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I am net satislicd v.-ltii that. I want to do sonietliing' 

 more for him, and for all the pc-or in this country. (' Hear, 

 lie.nr.') I want to redxice the cost of the living, and I 

 believe ifc can be done under this system. Thp.se duties 

 that I have spoken of will be paid in the main by tin 

 foreigner (cheers); they will ba the foreigner's contribu- 

 tion — and it is a very small oiio — to our national expendi- 

 ture; but they will bring in a great number of millions a. 

 year. 'What are we going to do with those miUions? We are 

 not going to bury them ; we ara not going to spend tliera. 

 ]!'e are going to vse them to reducz the cost of living and 

 the cost of food for the people of this country. (Cheers.) 

 There are politicians who tell you they are free-foodera. 

 (A laugh.) I suppose they do not know what they are 

 talking about. (Laughter.) There are no " freo-f coders " 

 in this country. (' Hear, hoar,' and cheers.) The tasa,tica 

 of food is very heavy, but these people seem to think fhat 

 there is only one kind of food. They seem to think that 

 you live by bread alone (renewed laughter). On the con- 

 trary, every labourer will tell you, every class in the 

 community knows, that wa have to live upon a good 

 number of other things as well, and most of them ate 

 heavily taxed. There are heavy taxes on tea, on sugar, on 

 coffee, on cocoa — and on tobac-co. I do not know whether 

 you agree with me, but I am rather inclined to agree with 

 the gentleman in the " Picbnack Papers," who said tliat 

 tobacco was meat and food to him. (Laughter.) Well, 

 all these millions which come from the pocket of the foreigner 

 we will give you back in reductions upon your tea and your 

 sugar, and I hope upon your tobacco. (Cheers.) W© can 

 afford to take off ild. a lb. en tea, a Jl. a lb. on sugar — 

 which is half the tax — and, as I have said, something on 

 tobaeco also. Now we will put tobacco on one side, and 

 ask, Whait is the effect of the reduction upon tea and sugar 

 alone? When the labourers go home from this m.eeting I 

 wish they would take their wives into constiltation. I wish 

 they would ask them, 'How m.uch tea do you use in the 

 week? How much sugar? ' Tlie Board of Trade say that 

 on an average every agricultural labourer's family 113.33 

 two-thirds of a lb. of tea and G lb. of sugar in the week. 

 If that be true, the saving up.)n the reduction on tea and 



