Mr. Baldwin on Agriculture On Monday at Glemham Park, Suffolk,
Mr. Baldwin made an important party speech on agriculture. Although ruling out a policy of Protection for the present, he said that it was only fair that some of the revenue from the Safeguarding duties should be used for agriculture. The key to the situation was the production of wheat. If only a portion of the old wheat acreage could be recovered the farming industry could be put on a secure basis. The dairy-farmer, the sheep-farmer and the producer of oats and potatoes would all be helped. Mr. Baldwin therefore promised that if his party came back to power it would fix a guaranteed price for milling wheat, so that wheat could be grown remuneratively on ordinary wheat land. He appealed to agriculturists for advice on fixing the price. The price, he added, must be firm for a period of years—not subject to sudden and unexpected removal as happened to the guaranteed price in the Corn Production Act. It ought to be " almost impossible " for any Government to interfere with it.
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