FREE TRADE IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2116, 4 December 1880, Page 3

FREE TRADE IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sir Henry Parkes, in a lengthy address to the electors of East Sydney, for which he has been returned, said ::—“ lam a declared advocate of the principles of free trade, with a firm belief that the steady advancement of tho country to a position of greatness and abiding prosperity will be best promoted by a policy which has been found so beneficial to Great Britain. What is called protection is tho policy of the unthrifty—the creed of the improvident waggoners, who are ever calling upon Jupiter to drag their ill-manned vehicles from the sloughs of their own neglect. In former periods of _ English history protective laws wore devised and sustained by the oppressors of our countrymen—by men whose chief objects were to expand tneir own rent-rolls, to preserve and perpetuate monopolies, and to crush the spirit of independence out of the people. By a strong effort of forgetfulness of the lessons of the past, men who call themselves Liberals in Australia have edopted the devices by which their forefathers were for generations ground in the dust. If returned as your representative I shall strenuously oppose restrictions on the operations of industry and commerce, believing, as I do, from the teachings of experience, that trade will flourish beat, and that manufactures will grow up most healthily, in the pure and bracing atmosphere of entire freedom.” The New South Wales elections have resulted in the return of free-traders by a large majority.