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 classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.