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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 10

. If, as Mr. Asquith tacitly admits, homeis- stimulated by a Jariff, surelythat -is .-.a-very great gain, .even.if.-tho. tariff produces no revenue directly.,--For it increases the well-being of the nation; it finds an income for'thousands who are now, idle-and a burden '.upon the.comnViinity,- and it thereby increases in .two ways tho taxpaying-capacity of the community at large. • Theste are advantages not unworthy of consideration, and they follow from Mr. Asquith's admission that tariffs may stimulato home industry orproduce revenue, though they cannot,, in his view, do both. How they do both is not very mysterious to anybody who can put aside" Free-trade spectacles and look at things' with' his own eyes. . ..

In short; if you increase prosperity at home you add to the wealth of the nation, and 1 the additional wealth is cither saved or-'spent . upon things : previously out of reach. In'either case the. revenue' must ; ultimately ' benefit as wsll as tho. Times." .

Tho British Budgot,represents Socialism puro'an"d . simple; and this I has been recognised, all over the continent' of Europe; anil. Socialism agjin represents the encouragement of, the - incompetents, tho no'or-do-woels, and . tho scally-wags.at the expense. of.those;;who by thrift, energy, arid" initiative haveprovided ' .;for the future of themselves and their families.— "Courier," Brisbane.