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Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 154, 16 October 1919, Page 4

A HORSE WELL SHOD Is the animal tlmt will give satisfaction Send your horses to D. MORROW f Expert Horse-shoer, Wheelwright & Blacksmith A trial solicited MEUBA STJIEET, MATA MATA KEEL' THE Champion Standard Unfurled And Success will Continue The Fallacy of Free Trade

1 OFTEN notice in the press some of my people me advocating Free Trade, which would be feasible if it were universal. You know the trouble England got into through allowing the dumping of German surplusage on its markets and the miserable pittance its artisans were getting. America was not (piitc so “ philanthropic,” and has waxed fat on England’s shortsighted policy. The Americans are noted for *‘ points,” but invariably they are for themselves. Why do not free traders advocate the removal of the alien poll tax ? If it were done, it would permit of a much lower rate of wage being paid, and a lower cost of production ; and, besides, we would have the cost of maintenance of those subjects instead of their surplusages in goods, with the result that we would soon be brought down to the Asiatic level. Japan, India, and China are making rapid strides in manufacturing, and with cheap labour, augmented with modern machinery, they will ultimately be a menace to the British artisan ; but evidently this is of little moment to “some,” as they appear anxious for cheap labour and goods without considering its disastrous effects to the British workers. It is obvious the products of the soil must be amply protected against foreign importations from countries where land is low in price and labor cheap, otherwise the Dominion must suffer. I quito believe if you wero now to offer niadc-in-Germany goods at a trifle less than those of British manufacture, patriotism, in some instances, would vanish like smoke. I am, V., AUCKLAND.