Our sugar trade had been absolutely snookered
Lancashire Evening Post, Saturday 24 December 1904
ANALOGY FROM BILLIARDS.
MR CRAWSHAY-WILLIAMS ON MINISTERS’ PLAY.
Mr. E. Crawshay-Williams distributed billiard prizes at Adlington Reform Club, last night. Mr. Crawshay-Williams humorously observed that the Government might be described as having been playing a game of billiards. Financially they had run up a big score. The Sugar Convention had been a losing hazard, by which our sugar trade had been absolutely snookered. In South Africa they had put down the white, and were playing the yellow, which was not the game. Some of the members of the Government did not play at all. Those who visited the House of Commons told them Mr. Balfour always had his feet on the table. Mr. Chamberlain was always pushing. (Laughter and applause.)