The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
CHAMBERLAIN
ON PROTECTION
Continued from First Page.
ter should be treated on it's merits, with
out entering on questions Of purely party

ter should be treated on it's merits with
out entering on questions Of purely party
IKE $50 ssss3ra:r3ss! q
Sees Signs OF Decay.
The late colonial secretary alluded to /
the recent visit he paid to Venice, When |
ne found st the Canpanile, which haq stood |
for centuries and which, when $IleS pre~s|
viously visited Venice, seemed as perma-
nent as the city itself, now assrnass OF |
ruins. He continued: - $E5st
1T dosnot say that I, anticipate -s,lch a
fate for the, British. empire but lido say
that see signs Of decay cracks and
crevices, showing that the foundations are
not broad and deep enough to sustain IT. I
Am I wrong to warn your
Adducing statistics. Mr. Chamberlain
contrasted the moderate increase Of ~
per cent in the export trade Of Great Brit,
ain and the increase Of 80 per cent in
her population since 1872; with the enor-
nous increases of trade in the United
States and Germany, and asked how the
country could expect to supportSits grow
ing population with itsa trade practically
stagnant for thirty years He proceeded:
ION the other hand the protected coun-
tries which you have been told, and I
myself one time believed, were going rap
idly to wreck and ruin, have progressed
infinitely better in proportion than our :
selves, and instead of, as, Golden believed,
our remaining the workshop for the world,
we are sending less and less of our manu-
features abroad, whilst the protected
countries are sending more and more of
their manufactures here. Thus our man
ufactured exports from e116,O00,0O0 in
1872 have gradually dwirdled to s73, 500, .
600 in 1902 to the protected countries Of
Europe and the United States. in the
same period our exports to >,non-nanu-
featuring countries like Egypt, China and
South America, have practically remained
unchanged . 49, 4 S;.7z
What Protection Accomplishes.z = y
.:Now what is the history Of protec-
ton? First there is tariff and no indus
tries. Then gradually primary industries
for which the country has natural facil-
titles grow up behind the tariff wall, Then
Esecondary industries Spring up; first. OF
|.necessaries, then of luxuriess until at least
l,all the ground is covered.E& ~. s..ga !,
1.-THE countries to which I have referred
are in different stages of the protective
|process. In the United States the process!
is completed. She produces everything
and excludes everything. There is NJ
trade to be done with her for a paltr.
= 6 shillings per head. -e..
Canada has been protective for a Ions
time. The principal industries are Their
and you can never get rid Of them, blu
the secondary industries have not We
been created and there is still an immens
trade open to YOU to, maintain and in
crease. Australasia, is less developed an
takes more than Canada. In, the Cap
there are practically no industries.
, With regard to his plan, Mr. Chamber
lain said he would state it briefly. H
|. proposed to put low duty, not exceedfn
2 shillings CAS- cents) a quarter on foreig
, corn (wheat, but none on corn from tn
: British possessions. He proposed, d ia
:: ON maize (corn), partly because ii forrne
= = the food of some of the very poores
:. among the population and partly becaus
f Lit was raw material as feeding stuff. ! H
proposed a corresponding tax on flour an
$ he would give special preference to: til
3 miller with the, object Of -establishir
I one of our: ancient industries and Of prt
+ venting a rush from the country to2:tf
: town, and also Of placing corn, offalaar
4 feeding stuffs more cheaply within tt
u possession Of the farmer. : --1.ss4.
! f. A small tax OF. about S per cent on TO
l. eignt meat and dairy produce would he in
: posed, excluding. bacon. which: Wasffest
e food Of so many of the poorest populatio
= Lastly he proposed to give substanti
i preference to the, colonies on wines IA siar
II fruits. III s# ;sS* b IN /. SIS & =