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267.
With 'the approaching General Election, the A, 54S, ,
again in Juno circularised all Parliamentary candidates
with a resolution urging that the railway, be built, two
printed "ncnorcanda drawn up by the Company* and a letter
by Mount joy Jephson originally designed for Cha nborc of
Connerce, It was stated that the Jephson letter had
nothing to do with the AS, 56 but nothing was said as to
the Company. (I)
But the A. ,. 8. resolution
the commercial aspects of the situation declaring that
had developed
"the working classes of England have perhaps$ the strongest
interest in the adoption of such a policy by the British
Government $ inasmuch no it opens up now markets for
English manufactures of unlimited extent, and with this
special feature= that they will be in no dan r of being
not by those hostile protective taxes which now confront
them in most of the colonies. " (2) The A05,5, wan
necessarily quite optimistic about trade prospects in
Africa. The Society's travelling agent Frederick
Banks was also giving lectures on railways and trade in
(1) Pa l1, Minuten of mooting on lot July 16920
(2) Ib. d, -xninuton of mootia on 3rd Juno 1892,