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Franklin Times, Volume 14, Issue 911, 13 August 1924, Page 3

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KEEP THE CHAMPION STANDARD UNFURLED FOR OUR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. Otherwise America, Canada, Australia, and Japan, with populations aggregating 215,000.000, will wipe little New Zealand out with its paltry population of a solitary million. THE FALLACY OF FREE TRADE. I often notice in the Press some of my people are advocating Free Trade, which would be feasible if it were universal. You know the trouble England got into through allowing the dumping of German surplusages on its markets, and the miserable pittance its artisans were getting. America was not quite so “philanthropic,” and has waxed fat on England’s short-sighted policy, and which enabled America to advance England £980,000,000 to assist in llnancing the recent disastrous war. If America had been •?. free trade country, would it have been able to make this advace? Why do not free traders advocate the removal of the alien poll tax? If it were done it would permit of a much lower rate of wage be-