PROTECTION FROM ANY POINT OF VIEW.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 24, 13 August 1892, Page 2

PROTECTION FROM ANY POINT OF VIEW.

j TO THK EDITOR OF THK STAK Sir, — I can make neither top noi' tail of Mr Deverell's letter, published in your Tuesday's issue, except that he still seems to think there i.i nothing like leather, and I must confess my inability to reply to it, except by taking up too much of your space in reiterating the time-worn arguments against Protection, none of which have been satisfactorily answered. I should like to see Mr Deverell give satisfactory replies to the tenets of the American Freetrade League, which were published in your issue of 11th of June, 1885, some of which are as follows : — 1. Every country has its natural advantages, and to produce what can be most easily produced in it, and exchange such products elsewhere, is the most profitable exertion of its industry ; 2. That the true means of encouraging Home industry and of lessening poverty is to remove every obstacle to the free exchange of the products of labour ; 3. That the Protective system so called is only ignorant national selfishness which defeats its own end ; 4. That it is contrary to the beneficent laws of providence ; 5. That it encourages commercial dishonesty and official corruptness. I am, &c, Saml. Goodbehere.