Protection.
— * It is refreshing to record a legislators view of protection. The following questions, and answers put at Mr Macarthur's meeting ara reported in the Manawatu Times • — MrPaitridge Has the protective policy been a sue cesg ? The protective policy never has and never will be a success (applause). Mr Hush what about America ? Mr MacHrthur replied that America was the most crucial instauce of the non success of protection that th^y could possibly imagine. Mr Colville asked how a colonial manufacturer who paid his employees £2 10* per week could compel e with a Home manufacturer who only paid his employees 18a per week. — Mr Macarthur : My answer to that is a i very simple one. If you caDnot compete with the raarufact'jiers at Home you must turn t > and pursue some industry ia which you can compete with them, (Laughter)- You have ' no right to a«k the general community to be taxed in order to make up for your inability. (Applause). Mr Eush a^ ed if it would not be better to pity 12s a pair for boots made in the colony than 10s for English boots.— Mr Macarthur : It would be better, cerUinly, for the man who received tho 12s. Laughter.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 20 June 1890, Page 2
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203Protection. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 20 June 1890, Page 2
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