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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1139, 6 October 1871, Page 2

The following is from the Australasian :—“ The intense selfishness and narrow-nr.ndeduess of the protectionists are becoming more and moje apparent every day. Each interest wants to be subsidised by the state, but then it is strongly averse to the same assistance being afforded to any other interest. The brewers, for example, have no objection to be protected as against their ‘English competitors, but they protest against a similar advantage being ac corded to the malster. The tailors are perfectly willing to accept of protection against their rivals in Great Britain; but when it comes to be a question of imposing an import duty of 10 per cent, npon cloth, in order to encourage the woollen manufactures, the operative tailors assail the Treasurer with protests and complaints. And not altogether without reason ; for the master tailors, finding that they cannot increase the price of clothing to their customers, have announced their intention of making a reduction of 10 per cent, in the wages paid to their men. Nor can we blame them for so doing. Already people have got into the habit of arrang ing with people in London and Paris for the supply of so many suits a year, this practice is likely to become mope general as protection increases the post of production here. Consumers will naturally pndeayour to protect themselves, just as producers are doing; and perhaps"the latter will discover, in course of time, that they have been engaged in the foolish occupation of kil ling the goose which laid the golden 'CtS