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CHAPTER XI.
UNIVERSAL FREE TRADE AND BRITISH MANUFACTURING SUPRE-
MACY-THE IDEAL PICTURE: PARTIAL FREE TRADE AND
BRITISH MANUFACTURING DISTRESS-THE ACTUAL FACT.
25. The extension of manufacture not resident in causes put
forward by free-traders-viz., foreign demand for corn.
Sir Robert Peel shows that this cause is not powerful
enough to produce desired effect
26. Remote consequences of remission of duties not considered
by free-traders, who remain content with immediate
effects
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27. The central force controlling our trade and commerce aban-
doned by the free-traders. Cobden's so-called "natural
regulator" has broken down
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66 NEW DOCTRINES TO SUIT FRESH CONDITIONS."
28. Free trade does not tend to induce commercial equality
among nations whose original surroundings are unequal
29. Free trade does not tend to carry off supplies in the best and
cheapest fashion, as Cobden foretold. It allows whole
markets to become acquired by our rivals
CHAPTER XIII.
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FREE TRADE AND THE PRODUCTIVE SOURCES OF THE NATION:
THE SUPPOSED CONFLICT BETWEEN
MANUFACTURE AND
AGRICULTURE HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A STRUGGLE BETWEEN
CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION.
30. So far as our internal trade is concerned, free trade has only
exchanged one monopoly for another
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