HELPING THE HOMELAND.
IMPORT DUTY. ON FOREIGN MANUFACTURED.
GOODS SUGGESTED
IMPERIAL OBLIGATIONS OF THE
COLONY.
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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONG KONG DAILY PRÈSS.”);
SIR, the student of local mentality the air of detachment that afflicte this community as t happqpings of world-wide and even of Empire inboxess has always been
as then seen and ordained by the British Government of the day is not a matter of question bat of
historical record.
Into the details of the Treation a matter of wonder. Whether, this of Chuempi and of Nanking that is due to our being an Island Comgave the island to Britain it is ant munity and history tells us that necessary to enter here, the point.] islanders are potoriously self-con-that matters to us to-day is that tred: or whether to the fact that both Treaties set out the intention the notable among us when we rise of the Government that, the Island' in the morning look down on the was to be a place of residence for world and acquire a superior Britisk merchants, an anchorage point of view; or whether it should for their shipping, and a contre mornly be laid at the doer of our for British trade with the Chinese old friend mental atrophy "—the Empire, fact remains, The idea that such happeninga remate as they may be are liable to affect vitally the lives and well-being of all of us here never serma to weer to the bulk of qur residents at all.
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would be settled by our dear old' stand by, a Commission.
Another point, even if it dij ruiao. the cost of living-what about it! Wo have hero roughly a million of residenta not of British blood, but who prefer to live here because of the protection afforded them by the British flag, the greater economic opportunities, they enjoy, and much amonition of European vivilisation as they desi bat sannot yet got
their own distressful country. Why should they not be called upon to pay something towards the cost of that protection and these amoni- tes Especially, as with the money such a duty would provide the Government could assure them of greater protection and farther
Amenities.
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British Goods and Standards. Now take the other side, look at the advantages? Try to visualize Hong Kong as truly a British trade distributing centre, fulfilling her destiny. See the Colony with British motor cars on her streets, British Alms in her cinemas, British goods in her stores: British machines in hor"factories & living advertisement of British goods and British standards, as last with her place in British" herself. Hong Kong might." "Buying
at. long last get British mana fae- turers to build their factories here -here where they enn got cheap sites, cheap labour, cheap electric power and stable conditione-in- end of in China itself where their factories have but, too often gonė up in fumes, and "strikes and the exactions of the local officinis and militarists are always liable to make
the
yun."
business impossible.
With the addition to the revenue that such duties would make avail- able the Government coulit proceed with the many badly-needed deve- lepments now hung up for want of funds. We could have a City Hall
Hong Kong and the Empire. Now when Federation, or Empire consists of Commonwealth,
a number of widely scattered staten as dors "our to-day it stands to reason that every unit, every stato in that Commonwealth must work Ta descend then from the general for the commonweal, must pull its to the particular within these last weight in the term if it is to retain six months news has come to us of its position as a functioning nad two happenings of world-wide, and essay member The question. "mora particularly of Empire, inthen is does Hoon Kong to-day portence, as to the latter in fact falfil this condition? of such importance that it may well The statistics published by our mean the end of the Empire as we Import and Export Department know it; and if either event has tell us that at presopt somewhere received" any mention beyond an round ten per cent. of our trade is Occasional leader in the local in British Goods. Again 1 ask you Press, or created any stire unong in Hong Kong justifying its exist- the business community, or been new 38 a distributing hport For the cause of any intelligent anti-Britain and the Empire 7 eipation as to the effect it may
Ignoring statistics a mere cursory have on the erimmunity as a whole inspection of the stores would con- vince anyone of the low level to have yet te lewe of it. The events I refer to are:--
which trade in British goods has and Thoutre worthy of the Colony; Great Britain the Centre and fallen. Of course, we cannot alto-fo' gaol that would be a real home brains of the Empire, owing to get or blame our merchants--they for the Government's guests; a net- unprecedented economic conditions, must live And undoubtedly the work of rondy opening up the bean- Great Britain, for a hundred years high prices of Britain's manufaction of the New Territory; in fact the world's financial centre and the tres has ruined their market, all the improvements required to Portreas of Gold, has been forced That and the fact that American bring us up-to-the-minute na off the Gold Standardi
goods can be lought cheaper "here community. We might even be able Great Britain, for a hundred than in the USA.; German goods to get something off the rates, and" yours a free-trade nation, for a cheaper than in Germany; Japanese the spirit duties. hundred years the preacher of Koods cheaper than in Japan: in: free-trade among all nations, fer fact that the British trader has to many years the last of the free-trile compete not only with foreign nations, has at last in self-defence goods, but with, foreign dumped and if her people were not to starve goods. been forced into the ranks of the profetionist nations.
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A Fine Gesture.
The
We learned just the other day that Great Britain had granted a preferencs to imports from Malaya. That the Homeland will do so with- out getting a corresponding preier-
That the foregoing is a deplor. able state of affairs I venture to
ence on her own manufactures is think a Britons worth the name hardly to be expected. Nor is it will agree, and as-is there ato be expected that the present pro remedy? That there is a remedy is
tectionist government in its endeu- what I now hope to show, and with much longer allow the Chown your to extend British" traile will the greater courage that the Mother Colonies to be exploited by all the innd has (as always) shown us the world at the expense of its own
manufacturers and people.
way.
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The Mothor, Country. Ever since the perilous state of the mother country has been made plain to her people we have read from day to day how the popainen friar peer to pensaat bas rallied to the support of the Exchequer. Wo have read of the rush to pay in-
The Remedy! come tax before it was due, of
The remedy is (and I submit it jewels sold by auction and the pro with all duo humility, and the ceeds remitted to the Government, memory that kind friends have ro- of donations to the Chancellor, of minded me of the fact that is the people boring British "-in ¦ ¦ mere mechanical " I can have na fact of the great wave of self-deny-knowledge of economics) the remedy ing patriotism that has swept the 18- country, and that wo her sons hope may yet carry her on the flood-tide of sound finance. into the safe baven of solvaney.
We read of the Great Dominions doing their part, granting a Pre- ference on British manufactured goods; we even read of insignificant Crown Colonies, mero specke on the blus of the Caribbenu, subscribing their poor Ave hundred pounds to "the good pause. But of anything
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An Import Duty on ull manufac fured goods not of Empire Origin
:
But what a fine gesture it would be if this Colony did now and of" her own initiative what she may eventually have to do at the bid- her name would resound round the ding of the Colonial Office How
Empire as one Colony bound" on doing her duty in this time of stresa and crisis
And remember, by so doing we would be
HELPING THE HOMELAND AND OURSELVES
JAMES DALZIEL.
to be used or consumell, within the | *** Colony; all manufactured goods landed in the Colony for distribu- and leave the Colony fren of auch tion outside the Colony to enter:
duty on Transil Püss.
Of course, there are many objec tions to the scheme, but none of them, as I see them, vital. I could off hand without undue strain; but Stute at last twenty-seven objections
doing in this small but even to-day then, like most of us, I cari see at Nourishing Colony we read-not
least twenty-eight objections to the one word. As for any intercat wo other fellow's scheme at any time, seem to take in these Empire shakespecially if he happens to tramp on ing events, we might as well be
my corns. So I am going to let the Jiving in Mars,
other fellow do the objecting. With one exception--that it would raise And if any community should for the cost of living, I must deal
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Wake Up Hong Kong1
with that.
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Protection and, the Homeland,
In Great Britain the result has been, exactly the opposite. Since
its own sake take a live interest' in worldwide affairs it is, this Human Colony of Hong Kong. For the world fo-day is in a state of dux, anything may happen, in politica new orientations are the drder of the day; and it behovs Protection came in the cost of dach and overy immunity that wishes to preserve it entity as living has fallen. The duty here Boca to itself desirable to ask would fall" chiefly on machinery, itself "Are wo fulfilling our dea-motor cars, hardware; and the cust tiny as ordained in the begin- of machinery, motor cars, and hand- "Wing
ware-doer not greatly affect the | Now the beginning of Hong Kong life of the Commonality. Tho news koostis baly dates frota cheaper cotton goods, which da, January 20, 1841, and the reason could if found advisable be exempt to-be and destiny of this Colony from duty. Such details, of course,
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