HOW GERMANY GETS CONTRACTS.
A striking instance of the usefulness of a tariff apatt from its value for protective or retaliatory purpose was given by Stir Boanar Law, in a speech at Blackburn. He stated that a South Ameiican republic gave a large order for guns [recently but not to England. "I am" informed,," he said, "by gentlemen connected with an English firm that made the lowest tender and fully expected to get the order, that the German Ambassador to the republic secured the order at the last moment by offering to lower the German import duty on tobacco."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10063, 9 June 1910, Page 4
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99HOW GERMANY GETS CONTRACTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10063, 9 June 1910, Page 4
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