2 AUGUST 1913, Page 2

This is the same characteristic plea which is used by

advocates of protection all the world over in regard to infant industries. It was used again and again during the height of the fiscal controversy in respect of motor cars. We were asked to tax the foreign car in order that a British industry might get a chance to establish itself. When the industry was " built up," as Mr. Lloyd George would say, it would, we were told, " be time to consider the question of putting a duty on it."

Meantime conditions must be " equalized " by taxing the foreign car which had got an unfair start. At the same time it was urged that the luxury of the rich would very properly be taxed and the Treasury thereby benefited.