PROTECTION IN GERMANY.
As an instance of : the effect of the protection system introduced by Prince Bismarck into Germany last year, some instructive figjres have just been issued from official sources, according to which the total number of German emigrants from German harbors and Antwerp in the course of the year 1880 was 100,191, of whom 63,778 were males. The greater part took ship from Bremen and Hamburg to the United States, and British North America. In the preceding year, the . number of emigrants from the Empire was only 32,327, so that the figure has N been more than tripled in a twelve- ' month. Prominent among the reasons which induced so many of the sons to quit the Fatherland is undoubtedly a growing aversion to military service, but it is equally certain that the protectionist law, by raising the price of bread and other necessaries of the poor, acts as a powerful motive to discontent. It is at least a striking fact that so enormous an increase in the stream of emigration should be coincident with the first year’s trial of the new tariff.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2547, 20 May 1881, Page 3
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184PROTECTION IN GERMANY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2547, 20 May 1881, Page 3
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