MR CHAMBERLAIN AND PROTECTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2242, 12 March 1886, Page 2

MR CHAMBERLAIN AND PROTECTION.

A liirminuham audience (remarks the St, James' Gazette) wa,s recently informed of "a very curious incident, in Mr Chamberlain's commercial experience," He and his firm used to export screws to 'Atyerisa, The American makera came oyer and interviewed If r CJ]an|l)erJajii and partners. They said, " We ; are ! fpakiiig JOO per cent on our capital \ we like it. If you send over more of your 'excellent Birmingham commodities wo shall be obliged, however reluctantly, to reduoe our prices, That will shut you out, but it will also reduce our profits. We appeal to you as men and manufacturers. Save us both from this disagreeable necessity. Make, a bargain. Take so much a year lo sit' sWand'not s'e'rik a scretno Aitierica." ■;f'eJK6l)aii)be|'kii}• jpflf fetWpld did % ' 'hpSrkepe4" tf?' tliu * y'oifle pf the inslduoua Yankee ani tqok, that " handsome salary for years. But after, toiling and spinning in for' a season, retribution fell upon them. Chamberlain' and Nottleford '.'were"lis babes'and sucklings in the hands of the smarter trader with an incorruptible Domocratjc' iHtgislatwo ■ to hack him.: The

the days alike of competition and subsidy wore.gone. ; ' Now, says Mr Chamberlain, the only person who suffered by thislittlo conspiracy wero the working classes of America, '