AUSTRALIAN EXPERIMENTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8964, 6 November 1907, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN EXPERIMENTS.

Press Association. —Copyright. Loudon, November 5. The Times declares the Commonwealth's experiment of the tari if protection of manufacturers, workfiieu, and consumers is equally Interesting and 'mlventurous.- _ It sees jihat the Labour Party is behind flip proposed Excise Board, and also expatiates on the assumed' all-wise omniscient State, aud the assumed human perfectibility of the entire Australian community, so mentally disciplined and morally chastened an to cheerfully accept an earthly providence. Received G, 7.8 a.m. London, November 3. The Tribune says Sir W. Lyuc’s now protection proposals are one.of the most daring attempts on record to enact State Socialism. It is a peculiarly Australian combination of false paternalism and bad economics. The Daily News says the seb.c iris intended not so much to abolish sweating as to make protection attractive to the workers by giving it the c-ppearauco of being an instrument for industrial betterment. Behind the higher tariff wall it will be something like sharing the plunder, manufacturers taking the lion’s share and workmen what their organisations can secure.