Their whole structure is a tower of Babel that must end in confusion and disaster. We are told that freetrade England prospers more than protection Germany and France. I do not admit this in the light of her overcrowded poorhouses and emigrant ships hurrying their thousands to our tariffprotected shores. but supposing it. to be true for the sake of argument. then in reply. coupled with her less expensive armies. she has thtiven upon the loot of her conquests. upon the blood of her victims in India. Ireland. and the wretched debtors to her financial schemes in Turkey and Egypt. England would never have adopted a purely revenue tariff if Cobden and his kind had not believed that we and others would have been deceived into giving free port to English goods.
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