Facts and Figures the Basis of Economic Science (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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I could only bring them to completion at this date, June, 1904, and I have sent them to press without such complete revision and condensation as would be suitable, because if they are to have any influence, now is the time when the facts given Should be known.

I submit them for what they may be worth, in the h0pe that they may at least lead to a more complete investigation on the lines indicated, and in some measure do away with the delusions that exist for want of definition in the terms and demonstration in the methods by which the great body of the unorganized consumers of this country are subjected to privation under a policy now miscalled Protection.

If the facts can be made plain as to the small relative number of those who attempt to secure profits by taxes on imports compared to the very large number of those who pay taxes that the government does not receive; and also as compared to the relatively much greater number of the persons directly interested in free exports and therefore in free imports, there may be little difficulty in taking the tariff question out of partisan politics and adjusting duties on imports on a basis of true protection.

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