. John Bull's open door: a plea for it to be shut. ods is to be carried on without contributing its quotato the revenue ? 52 JOHN BULLS OPEN DOOR : CHAPTER XVI. The British Navy and the Benefits theForeigner derives therefrom. All this while I have been dealing with various faults in theloose system which at present prevails in the obtaining of JohnBulls Customs revenue. I hope I have made it clear to my readersthat whichever way you look at the question, you will see that theforeigner has a remarkable advantage; in fact it certainly showsthat he is getting the benefit of the so-called Free Tr
. John Bull's open door: a plea for it to be shut. ods is to be carried on without contributing its quotato the revenue ? 52 JOHN BULLS OPEN DOOR : CHAPTER XVI. The British Navy and the Benefits theForeigner derives therefrom. All this while I have been dealing with various faults in theloose system which at present prevails in the obtaining of JohnBulls Customs revenue. I hope I have made it clear to my readersthat whichever way you look at the question, you will see that theforeigner has a remarkable advantage; in fact it certainly showsthat he is getting the benefit of the so-called Free Trade, and notourselves. I would now ask leave to call your attention to a furtherbenefit that he gets at our expense. I have explained part of the daily routine of buying andobtaining goods from abroad, but I have not up to the presentasked you to follow these goods from the loading port onthe Continent or elsewhere to the landing stage in this country. > 9 w Pw ^ •13 ? wft ft H >H »—I < H l-H H I—« W w. Wt^- A PLEA FOR IT TO BE SHUT. 53 In no case can I see there is an exception to the need ofa safeguard in time of war to the convoy of this vast com-merce across the seas to the shores of the United Kingdom. We have, most fortunately, not been involved in warwith any foreign power for a great number of years, but itwill be, I am sure, very apparent to the majority of myreaders, that were such a disastrous event to happen as ourbeing involved in a war of any kind with a maritime power,our ocean commerce would have to be protected. I go so far also to emphasize another home truth whichis equally apparent, that these shores themselves would haveto be protected, and here I hope I bring you clearly to thepoint to which I now wish to give prominence. What has this magnificent British Navy of ours, com-prising hundreds of battle ships, cruisers, torpedo boats, des-troyers, etc., to do with the Tariff Reform question ? Well,the answer is this, viz. ;^that the British Na
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