WHAT FREE TRADE HAS DONE FOR ENGLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13480, 3 July 1907, Page 4

WHAT FREE TRADE HAS DONE FOR ENGLAND.

} r ir Y . ou ,. c . otTCfon dents. M. lvirkbrido and x«. («. Lwingtou, have, in my opinion, the right end of the stick in this importanti matter. The way some folk fro out of their way to run down the Old Country one would think she could not hold up her head but for the colonies, and was fast dwindling down t.o bo a deserted sort of a hole Mi tit; it was host to get out of, and that quickly, i 1 have met sunn: with such views who had never been farther than Onehunga. Jn any I case, 1 feel confident she can still afford I to pay us for our mutton for a few yours! to come. J think wo can safely admit that 1 ' she is the richest nation on the face of this■ globe, that her principal city is the clearing-1 hottso of the world, and that her shipping | earns £90,000,000 yearly, in carrying her exports and imports. Again, never in her | whole history lias she hold such largo !amounts of foreign securities as she does at. present. Other correspondents may talk , about. her paupers ami Ik* aliens. You I i would think we had nut any here. Free , trade has made her, and open ports will keep her. hat odds if we grow the food wlion sho is a bio ami willing to pay for if. hut is wanted in England is not proteclion, but to get the classes off the backs of the musses, the (rue producers of all wealth, of which they do not. get a fair or ! just share. Bkiton.