The Blessings of the Tariff

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 12, 9 July 1885, Page 3

The Blessings of the Tariff

If the farmer should gain anything by the protection afforded to pigs and tallow we «rish him joy, for a great many ef his j agricultural implements, will be 10 per cent, dearer. Indeed, what won't be dearer P The child will be bern in. a bed that has paid 10 per cent. ; washed with protected soap ; wrapped in shawls that hare, paid 20 per cent. ; suckled from a bottle that has paid 15 per cent. ; fed with arrowroot that has paid Id per lb ; wheeled in a perambulator that has paid 15 per cent., and be, made wondrous fine with trimmings that hare paid 17£ per cent; He will go to school ' in protected clothes and smash windows that were made in the place at 8s per sash above the foreign price, He will learn his multiplication table by protected candlelight^ and bnrn his protected, boots at a protected fire., He will ride on a protected, saddle and bet a protected hat that he'll jump a fence of protected barbed wire. He will daub his protected coat against protected; paint on the protected door. He will eat his protected fish with a protected fork off a. protected plate. He. will. l«»k at his protected watch through his protected spectacles, and tow jt f s time. to go to his lodge. He will drink taxed spirits out of taxed glasses, find be carried by servants— in whom alone there is Freetrade— to a protected buggy, which, he will presently upset and break his unprotected neck. A nominated cornier with a jury of unemployed will study his case and write a rerdiet on protected paper. He will then be put in a coffin lvned and covered with protected material, lowered into the grave with protected ropes, and covered with a protected shovel, to be protected fr«m Protection for ever. — ' Afataura Ensign.'