PROTECTION, POLITICAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9075, 8 June 1888, Page 3

PROTECTION, POLITICAL.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—As the 20 and 25 per cent, import protective tax will of course, as intended, exclude the imports, and as, consequently, the total of the tax proceeds will go straight to a very few tradesmen here, the anxious enquiry is, What are these few tradesmen going to do with the people's distrained money? and will Government appoint and pay supervisors over it ? Again, the conscientious of the recipients of it, like say Mr. Atkin and Mr. Garlick, will instantly advocate that England forthwith, in fairness and honour, exclude our mutton, and Sydney our flour ; which, most undoubtedly, would be our final kill-cow. Onlybut—some of us believe that Rightness is predestined to obtain and universally prevail. It will go ill with the adversary. What will England say of the exclusion ? It is thought that conveyance, freight, commission, &c., are ample protection. It is my deep conviction that tariff protectionism is Godless iniquity, congruous with Ben D'lsraeli, and with his close imitator Julius Vogel.—l am, &c., W. E. Sadler. June 6, 1888.