Photograph of politician Joseph Chamberlain holding two cottage loaf style loaves of bread. It refers to a stunt at a 1903 political meeting in Birmingham - in response to an article in the pro-Liberal 'Daily News' which had stated that a 'tariff reform' loaf would be smaller due to increased costs of protectionism, Chamberlain displayed a 'tariff reform' & 'free trade' loaf & asked the audience if they could tell which was the smaller. Chamberlain & the loaves became part of the iconography of the tariff reform campaign & addressed concern over food prices & cost of living

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