A FACT FOR PROTECTIONISTS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 856, 31 August 1871, Page 3

A FACT FOR PROTECTIONISTS.

(From the " Australasian.") Here is a fact to which we are sure the protectionists of these colonies will be grateful to us for drawing their attention. "We have it upon the authority of the gentleman whose name wo subjoin. Mr Hoc, of New York, is known, wherever British or American newspapers penetrate, as the inventor and manufacturer of some of the best printing presses in existence. That upon which the " Australasian " is printed was made by him. His mechanical skill, his enterprise, his extensive business, and his large foundry were matters of which his fellow-countrymen spoke with just pride. Well, Mr Hoe has been protected—out of America. Fiscal fondling was too much for him. The " native industry" which he was carrying on threatened to give up the ghost, it was so assiduously fostered and cherished by the Legislature. He has accordingly transferred his capital, his enterprise, his inventive skill, and foundry to London, and he now announces to his customers in all parts of the world that he is enabled to supply his printing machines at from 20 to 25 per cent, less than he was able to manufacture them at in New York. Once upon a time the cry was " "Westward, ho!" It is now " Eastward, Hoe!"