AMERICAN PROTECTIONISM.
An American newspaper correspondent says that the regiment of protectionists gathered in New York has been well drilled in a definite programme. Rivalries are not to be allowed to show themselves ; all delegates are alike to urge complete rigor in the tariff. That may be so, but the seeds of discord are visible nevertheless. One delegate wants unrestricted silver coinage, another wants the nation to pay for the ships he might build, so that he could oblige us on this side with a cheap article. “If we can export cutlery, why not ships ?” he appears to have argued. Another wants bounties to enable American ships to sail to foreign ports, and so forth. Such an exhibition of fallenness and poverty we have never seen. Not an industry appears to exist in the States able to stand on its own legs. They must all receive outdoor relief at the expense of the nation. We commend the spectacle to protectionists here.
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Patea Mail, 28 January 1882, Page 3
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