THE VITAL OBJECTION
EX-AUSTRALIAN'S STATEMENT. (Received 19th June, 10 a.m.) ' LONDON, 18th June. Mr. Pilkington, speaking as one who had lived in Australia for twenty-seven years, denied that the increase in British exports to Australia was due to preference. The vital objection to preference was that the consumer in Britain was taxed in 'Order to provide a cash subsidy for the Dominion producers. The Australian market was not dominated by the price of any article manufacturedin Britain, and'"consequently the British manufacturer did not get a higher price because of Australian preference. As a beginning, tariffs might be applied to a few industries, but they would inevitably be extended until the burden 'was too great for the consumers to bear, and the end would be disastrous to all parts' of the Empire. Industries which had grown up under tariffs would, become derelict when the tariffs were discarded.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1924, Page 5
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