PROTECTION AND FREE TRADE.
(To the Editor.} ?ir, —My brother has a shop down the road and charges 1/ a pot for vaseline, yet this identical article is procurable up the street at (id. If Igo and buy the vaseline from my brotheT for 1/, tha-t's preference; if, on the other hand, I go and tell him to either meet the opposition price or shut up shop, that's common sense. Yet still further should 1 go and give my brother the extra (id as a present, and then go and buy the (id vaseline. I am doing my brother a much better turn than by giving him preference, for ho can now shut up his shop and have a holiday without loss, or the can go and find another occupation. Thate charity and common sense. Farmer M. has a family and plenty of land, but sets apart some of his sons to make ploughs, although he can buy them at half it costs nim'to make them, that's protection; but Fa.rmer 8. only keeps his family employed on work that shows profit. "That's free trade.—l am, etc., PROTECTION.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 279, 23 November 1921, Page 9
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