throw our chances 

 away. 



Here are some references to the subject, which we 

 recapitulate : 



