DUNEDIN PROTECTION LEAGUE.
Dunkdin, Tin's day
Mr Hutchison strongly urged the League to watch all actions re the tariff. Sir Harry Atkinson defended the tariff on the ground of linancial necessity, and not t'ostcriug native, industries. This fact was emphasised when they found increased duties imposed upon articles which could not be grown or manufactured iv the colony. The system was repugnant to a Protective policy. Taking this into account, and coupling with it the existence of a small but compact and energetic party of Free Traders in thu House (who would lose no opportunity of attacking the tariff), they would see there was need for vigilance. One other thing ho felt impelled to say : It might bo necessary ero long to widen the basis of the League, so as to make it protective of labor us well as products of labor. Manufactures would grow under a protective tariff, and manufacturers would be prosperous, but in these circumstances it would bo a poor thing if the workers continued as inadequately paid as they had recently been, so pour ;i thing that ho would look upon their victory as a very barren one.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5408, 22 December 1888, Page 3
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