Excerpt from British Industries Under Free Trade: Essays by Experts

The object of the present volume is to supply a detailed answer to the question whether British industries have or have not flourished under Free Trade. The volume is necessarily limited in size, and the time allowed for its preparation was not long. It has therefore been impossible to deal with all the industries that might well have been here represented. But the ground covered is sufficiently wide to give an indication of our national industry as a whole, and special care has been taken to include those industries which are often pointed to by Protectionists as awful examples of the policy of free imports. The writers of the following essays are not pedants who are content to mutter exploded shibboleths. They are practical business men, writing of things that they know of their personal knowledge.

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