THE NEW TARIFF

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7497, 17 October 1895, Page 3

THE NEW TARIFF

Is all that can be desirecWrom a Govern-! nieht point of view. It ;■ aWwcll wrong and ill-advised-from an Opposition point of view; and it will be generally.conceded Sat &c man has not yet been born that can construct a tariff'which will not provoke ridicule from the common or garden observer Howler, something ha_ to be.done and it was only to be expected, after the provinoTal tourof the Commissive r«, that it would be something funny. But it was re_Uy touching to follow the, missioners on their round, and watoh the sublime self-aacrifices offered by the buccessiTCSUggestors." One man would.ooma alone ancTaay that he was "running a factory" (we will say) for, the tinning of •laS and while not wishing anything out of thei way, would surest; a fW<*«® P er •cent, ad vol. on tinnecf fish of all kinds. It ia only natural that this should be ffflowed by another patriot who had a law ESTS-eoond-hanS coffin-platea, and in Aa nuns love of his country, and for the ■i_--Tf __. revenue, he would think it sake of to »»™ ' _ Beven shillings desirable that a tax °*«'"*'»„ ~ - „]„„, D f an ounce should be put on all *««"»« imports. Anything apparently for their country's good, while one of the main Bourses* of revenue y from the duty paid on the lar go aw ever increasing shipments °( Vanity Fair ettes, which have steadily made their way into publio favour.