It is not altogether an accident, it is rather a sign of the times, that Mr. Chamberlain broached his plan of preferential tariffs, not in Parliament, but at a public meeting in Birmingham.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
Throughout the many vicissitudes of his long career, from his early years of advanced radicalism, through his breach with Mr. Gladstone over the Home Rule Bill, his subsequent junction with the Conservatives, and finally his advocacy of a wholly new policy about preferential tariffs, Mr. Chamberlain has never failed to carry every one of the parliamentary seats in Birmingham for his own adherents.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
The tariffs of everything at Bourboule and Mont-Dore depend on the month.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black