Show Tariff Policy of Victoria and New South From Both New South Wales and Victoria are young and are inhabited by men of the same and capital and labor oscillate freely between both use substantially the same methods and forms of while against the larger territory of New South Wales may he set the superior climate and easier development of its southern Whatever may be the balance of the natural whether of climate or is on the side of whose and well watered territory gained for on its first the well-deserved title of Australia The striking and ultimate point of difference between the two countries is their fiscal Since 1866 Victoria has lived under a system of gradually increasing while the policy of New South Wales has been in the one of Free According to all Protectionist Victoria should be prosperous and New South Wales there should be variety and growth in the the one stagnation in the At least the progress of Victoria ought to have been more rapid than that of New South because she has added to the natural advantages which she already the artificial which are claimed for a Protective in neither of these conclusions is while both countries have been phenomenally New South Wales has prospered the one of two conclusions w either that certain special influences have caused the more J rapid of New South Dr M not felt in Victor has retarded mf 1 assisted the develops natural superiority ers of all schools admit T in certain depart 1 National life is a f W prosperity and generally allowed an increase in population dC of agricultural JL manufacturing a of foreign an in or an the public are all dL of health and a concurrence of such over a lengthened period an increase in material Accepting these tests of our comparison proceeds we examine the the two Colonies as regards foreign and the time when bAi of them adhered to Free from which we find ing to all these indications of Victoria was then much the better In 1866 out-numbered New South Wg in by A t foreign commerce was larger she WlL greater area of land under her manufactures ink well while the New South Wales were few she was ahead and her revenue greater by next to the years which we observe that Wales gradually bettered i position in every province of and fetters of Protection Victoria receded in She gave way first jd department of foreign next in in she her old agriculture J accumulation of facts Jf from any one of m that the rate of progress South Wales under Free M that o has been greater than toria under Mt It There is' music in all men had M |