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Page 179 - If you give a preferential treatment — that is, a better price — to your colonies, it must be a better price than that which, with unrestricted competition, is obtaining now. A better price to the producer means a more disagreeable price to the consumer ; and before we can formulate any propositions, or before we can invite our colonies to any kind of federation, what we have to know is, how far the people of this country would be disposed to support a policy of which, I imagine, the most prominent...
Page 103 - Articles the produce or manufacture of Belgium shall not be subject in the British Colonies to other or higher duties than those which are or may be imposed upon similar articles of British origin.