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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391811420
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (114 download)
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Download or read book The "Barbarism" Of Protection written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The "Barbarism" Of Protection: An Open Letter to John Bright But these things, though they are at strange variance with your censure of our tariff, are not strange to our history. {these are what we have always claimed as the legitimate fruits of Protection. We have always said that Protection would secure higher wages to the operative; that higher wages would not only enable him to live in greater comfort and to educate his children, but would make him respect himself, keep sober, live cleanly, value the good opinion of his neighbors, and strive to rise in the world instead of ordering himself lowly and reverently to all his betters, and being content in that sphere of poverty, degradation, and ignorance to which it is blasphemously assumed Almighty God has been pleased to call him. We have always claimed that greater intelligence and higher ambi tions among workingmen would lead to improvements in machinery and methods of manufacture, so that not only greater excellence would be secured but eventually greater cheapness also. And it is a fact that, whereas, while we had a Free Trade tariff we could not compete with England in any considerable branch of manufacture, under a Protective tariff we are successfully competing with her in very many branches, and that many articles of our manufacture are sold in England itself because of their superiority to the Free Trade article. It'was said by them of old time, Mr. Bright, that a tree should be known by its fruits, and that men do not gather figs from thistles nor grapes from thorns. If the results of Protection in America are such as you and Mr. Potter described, how could you have the temerity to denounce Protection as barbarous? 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.
