Sixty Years of Progress: And the New Fiscal Policy (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Kingdom scarcely more than parochial. Concentration on his own department has warped his judgment.

The new movement is helped forward not only by the commanding personality of the leader, but by the combination of many influences.

Among the industrials and the merchants, how few are as prosperous as they would wish! Many think they would do better if the foreigner were out of the way. There are those interested in the land, who sigh for a return to protection. Rents have declined. It is hoped that they would increase with higher prices for produce. And then there are the workers. They are the many; and the many govern. Speakers on both sides appeal to the workers. Protectionists insist on the numbers Of the unemployed who would be in employment it foreign goods were kept out Of our home markets. From the other side the workers hear Of the cruel burden of taxes on food, with no possible compensation in higher wages or more work to do. How few Of those who most enthusiastically applaud Mr. Chamber lain's oratory and read his persuasive speeches have examined, or could examine and collate, the facts for themselves! The reports of long speeches are repugnant. How much more repugnant are hundreds of pages Of statistics! Never has a question been before the public of which it would be more true to say, using the words Of Mr. Burke, there are but very few who are capable of comparing and digesting what passes before their eyes at different times and occasions, so as to be able to form the whole into a distinct system.'

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