The British Jugernath: Free trade! Fair trade!! Reciprocity!!! Retaliation!!!!

Fair Trade! Reciprocity! Retaliation! Such are the cries that have been raised by those who have felt the evils of Free Trade, without fully realising the mischievous principle...

What is the nature of a country-life that it should breed such a vampire,--such a monster of iniquity,--such a “squanderer of national wealth” as the landlord whom your Free-tra...

I have already stated that Mill, when he allows that which Herbert Spencer terms “political bias,”--and Luigi Cossa terms his “_narrow philosophic utilitarianism_,” to warp his...

The Pagoda tree is _no myth_. It exists, but in a deplorably dilapidated condition, and bears but little fruit. Your car of Jugernāth has crushed its roots; your wheels have exc...

Don’t you see, what a fallacy underlies your cry for cheap bread. Does the consumer eat nothing but bread? Is everything to be sacrificed to the consumer? Don’t you see that che...

_Applied_ mathematics are not always sound; for example, in applying mathematics to Engineering problems, it is by no means uncommon to find that they appear to err most egregio...

Although the rise of wages is, in fact, to some extent, the work of protection, I am not proud of it; for trades unionism is protection of an extreme character, generally narrow...

You remind me, my friend, of the Irishman who complained that he never served on a jury without finding himself associated with eleven of the most obstinate pig-headed men conce...

Your friend, John Bright, with his usual disregard for accuracy, describes the large landlord as the “squanderer and absorber of national wealth,” but seeing that the total rent...

“Look!” you say, “at the visible signs of prosperity caused by free trade, our annual imports are in excess of our exports by £100,000,000. This represents the annual accumulati...

“In 1846, the working classes overthrew protectionism in England, and in 1878 the same classes, _wherever they have obtained predominant influence_, are carrying into practice t...

At the earlier part of this century Ireland showed great capabilities for improvement and national prosperity, and (in spite of the somewhat selfish policy of England, which did...

I have still another serious charge to bring against your Right Hon’ble Ruler, who pompously lays before you statistics to show that, since the introduction of Free Trade, paupe...

I have not the slightest doubt, that you will tell me that Ireland is _not ruined_, that she was never before in so satisfactory condition, and that you will bring forward ingen...

Even the _free_ importation of Total importations of wheat foreign corn could very little in 1881 = 17,000,000 quarters affect the interest of the farmers as against 23,728 prop...

I have already shown the utter failure of the prophecies of your Free Trade Prophets, now let me show the failure of the prophecies of your Right Hon’ble Friends with regard to...

(10.) Emigration of productive Free trade encourages the labour is loss of capital. immigration of productive The Minister of War labour to Protectionist in France asserts that...

(26.) The accumulation of wealth is increasing more rapidly in Protectionist France than in England, in spite of a disastrous war, a heavy war indemnity, a civil war, and an uns...

(1.) Every improvement in the Free Trade has ruined circumstances of the society agricultural industry. Can it tends, either directly be an improvement in the or indirectly, to...

I think you will admit, that if a statesman, pretending to govern by rules of political economy, should make very gross, misleading statements regarding the results of a particu...

Now, my Friend, I am not sanguine enough to expect a patient hearing from you whilst I revile that idol which you have set up with sound of sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and othe...

“That which strikes me most in the English politics of our own times, is its _littleness_. Everything in England is done with a view to keep place” (conserver les portefeuilles)...

Free trade is that idol which England worships, but which brings in its train disaster, bankruptcy, pauperism, drunkenness, and crime. It is Free trade that is destroying Englan...

Your Right Hon’ble Ruler ascribes the rise of wages and consequent prosperity to the beneficial action of Free Trade. If this were the case, wages ought to be depressed, or at a...

One conclusion at which the Commission of 1882 arrived was, that the agricultural labourers were “never in a better position.” When, however, we analyze the evidence on which th...

I see, my Friend, that you are bringing out your trump card. “Behold!” you argue “the unfortunate condition to which America has been reduced by her protectionist policy; she ha...

My Idolatrous Compatriot! Were it not for the gravity of the situation, it would be amusing to watch the self-complacent smile of conscious superiority which you assume, when de...