THEN AND NOW.

Evening Star, Issue 7251, 30 June 1887, Page 3

THEN AND NOW.

MR BALLANCE ON MR BALLANCE ON PROTECTION. FREETRADH (Before he becinjeaMiuis- " It had hcon said that ter of the Crown). extreme Protection was not wanted. His answer "They should enwa», that wc should not course, as fir as they qui'ible about names : possibly could, a e-pirit of what we did want was not Freotiado and ot cornthis kind of Protection of meroe, believing thai New 5 per cent., or 20 per Zealand w<<B more adapted cent., 'tor 35 per cent, to bo a great commorchl rr 50 per cent. He said country, Bituated as it is that we shou'd have tuffi- with its splendid scacient Protection what- board, its iplor.did ports, ever that might l:e (he and unrivalled position, limittd hiinscif to none) than any other country to adequato'y protect our purhapß in the Southern industries. With refe- Hemisphere." Further rence to the tariff incro- on he lemarked : " 1 beduced by the Government lievo our truo policy is to the othor day, ho said it) culti'&to trade with the wag an indication of the other colonies, and to direction in which Minis- remove our tariff rostricters ought to go, and tion until wo ore as free although that tariff might in our commerce as Engnot have afforded the land herself is

amount of Pro'cction re- Tho spirit of Protection quired by the industrial never dies, and you will classes, they sliou d not find in New Zealand cerforgcttbis important fac", tain industries struggling that it was a great firßt for existence which, withstep towards Protection out looking ahead or conof our industries. . . . sideling the whole faots of They are prepared to test the case, evince a selflxb the feeling of the country, dosiro to have themselves and they boldly launched protected, and to tax the their tariff If the peop'e wholo community for the wanted a better tariff, let benefit of particular them say so ; it was for trades " them now to make the re-

sponse, and ho felt sure thatwhatoverGovernment

was in power a tariff would be introduced and they would have Protection— Protection in earnest, and, as he had said, a sufficient Protection,"