150 BRITAIN FOR THE BRITON 



At least it is certain that all wlio favour the maintenance 

 of existing fiscal conditions are sure to believe what the Board 

 of Trade tells them in respect hereto ; which is most regrettable. 



What the German Press says 



The accompanying extract from a German newspaper is 

 interesting, as it shows that even in protected Germany the 

 Eadical organs in that country recognise that the necessaries 

 of life rise considerably in Free-trade England, in spite of her 

 liberal free list, and that the increased cost of similar necessaries 

 in Germany is not due to the German tariff: — 



" The Cost of Living in England and Germany " 



" The Deutsche Tageszeitung, an influential Berlin newspaper, in 

 its issue of April I'A, 1908, publishes the following statement, 

 under the heading ' A Confession ' — 



" ' Hitherto the German Radical Press has always declared that 

 the increase in the prices of some of the necessaries of life in 

 Germany is due to the protectionist tariff, and that countries in 

 which Free-trade exists do not suffer from increased prices. We 

 now read in the Radical Kunigsberg Hariungsclie Zeitung, that 

 in England, in spite of Free-trade, the cost of the necessaries of 

 life has greatly increased in recent years, viz. on an average 3 per 

 cent, during 1906, and 5-3 per cent, during 1907 ; that is more 

 than 8 per cent, within two years. We ascurtain from this con- 

 fession, for which we are truly grateful to our Radical contemporary, 

 that the increased cost of some necessaries of life in Germany is not 

 due to our tariff, while Free-trade does not preserve England from 

 increased cost of living. We have always maintained the same 

 thing, and we presume Radicals, in view of the valuable testimony 

 of the Hariungsche Zeitung, will no longer contradict us.' " * 



What the Working Man says 



The following copy of a Tariff-reform leaflet, published a 

 short while since, bears with singular interest on the subject, 

 and as the conclusions arrived at are irrefutable, the people of 

 this country would do well not to ignore what " A Working 

 Man " has to tell them : — 



" THE WORKING MAN'S EXPENSES 



A AVeekly Budget 



" You women folk know how difficult it is to provide for your 

 families. Think what it means now all these things cost you more. 



* Monthly Notes on Tariff Reform, ]\Iay, 1908, p. 349. 



