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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12824, 4 November 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)

be far wiser to " play a waiting game," and watch developments. For the moment our firtst duty seems to be to save the implement men from" themselves. The Harvester Truse seems to have got on their nerves. What they need is- a little more "iroa" in their blood, a little more selfreliance and a little more confidence in tie loyalty of their fellow colonists and' customers, who 1 am persuaded will continue to stand by them, and so long as they continue to turn out " good goods" at fair prices will buy their implements and appreciate and support their enterprise. But to clamour for special legislation, to meet a trouble which may never come is, to my mind, highly injudicious, and besides if we consent to the imposition pf a 45 or 50 per cent, duty to help the implement men, what could we say. if the boot men and "the clotihing men and the furniture men came along and asked for the same thing; they might be able to make out just as good a case, and could we deny them?