CHEAP FOOD.
In a letter to a correspondent, Mr John Bright, M.P., answering certain questions put to him in reference to the recent agitation on the question of Free and Fair Trade, writes : “ If yon keep a particular trade employed at the cost of taxing persons engaged in other trades what is it but a system of relief, or like feeding a dog with its own tail ? Our people are not turned out of work by foreign imports. How do we employ and feed the ten millions of increased population of this island since Free Trade Era, i.e., since 1840 ? They are far better employed, and paid, and fed now than they were 40 years ago, when they were ten millions less in number. The present state of things is one of steady and general improvement. Poor rates are decreasing everywhere.”
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Patea Mail, 13 February 1882, Page 3
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141CHEAP FOOD. Patea Mail, 13 February 1882, Page 3
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