What Protection Does for the Farmer and Labourer: A Chapter of Agricultural History (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The two former editions of this pamphlet have received some not unfriendly criticisms from Protectionist Farmers. It is impossible, says one critic in a letter which was communicated to me, to follow him in his argument that, because prices were augmented by Protection, Farmers sustained a loss instead of a gain, as he begs the question all the way through. In the first place, Rents were not fixed on the assumption that wheat would make the maximum price, but by supply and demand. It is a curious commentary on this statement that another Protectionist Farmer, writing about the same time, says.

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