FREE TRADE V. PROTECTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 12 September 1885, Page 2

FREE TRADE Y. PROTECTION.

I<> PHI. H)l lOH Sik,— l have just seen alettci in yom i-siie of 2">th August, signed .lohn Parr, headed " Piotcction and the Faimei-." Relieving the fact of £nO,OOU being piodnced in the countiy lsvvoitha lnmdied aiguinents in favour of sending the money out of it to buy goods, 1 will not entei into youi coi lespi indent's aiguinents ag.un-t a vv oollen factoiv at Onehunga, .is tin y aie very wide of the maik. While 1 admit the justice and the advantage of eveiy mis bunging and disposing of In- commodities, wliethei laboni oi goods, in the best maikct, neithei would it be neees-aiy to notice the pioposal to do away with fcl, 4lo,ooo custom*, duties, and substitute a land t.i\, as a ino.iiis of giving an impetus to tiade, noi to point out that the bulk of otn population aio not .igiicnltmists, as 4 "ilh, of the |>i>pul<itimi live in towns and aie dependent upmi thu otl c fifth fm siippoit. To stiengtlicn his areumont foi a laud ta\, he pioceed-t to bhow that tho value of land all ovei the vvoild is decreahing, and .shows a town section m Auckland is of moie value than the best "00 acie f.um in the Waikato, the small pa'x-h bunging m fioni t'3oo tot4oo a je.u, finishing with a fling at tho Government, who aie appointed by tho people. Altogether it is blatant ciy and aigument in favoui of alandta\. — Yuuh obediently, T. M.

A Wisi Hi vcos — " Deai on AVtlder, I \\int .ou totdl me how \ou kept vourscll .mil f.imil) so will the past seison, when all the rust ot lib .j.ive brcn suk so much, and have hid the doctors running to us so often." Hrothcr l.ijior, file answer is»orj'f>is\ I used Hop Hitter:, in time, and kept my f.nnilv \wll, and sivod l.irfjo ductor's bills 1-our -hillings' worth ot it kipt us all vvoll and able tj work .ill the time, and I will wamnt it has cost jou ?ndmost of jour lu-ish-bours / 10 to J 100 apiece to keep sick the same time. I fancy jou will ta.^e mj medicine hereafter." v>ee