CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 3 December 1914, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

TARIFF PROTECnONHC

To the Editor.

Sir, —At his Normanby meeting I asked Mr Pearce what he proposed re this unjust and corrupt policy, "Tar « ,Protecti°n } " commonly called Tariff Reform. To this he said he proposed nothing. He thought it a good thing for the colony; and to this I gave an emphatic denial. After his speech Mr Pearce pointed out to me Germany aa an example of the utility of protection. Io this, Mr Editor, let me say: "Professor Brentano, a well-known German Professor of Economics, calculates that the German corn duties take- £45,000,UJU rrom the German people, and that of this -only £o,000;(XX} goes to the kermfm Government; the balance of. ±j4U,(XX),GOO is a private tax levied by the German Agrarian party." Protection means taxing the community in order to create monopoly. Sir Joseph Ward proposes to raise this protective duty by ten shillings. Mr Massey has promised to reduce the Customs, but he Wll i ,rt remain at present until the end of the war. I think this is wise ' , „■ , n »• BTJRGON. December 2. 1914.