THE TARIFF.
TO THE EDITOE OF THE STAB. Sir, — I can remember your remarking that no one class can be crashed by the legislature without others feeling it. In exemplification I may now point out that the absurd tariff increase on drugs must hurt someone. I have been generally accustomed with the labouring classes to charge for advice and give the medicine. I can't do that for the future without being out of pocket a very large cheque in the year. The Premier and his followers may jump on the doctors and chemists, while they have a majority; but in the end who are the real losers ? Why the working classes they pretend to befriend. The extortionate two shillings a pint upon tinctures may help to pay the guinea a day to the members of the travelling commission whose recommendations have been so egregionsly ignored. It may even assist towards another expensive jaunt (over £400 I think it cost) of the Premier's throngh the Maori country, but it will only provide revenue at additional cost to the suffering. Shameless indeed are the authors of such tactics, and most assuredly those who put them in, will give loyal assistance towards kicking them out, myself for one. 1 am, &c, F. A. Mojkjkton.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 79, 30 September 1895, Page 2
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211THE TARIFF. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 79, 30 September 1895, Page 2
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