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CHAPTER III

THE TANGLES OF A TARIFF

Tariff Reformers of the last decade found considerable difficulty in reconciling the claims of home industries and Imperial preferences, agrarian and manufacturing interests, tariff for revenue, tariff for Protection, and tariff for retaliation. To adjust the respective interests of producers and consumers within these islands and the Empire as purchasers of foods, raw materials, semi-manufactured and fully-manufactured goods, was found by experience to require considerable dexterity. Yet this task was child's play as compared with that which awaits our New Protectionists. For upon this earlier scheme they are called upon to superimpose the new war pattern of a world made up of friends, enemies, and

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