SIR T. MACKENZIE AT LEEDS

Evening Star, Issue 16783, 11 July 1918, Page 6

SIR T. MACKENZIE AT LEEDS

lecture ox post-war- trade,

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LONDON, July 9. I Sir T. Mackenzie waa the principal 'speaker nt a patriotic rally in the Town Hall at Leeds. He recalled" the New Zealand of 30 years ago. and said he found that wo had travelled far since the day* of Adam Smith. New Zealand had given the i Motherland preference, and after the war ■ she was going to put on a prohibitive tariff of 50 per cent, against Germany, and it would bo 500 if necessary. The aim was to keep out the Germans, because they , were dishonest, dishonorable, and brutal. Britain must also do something to keep out unfair competition. " Ar& you going," asked Sir Thomas, "to trad© with our enemies after the war on tho same torms as with the Allies? if so, the will use every shilling profit to train fresh armies to enslave the world." Sir 'J'. Mackenme said we should secure the whole of'Hhe Australian and Now Zf-a- ---\ land wool for ourselves and Allies, and prevent Germany over getting the finer wools, thus cutting her out from that section of the trado altogether. The total output of South American merinos waa onlv 75.000,0C01b, end German v alone used 238,000,0001b. New Zealand had sent 110,000 soldiers out of a million inliabitants : but he confessed that tho strain oil her man power and resources was now beginning to tell. New Zealand, however, could supply a superabundance of foodstuffs and raw material, while American—thank God for America!—had men in plenty willing to go. It would be a sound policy to accept men from America and foodstuffs from New Zealand. Samoa and New Guinea must never be returned to Germany. With the Panama Canal opened. Samoa was the Charing Orus« of tho Pacific. It was impossible to allow Germany to set up aircraft stations and submarine bases th'.'i'e. We did not want islands because of the land, but we would not have brutal, dishonorable neighbors.