This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...markets burdened by British legislation with one hundred millions of dollars annually, it would be an insult to tell us that her trade is free; if it be free there, so it is the world over. But the one hundred millions of dollars collected at her ports on the products of foreign lands are not merely customs dues; they ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...markets burdened by British legislation with one hundred millions of dollars annually, it would be an insult to tell us that her trade is free; if it be free there, so it is the world over. But the one hundred millions of dollars collected at her ports on the products of foreign lands are not merely customs dues; they are a protection to her fields, forests and factories. If British statesmen would merit the generous name they covet, let them first do the deed which would entitle them to it. At present they place this burden of one hundred millions of dollars on foreign industry where it suits their own interests. They don't remove it; and if trade be free there, so is it the world over. If protection to the looms and mills of Holland against the surrounding states of Europe made her the great hive of industry, made her prosperous and wealthy; if a similar policy produced similar effects successively in Old and New England, so, we believe, will it work the same change in Canada. The free trader must admit this much--that these countries have, under high protection, outstripped their neighbours in the race of prosperity. The Australian colonies have given us the best comment, by practical men, upon free trade and protection as policies and not truths. In New Zealand and Tasmania, each under a single government having command of the entire coast, the revenues are made up chiefly by customs. There could here be no rival trade, and no loss of trade as there would be in England, by any burden on the imports. In South'Australia, also, the chief port being isolated, and not capable of being used as an entrepot of trade with other parts of Australia, ad valorem duties are imposed. The case of New South Wales is entirely different. Sydney, the chief port, possesses ...
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