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Excerpt from Protection Paves the Path of Prosperity: An Exposure of Free Food Folly and FictionIn setting forth the merits of Protection as compared with Free Trade, as herein I have endeavoured to do, it seems well to state that any bias I may have in the matter does not arise from personal motives. I am not the owner of a single acre of land in the United Kingdom, and if the establishment of Protection affected me in a pecuniary sense, it w...

Excerpt from Free Trade a Failure, From the FirstHowever, it is no good crying over spilt milk, and therefore I am only alluding to the subject because, in endeavouring to show that Free Trade failed, I do not wish to have it laid to my charge that I would have approved a continuance (without reduction) of the excessive corn duties which Sir Robert Peel abolished.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cl...

Excerpt from The Curse of CobdenismAlthough Free Trade came subsequently to my first appearance in the world, I confess that I did not begin to feel any doubt about its merits until near the end of the last century. The only apology I am able to make for having so long retained the opinions formed in youth, consists in the fact that my ideas of Cobdenism were not matured until I read Cobden's speeches, one of the most edifying of which is, in ...

Excerpt from The Curse of CobdenismAlthough Free Trade came subsequently to my first appearance in the world, I confess that I did not begin to feel any doubt about its merits until near the end of the last century. The only apology I am able to make for having so long retained the opinions formed in youth, consists in the fact that my ideas of Cobdenism were not matured until I read Cobden's speeches, one of the most edifying of which is, in ...

Excerpt from Free Trade a Failure, From the FirstHowever, it is no good crying over spilt milk, and therefore I am only alluding to the subject because, in endeavouring to show that Free Trade failed, I do not wish to have it laid to my charge that I would have approved a continuance (without reduction) of the excessive corn duties which Sir Robert Peel abolished.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cl...

Excerpt from Protection Paves the Path of Prosperity: An Exposure of Free Food Folly and Fiction In setting forth the merits of Protection as compared with Free Trade, as herein I have endeavoured to do, it seems well to state that any bias I may have in the matter does not arise from personal motives. I am not the owner of a single acre of land in the United Kingdom, and if the establishinent of Protection affected me in a pecuniary sense, i...