Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

Collection:: Economics Books

1170 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V in the interests of each Colony concerned, and of the Empire collectively, that the Imperial Parliament should be invited to legislate in a direction contrary to the established com- mercial policy of this country ? Her Majesty’s Government are bound to say that the measure proposed by the Colonial Governments seems to them inconsistent with those principles of free trade which they believe to be alone permanently conducive to commercial prosperity, nor, as far as they are aware, has any attempt been made to show that any great practical benefit is expected to be derived from reciprocal tariff arrangements between the Australasian Colonies. At all events I do not find anywhere among the papers which have reached me those strong representations and illustrations of the utility or necessity of the measure which I think might fairly be expected to be adduced as weighing against its undeniable inconveniences. It is, indeed, stated in an address before me that the prohibition of differential customs treatment ‘ operates to the serious prejudice of the various producing interests of the Australian Colonies’. 1 understand this and similar expressions to mean that it is desired to give a special stimulus or premium to the Colonial producers and manu- facturers, and to afford them the same advantages in a neighbouring Colony over the producers and manufacturers of all other parts of the Empire and of foreign countries, as they would have within their own Colony under a system of protective duties. What is termed reciprocity is thus, in reality, protection. It is, of course, unnecessary for me to observe that, whilst Her Majesty’s Government feel bound to take every proper opportunity of urging upon the Colonies, as well as upon foreign Governments, the great advantages which they believe to accrue to every country which adopts a policy of free trade, they have relinquished all interference with the imposition by a Colonial Legislature of equal duties upon goods from all places, although those duties may really have the effect of protection to the native producer. But a proposition that, in one part of the Empire, com- mercial privileges should be granted to the inhabitants of certain other parts of the Empire, to the exclusion and prejudice of the rest of Her Majesty’s subjects, is an altogether different question, and I would earnestly request your Government to consider what effect it may have upon the relations between the Colonies and this country.

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