AN EXPLANATION.
To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir, —Allow mo to explain what I said at the Porto hello meeting, and to which you refer in your loader of last night. I advocated the principle of direct taxation, rather than indirect, on several grounds —and whilst lam an out-and-out free trader, yet finding in our tariff a heavy impost on almost all imported articles, I would not consent to any additional duties, but in the process of repealing existing customs, I would commence with those articles which we did or could not produce ourselves, leaving any protection on those which we do produce until the circumstances of the Colony permitted their total extinction. From this list I specially exempted articles of luxury. —Yours, &c., Jas. MTmjoe. April 13, 1870.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2164, 13 April 1870, Page 2
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131AN EXPLANATION. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2164, 13 April 1870, Page 2
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