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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 85, 12 April 1888, Page 3

fin replying to Mr Levestam, who charges - us wi\h wasting to lead him off the scent became w* natnially enough ohjeo\ed to being oharypd with that of which we w«r« perfectly innocent it seems that it is neceaeary for na .to s^y in 80 many words, that which we believed would be patent to all, th&t we do not pretend to assert that tin prioa of profcactsd goo's must under any oirottmatanoea whatever he raised above what they ate at present. For inetanoe, if -the price of iron were to go down to a Bbilling a ton it must stand to reason that the oosb of a ploogb woald be r:ducod to far below . what it is now, whether protected <■ r eo\ and yet suoh a reJaofcion in prioe would be .nsod by Mr Leveutam to show that prrteotion did sot of necessity mean increased oost. How. f allaoiona snoh an argument wonld be muat b« apparaut to even the dullest iatel. ltd*. And yet it ia preoiaaly suoh a line of reasoning that Mr Lives'. am falls baok upon when ha says that, becaaas the price of pro- . teoted hope is lower now thftn ib was when their market value all the world over was between three and .four times wbnt it is at pt^sont, therefore the argument ueed in the artiole to whioh be takes exception musb be based on false premisses. — Ed. N.E.M;J