A PLEA FOR PROTECTION.
A Mr H. Saigeant, writing to a northern exchange advocating a protective policy, says I presame that to manu facture all our imported goods we should requhe 70.U00 to B.COOO people besides 20.000 attendant laborers The collective number cc itaired In their families would be about COO,OOO. thus making altogether an addition to the population of about 300.000 (three hundred thousand) This extra population thus engaged in manufacture would bo the undoubted means of keeping our money within these islands, so that wa could use It over and over again. Take one direction alone; they would consume equal to 1,500,000 sheep yearly, besides an endless train of productions, including grain produce. Settlers would Immediately employ vastly more bands, and work at higher wages would be secured
to fie working man, because their w >rk would be profitable, and the employer would” than be encouraged. Our yet wil t sptetdand idle forests would be evelle l, and the plough teams and the harvest gatherin' would once more enliven the land.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1397, 3 November 1886, Page 3
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173A PLEA FOR PROTECTION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1397, 3 November 1886, Page 3
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