PEOPLE WHO APPROVE OF PROTECTION.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 220, 17 September 1887, Page 4

PEOPLE WHO APPROVE OF PROTECTION.

One of the richest men in Melbourno at the present time is Mr J. 13. Fink, M.L. A. ', and an autobiographical speech which he delivered at the opening of some premises he has just erected at a cost, including the purchase money of the land in Elizabeth street, of £115,000, shows what may be accomplished in the short space of 20 years. lie entered the service of Wallach Brother, furniture dealers, at a salary of 30s a week. Since then, by his own unaided efforts, lie has bought out five partners, each of whom retired from the firm with ft handsome fortune, and is now one of two proprietors of this business of Eock and Co., as well as of a branch house belonging to the former, in Sydney, lie and his partner have upwards of half a million invested in the two concerns ; and Mr Fink is about to erect a block of buildings ton stories hi u;h at the south-east angle of Elizabeth and Flinders street. Mr Fink, on the occasion referred to, stated that " lie believed protection had been a very great factor in the prosperity of the business," which (says a writer in the Sydney Mail) 1 can well believe, for when the Legislature authorises a manufacturer to clap an additional 25 per cent, on to the price of every article that quits his workshops, every householder who buys of him is fleeced of 5s in the £. r^\m is an arrangement of which that gentleman highly approves.

Stiike — An arrangement by which a htindrol men can throw a thousand men out of work, and rob many thousands) of women aud children of their moans of Buppoit.