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Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 155, 23 October 1919, Page 4

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KEEL 3 THE Champion Standard Uufurled And Success will Continue The Fallacy of Free Trade I OFTEN notice in the press some of my people are ad vomiting Free Trade, which would he 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 quite 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 l' If it Wore 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 limit surplusages in goods, with the result that we would soon he 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 he a menace to the British artisan; but evidently this is of littlo moment to “some,” as they appear anxious for cheap labour and goods without considering its disastrous effects (o the British workers. It is obvious tho 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 quite believe if you were now to offer luude-in-Germauy goods at a trifle less than those of British manufacture, patriotism, in some instances, would vanish like smoko. I am, V., AUCKLAND.