LOSING GROUNG.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3184, 1 April 1911, Page 3

LOSING GROUNG.

BRITAIN AND THE FOREIGN WORKER-

OUSTED BY THE ALIEN

The following is a copy’ of a ietter received by .a Sydney citizen by a recent mail from a well-known English politician, dated Folkestone, February i 0: England is getting m-ore and more under the control of foreign money, notwithstanding that the statistics of exports and imports and trade returns indicate that prosperity is increasing. Wage-earners are not ensured a living in their own country, because their labors and industries are not protected from the alien, who works for employers, in and out of the United Kingdom, for longer hours and far less wages.

You will note the overtures America is making to Canada, which indicate that Canada is likely to be more and more influenced by the United States. Here we 'have Carnegie and other American millionaires, who have amassed huge fortunes in protected America, sending large sums _to further the campaign- for freetrade, a camgaign which is being worked up throughout the British Empire in the interests of our commercial competitors. As tilings are going, it will not be long before America will control the Canadian market for the sale of manufactured goods. When Cobden initiated his free trade proposals the people of the United Kingdom were led to believe that all the civilised nations would adopt a freetrade policy; but, as - .you know, it has proved just the reverse. I would ask you to consider whether Great Britain is the only sensible nation, and if our many alien competitors are wrong in tlieir policy of protecting their own industries and their own labor.