AN OLD QUESTION REVIVED.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1993, 16 April 1885, Page 4

AN OLD QUESTION REVIVED.

L'hb continued depression of trade, whidi has operated most injuriously upon certain industries, was discussed at the inniial meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce the other day ; and the beat ing of Free Tiade and Protection upon the question was once more brought to the ftont. No more desirable te«h mony to the value of Flee Trade could be wished for than that borne by Mr W. H. Houldsuoith, M P. As is well known, Mr. Houldbworth is a Conservative whose pnnciples are above suspicion. Yet he emphatically endorses Mr Bright's \icw with regard to the benefits we arc reap ing at the present moment from Free Trade principles. In his opinion, so far fiom any necessity aiising for abandoning those principles, there will, he believes, be actually a movement towaids Free Trade on the part of Piotpctionist nations When this takes place Knghnd will have an immense advantage in meeting them in the neutral tnaikets, if we maintain the cheapness cf woiking which our Free Trade policy has given in. Mr Houldsworth hopes that the working clashes will be content with their fair sfiaie of what profits ate going. The working classes ha\e not geneially known what profits are going, and they have been compelled to remain quiescent under such tilings a they could get. But with a ie\ival of trade theie will be no sort of necessity why the working classes should suffer. Mi Jacob Bright is in agreement with Mr Houldsworth, and anticipates a tuin in other countries in fa\ our of Free Tta<le, rather than a return upon the pait of England to the policy of other nations. Mr R. C. Richards brought out one significant fact at the meeting. He showed that while Bradford had been compelled more than any other nianufactui ing town to meet the hostile tai iffs of the Continent, Biadford was ne\ei more prosperous than she is to day. lie did not believe that hostile tariffs had so much to do with the depression as was generally supposed. One fact of this nature is woith a bushel of .uguments. But the fallacy of the outcry against Free Trade is conclusively demon«tiated by the position of the United States at this moment. That nation enjojs a foim of Protection most eminently calculated to bring out the advantages of this system, if it has any. And what are the facts? America is passing through a trade crisis severer than our own, and her system of Protection has done nothing for her. A pamphlet just issued under the auspices of the New YorU Fite Trade Club furnishes staitling evidence of this. It proves, by inefragable sta tistics, that Protective tariffs have been most injurious, if not disastrous, to American trade. Great Britain can beat the United States in some articles in which the markets lie at the very doot s of the latter. With such facts as these before us, we can have no misgivings upon the value of Free Trade. The present depression is to be deplored, and we can only wait patiently for a revival — already anticipated in some quaiters, we are glad to perceive — but neither now, nor at any tune since the adoption of a Free Tiade policy in England, has there been advanced any icason for railing in question its incalculable advantages. — Lloyd* Newspaper.

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