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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 59
Chats with Manufacturers
The newspaper is the great educator of the nineteenth century. There is no force compared with it. It is book, pulpit, platform, forum, all in one. And there is not an interest—religious, literary, commercial, scientific, agricultural, or mechanical—that is not within its grasp.
Talmage.
Chats with Manufacturers.
The question of how far Protection will tend to relieve the prevailing depression is daily bulking more and more largely in men's thoughts, and those—both employers and employed—into whose souls the iron of hard times is entering deeply, are looking wistfully forward to a Protectionist tariff to provide a haven of comparative rest from the storm-tossing of dull times. There can be no question but that Protection has greatly advanced in public favour of late—to an ever increasing number it appears to be the one tangible panacea for the ills we are now bearing. Of all men, our local manufacturers should be au fait with this question, for to them its being satisfactorily answered is fraught with the most important results. We have taken steps to obtain expressions of opinion on this subject from some of the leading representatives of local industries, and propose placing them before our readers in a aeries of short articles. We first waited on