Protection Under the Guise of Free-Trade as Practised by Great Britain and Ireland Compared with Protection as Practised by the United States of Ameri

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Excerpt from Protection Under the Guise of Free-Trade as Practised by Great Britain and Ireland Compared With Protection as Practised by the United States of America Lord salisbury, when addressing the Chamber of Com merce in Manchester on the 17th of October last, as reported by the London Morning Post, said, Everywhere we see arising around us a thick wall of protection cutting off the ave nues of commerce. This increase in protection is due not only to faulty theories. If that were the case we might hope that the Spreading of a sounder doctrine and the increase of communications would induce people and governments to give up theories of which the hollowness has been proved. The real cause of the increase of protective duties is the establish ment of those great military forces which are increasing every year in every one of the larger countries of this hemisphere, which constitute a permanent drain on the forces of industry, a prominent danger to the interests of commerce, and which impose upon the governments which feel themselves bound to maintain these forces the necessity of finding some way that shall not too heavily gall the interests and susceptibilities of the people. After expressing his surprise that more enlightened doctrines have not hitherto had some effect on legislation, he went on to say that it was a matter of extreme surprise that the great agricultural country of the world - the United States consents to submit, for the sake of some portions of its citizens, to so heavy and specious a voluntary taxation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.