Excerpt from "Shells", National Finance, Imperial Preference, Liberalism: Three SpeechesHardly less important is the removal of the restrictions and embar goes which, though they may be for the moment profitable to this or that particular trade, are hampering and throttling trade at large at the expense of the producer and consumer alikefi In my opinion, the war restrictions have become, now that the war is over, simply a disguised system of Protection. Another of our new masters of administration, Sir Auckland Geddes, who is temporarily run ning the Board of Trade, got nearer the truth than perhaps he knew in an ingenious phrase which I see he dropped the other day about nursing the baby. That is exactly what it is - nursing' the baby. Protection everywhere, and at all times, in all shapes, could not be more tersely or more happily described.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.