HOW MUCH PROTECTION DO PROTECTIONISTS WANT?

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2383, 18 October 1887, Page 3

HOW MUCH PROTECTION DO PROTECTIONISTS WANT?

♦- TO Til K I.PITOII, Sin.- ’IV other day I w»» ...- -Ming to put .‘ill bushels of "lit- tlnoiigh ill- finin' Tlm-e l.inn-M \\' ff made in \\ iii-e'iii-iii, I Third Si.itto. They innl l" >i'iit liv rail mop* tlnm niii; t!ooi.-iiiul mill's to New V"ti;. The exporter in Now V"i lc would lin'd to have ;l )il>'tit, tin' sen passage t" Auckland li.nl I" In' I'.ii'l f"i. ."id till' itiipni tor in Auckland would m-d Ids protit, mid, .dill aigb 1 ( i" m-t know that 'I mi, 1 li.'li.",,'limn' would Ini Customs duty to lin jinid fi'i'. Take it nil in nil. 1 reckon til" iinli.'i "f tin—' funnels did not not. for in.ikitm thi'in more than "im half of tlm cost wliirli thov stood to tlm fin iimr li'To wlm h.eight tiii'.'ii. Now, to II milker of famous hen' Mils v.ii. i.im liundred pel cent, of protection, and if this is not -ulioienl protection to encourage the lucid indu-try of making fanners here, then lot tlm locnl industry |eiish. So say 1. We are not going to be sill'll fools :is til throw away shilling with the light hand so ns to pick up a penny v. i'' the left hand.

An Kditor, We will perhaps hear no more of this peniicio'is doctrine of protection, seeing that ns the elections are over, ns a political erv it is not now needed. Sir, this New /calami, which now ought to have keen a hind of milk and honey, of happiness and prosperity ; this New Zealand ought In have lie.cn the A I of all the new conntrie.s, for we had advantages over all the others. Hut political cries have bom our ruin. Ihshonest politicians, who had no thought of their country s good, and vdm were onto enough to sec that by taking advantage, of ignorance and cupidity in human nature, and on the strength of those weaknesses proclaiming some very taking hut, at the same time, very delusive and false schemes, and by doing so, worked a dodge for their own benotit at the expense of their cmintry’s ruin. With the end of the Stallord. Ilillies (hi vein i in-il t it was and is till supposed tin: Tory ( hj veriinient ceased. It may have been I hr. end of the Tory (Oivei liinent, but with that ending came the ending of political honesty, political wisdom, political morality and political honour; for ever since, the Mall-W hitakerHryce administration, it lias all been political devilment. I will not now talk of the doings of Stout, \ "gel and Mallance, their political vagiu ies and political villainies are too recent to be told, but as Sir lleorge they is coining again to tlm fore, it may be well to bring Ids past before the eyes of tlm people. About ten or twelve years ago bo let his place here in New Zealand, went Home, and tried for a constituency in tlm Tory interest; but lie was then too well-known to both Tory and Whig, at least to those in high places, so he was nowhere. In his rage and disappointment lie came back to New Zealand determined if lie coni if not have power, which is Ids ruling passion, by the aristocracy, he would have it by umbocracy, and power he will have, and for power he will sacrifice honour, truth, friendship, and gratitude ; for flower he will ho devoid of shame, and talk down to the people the veriest, rubbish and twaddle. Well, on his arrival bad; here, in New Zealand, ho went down to the I’liaincsaiid said he so loved the people of New Zealand (hat he could not stay away from them. This was smir grapes with a vengeance, and was a contradiction to Ids Tory canvassing to be an M.r. Of course, this lovingthe people, Vou are a man and a brother.'’ went high with tin: people. Well, Mr Editin', his next groat taking idea to gull the people was the unearned increment dodge. He pictured to tho people the large estates in England, and told them the same would happen here, when all the time, he knew that it was completely impossible such a thing could be bent. These big estates in K.'gland, if it bad not been for the law of entad, would, hundreds of years ago, have been cut up and dispersed among the people, and as there was no law of entail here, at least if there was it was a dead letter, and in no case, put in n-e. Consequently there could be no big estate in the sense that they worn ill Kngland. This unearned increment lias been the, ruin of thousands hero in New Zealand, and Grey is to blame for their niin. He so inflamed the minds of the people that the land sharks were rubbing tlmni, and in their haste to secure smim of this unearned increment they brought ruin and desolation upon themselves. What did he (Grey) care for their ruin ? Nothing', so long as it brought him power. Mr Kditor, there was a great deal to he said in favour of these largo land sharks. They bought limit' land according to law. They spent money, and every big man made ten, twenty or fifty industrious workingmen into tlm owners of happy freeholders and homesteads, lint what will we say about the small land sharks'; Why, they in their pm chases outraged Immunity, jumping across mads into your iieiglib mi's tenitoiy, gricliruiiing his boundary on the other side so as to hem him in, running down to Auckland a day before him so as to get possession, in fact all sorts of damnable tricks wen; tried and put in force by the small land sharks. In fact Grey with his unearned increment demoralise.l the minds of the people, and when he (Grey) did get into p mer his government from beginning to end was frauds, misrepresentations, corruptions, bribery, logrolling, foolery, wildness and madness. He and bis government, made the world Kiberal, a bye-word of scorn and contempt, bo and his government brought representative government to such a lamentable state of degradation that true liberals began to loose hope in men being able to govern themselves. Mr Kditor, my idea of men is mice a fool always a foul, once a political rogue always a political rogue. —Vonrs very truly, Hakaimi’i. Harajiipi, llttli October, ISS|.