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Evening Star, Issue 7385, 3 December 1887, Page 4

PUBLIC NOTICES. jy I A L 0 G u E. “ Well, Neil, how are you getting on !” “Not very bright these times, I assure you. “ Why, are you suffering from the depression too ? I did not think it would affect your business.” “I would like to know what business it does not affect, except the pawnbroker.” “Yes; but people must have medicine, even if they are short of money.” “ Not necessarily so. People can, and have, to do without many things when work is scarce. Then a good many of my customers are in Lodges, who, when work is plentiful, never think of going to their doctor; but many of them now have no choice. It is not likely they are going to run in debt for medicine, and pay for it through the Lodge.” “ That is true. I must admit that times are not what they used to be; and I can hardly see any hope of their getting better, unless we have a large addition to our population. This, with economy on the part of our Government, is ray only hope.” “ What is the use of a larger population when we have not work for our present one? And as for retrenchment on the part of the Government, you might just as well hope to raise yourself by the tags of your boots as to lift the depression by swelling the list of the unemployed. It is our duty first to find work lor the people that-are here, if we intend to retain them, before we can hope to get any more.” “ But you do not suppose that the Government ought to find work for all the idle men in the Colony, surely?” “What is the Government but ourselves? ' These three things we can do, and I leave it to your common sense which of them will benefit us most: Ist, find them work; 2nd, keep them idle, getting food either on credit or from the Benevolent; or 3rd, compel them to clear out." “ Well, if that is so, I should think we ought to find them work; but how are we to get the money for their wages ? You _ don’t approve of borrowing another couple of millions, do you?” “No; Ido not approve of borrowing another shilling.” “ Well, now. tell me how you would solve the difficulty; and as briefly as possible, as my time 18 limited at present.” “I will gladly. First, as a small nation we ought to live under our income, which, in sterling cash, is a little over L 6,000,000, For some years past, in fact nearly the whole time of our existence, we have been living far above this. We have pawned our goods to the tune, it is said, of L 70,000,000, the annualinterestupon which amounts to L 3,500,000. This, with the L 0,000,000 we send away for imported articles, makes us go to the bad to the doleful tune of at least 13,000,000 a-year. Now for my remedy, which I hope will commend itself to you. First, put an impost duty on all manufactured goods of 50 per cent.” “50 per cent.—the D ! Do you want to ruin us right out ?” “ No, Ido not. I ask you, is America ruined —the only country in the world that is paying off its debt ? And yet 50 per cent, is the tariff she has had for the last twenty years.” “ Yes, but she is a big country.” “ And we are a small one; and does not a small one need Protection more than a large one.” “Yes; but we cannot make all our own goods.” .i “ Well, if not, we can do without them. But we do not need to do that; for, after paying our interest, we shall still have two or three millions left to buy what we canpot piate.” “ But you would tax the poor as well as the rich by so doing.” “ And are they not taxed now, and ever have been ? Still, there is no need for any extra taxation; take it off tea, sugar, and all raw material, and put it op goods that are made hy foreign labor; then you will get the workmen to come here and spend their wages amongst us, giving the farmer a home market for his produce, occupying our empty houses, thus giving a start to tho building trade increasing the price of property, and bringing about a true and lasting prosperity, founded on honesty, which is the best policy.” “ Ah ! Neil, I am afraid your ideas will not work. What would become of the importers under such a tariff as that ?” "

'* Let them become manufacturers, or if not, they can go on the land at all events; with the present State of'things they will get starved out, like"most of us.” “ Well, my advice to you, Mr Neil, is that you mind your business, sud let politics qlpne.” “ Your advice >s no doubt well meant, but if acted on there would be no business for any of us to mind. Good day.” Eut, however, business must be attended to. It is the business of every man to see that his health is conserved. Some will say the best way to do so is to keep drugs out of your stomach. True, of a certain kind; but Nature has provided in the herbs of the field Medicines which will not injure the most delipate stomach, but strengthen and keep it in a healthy condition. It is a well-known fact that herbivorous animals cannot be kept in a state of health without bitters,. Of this class of medicine we have several mixtures, one of which seldom fails to relieve and cure the sufferer from Indigestion.; 1. The HOP BITTERS, the real genuine article. 2. The CASOARA BITTERS, the principal ingredient being the cascara segrada root, grown in California. It is at the heaty of stomach and aperientmedicines at preaept. a. TONIC AND SE RHINE ESSENCE, an extract of the best known.herbs, with the two qualities, indicated. 4. TflE STOMACH TONIC, composed of gentian,'camomile, golden seal, etc., one. of the best bitters in the Colony j Is fid and 2s fid. Our Asthma Powder ia the greatest boon to the sufferer frqm this painfuland distressing disease; good also in catarrh, bronchitis, cold, etc,; Is and 2s fid a tin. ; The summer is approaching, when we expect amongst children and adults more bowel trouble, diarrhoea, etc. In Our' CHOLERA DROPS and ASTRINGENT POWDERS are two almost infallible remedies. Keep either or both of them in the house, andyoq wilt be able to check and regulate the bowels at once ;- 1s a bottle. W« cap produce people in Dunedin wbofe livps wet® saved by their use,' BAPY SOOTHING SYRUP, without opium or any other narcotic. Speaking, honestly, I hardly ever knew a mother who, after trying this: mixture, reverted again to the. teething powder. Royal Mixture, Infant Preserver, etc, etc, Is a 3oz bottle; half the price of the cheapest imported mixtures.• BLOOD PURIFIER.—This ts.a concentrated decoction of Sarsaparilla, Burdock, Sillingen, Dookroot, etc. Its persistent use for 12 months cured a very bad leg of 16 years’standing, the person being in the Hospital several times. 2s fid quart bottles. There are some people, that have such good digestion and assimilation that their food rubs to fat. The ANTI-FAT PREPARATIONS sent into the country are very costly, notably that by Russell, whose Mixture has been sold at 20a a bottle. Now, I put up a similar preparation to his, the chief ingredient in both being citric acid, at fis a bottle, and as it takes several bottles to make an impression I give six bottles for one pound. If you want to get thin try it. To those who keep Oattle, Horses, and Poultry, I commend the CONDITION POWDERS and EGO FOOD; both cheap and good. A full List of PATENT, HOMEOPATHIC, and GENERAL MEDICINE. Being a Medical Freethinker, I let people judge for themselves, and get them what tney want,' unless I know' it will poison them,* I have an assistant who served four years in a regular druggist's, apd being myself registered according fa) the Act, I make up any kind of prescription at reasonable rates. A large Assortment of Combs, Brushes, Sponges, Enemas, Syringes, Perfumes, Essences, Tinctures, etc. Note our New Address--74. GEORGE STREET, DUNEDIN. Orders sent anywhere.