facilities which exist at
not exist at Canton
a.
a...
This
Hengstong
elsewhere.
do
I need not have dwelt large
point because I do not suppose
single individual, who
argued)
the
Memorial really believes that the Stamp
duty actually proposed would make
...
any place on the least a preferential emporium to Hong Kong. I have shown that any warehouse
establishment here would be
very injurious,
the analogy, which
and therefore in the
I drew between this plan and Singapore I contented myself with arguing that if a heavy and complicated
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Colony wonderfully similar to this in
its
general business transactions, it follows that an application here of the
an us
extremely simple
principle
agreeably lighter tariff will
ach
probably
that there
word would
move
satisfactorily
I do not presume to assert with any certainty in the result. I keep strictly to the logical inference
that there
are
more probabilities in
favor of a reasonable Stamp duty
meeting
our
requirements than any
other law. Like
many other problems
in political economy, if it fail, it
very likely fail for
want of
support from its advocates and
as the Government now