WHO PAID?

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 127, 29 May 1913, Page 8

WHO PAID?

I JVTiGE EENTOri/S RAtK , STORY OF HIS TARIFF REFORM STUDIES. ! •lucige -Remold told a remarkable story .i; she dnmer of the Association of Engi-i:fpn--in-Chargc, at the Holborn Restau-,-:?n;. London, the olbpr day. He *aid he sat studying the subject of Tariff Re- j form, a-nd one -illuetrat-ion had made it clear to him. it referred to the trme -when the Mexican dollar was 4/ in ilf-x;«t> and 3/10 in thp United States, and tiie duLed i-tatee dollar was worth 4' in the I'niteu States and 3/10 in Slexko. A man in Mexico wbo had a Mexican doiiajr. no more money, went to a publk-houep and ifsjaght 2d worth of ■whisky, and got as hW correct change a X'nited States dollar. Hp then went ov«r the bridge into the United States and bought iuioi.her 2d worth of whiskr. hnil ;jr>t as hie <-2angc a Mexican dollar. He retnrcied over the bridge to 'Mexico, lin-d another 2d of whisky, and repeated tihp. operaiioa until late in the n?-(*rnorm lip vras-.found dead drunk -with a Mexican dollar in his pocket, exactly ac he biarted. "The gTezt-qirestion i=?, -, said the judge, "■who paid for lie whisky? Was it tie ■prndv.rfT nr the consumer? When the question \e eieirtually solved we shall ha-vc seli.led tie mjcuer of colonial pre-jfT-pncp. wiiich h;is given us more than enough trouble."