The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions of Scenery & Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England: with Letters from Ireland: Also "Free Trade and the League;" a Biographical History, Volume 2James Ainsworth, 1853 - Free trade |
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Page 39
... protection has been given to that great manufacture which gives employment to hundreds of thousands - nay , to millions I may say within the great district that encircles your city ? What protection has the cotton trade had ? I answer ...
... protection has been given to that great manufacture which gives employment to hundreds of thousands - nay , to millions I may say within the great district that encircles your city ? What protection has the cotton trade had ? I answer ...
Page 40
... protection - remove from us your well - meant but inju- dicious care - leave us alone , let our talent , our capital , and our invention follow their free course , and what I see before me to - day removes , if I ever had , any doubt ...
... protection - remove from us your well - meant but inju- dicious care - leave us alone , let our talent , our capital , and our invention follow their free course , and what I see before me to - day removes , if I ever had , any doubt ...
Page 53
... protecting duties ; and these have been so loud in declaiming and writing against free trade as inimical to native industry , and in favour of fiscal protections as essential to its prospe- rity , that foreigners , who naturally look to ...
... protecting duties ; and these have been so loud in declaiming and writing against free trade as inimical to native industry , and in favour of fiscal protections as essential to its prospe- rity , that foreigners , who naturally look to ...
Page 54
... been retarded and depressed by protection . It was his argument which converted the landlords and ultimately repealed the Corn Laws.-A. S. It was therefore in no degree owing to any luke 54 FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE .
... been retarded and depressed by protection . It was his argument which converted the landlords and ultimately repealed the Corn Laws.-A. S. It was therefore in no degree owing to any luke 54 FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE .
Page 58
... other nations , and prevent them from following you in your ( successful !! ) policy of protection and prohibition . That , however , is no . excuse for the folly and ingratitude of the English 58 FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE .
... other nations , and prevent them from following you in your ( successful !! ) policy of protection and prohibition . That , however , is no . excuse for the folly and ingratitude of the English 58 FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE .
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