ANOTHER BOMB INTO THE FREETRADE CAMP

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1669, 22 September 1887, Page 2

ANOTHER BOMB INTO THE FREETRADE CAMP

TO TUK EDITOR.

Sir, — Wilh youc permission, I will give another quotation from the "News Letter," which will demollah our f Hands of the J. S. Mill school. " The tariff has bo reduced the prloe of cotton goods to the cononmer that miny grades are now oheaper here than in Eng'and. A like experience is found in woollen manufactures. The eame is true in respect to eilk, glass, earthenware, and every kind of manufactured article that we oan, at this present writing, call to mind. History reoorda no each iaduetrial progress as has boon made in the United States during the past 20 years." Again: *' The prerent popularity and strength of oar Protective system lie in the prosperity it has given the ration ; in the grert indus< trial cities it his built up : in the pros* perous and diversified industries it has founded ; in the profitable home market it hai given our farmers ; in the varied employment it has given the men and youths of the country." One more extract, and I leave this matter, so crashing to the Freetraders. "In all that goes to make a nation strong and prosperous ; in all that goes to make a couotry Great and independent ; In all that goes to broaden the horizjn of the laborer, lnorease his earnings, cheapen the coat of what he buys, and improves his condition, — in all this lies the strength of the Protective system." To pursue this subJDot ia unnecessary. If the Freetraders have any confidence In their Byatam — and they have not, why <?o they hide themselves behind a mere subterfuge? The reaaon is clear, they know they bare not a leg to stand on. It Is the duty then, of this colony, to imitate the example which has been no triumphantly set them by America, and protect their own looal industries, and so 1&> tho foundation of prosperity similar to that of the United Stale?. Buying in the cheapest, and selling in the dearest, market is a bit of what Mr Keir calls " bunoum." However clieap your goods may seem, you may, like Franklin, pay much too dear for your whistle. — Tours, etc,

" Protboiion,"