State aid and state interference. Illustrated by results in commerce and industry

Baden-Powell George Smyth Sir 1847-1898

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THE THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE /y STATE AID STATE INTEKFEKENCE. Z33fpopulation during period more than one-third. The American citizen with (iv.1 intelligent puts up Failure Protection in United States. 63of it affects him but little inProtection because his of the vast interior.absorbing occupation opening up The assured success of this internal development, willwith the ebb ofcoupled foreign capital, gradually overcome both the heedless vis inertice of manhood and visthe moliva of vestedsuffrage knowing interests. 64 State Aid and State Interference. CHAPTER III. BOUNTIES. 1. Bounties never to succeed. 2. to revivelikely Attempts Trade in the United States. 3. SimilarShipping attempts in France. 1. In above all other schemes andBounties, State interference assumes most policies, cunningly the andand most outsidesuccessfully trappings semblance of State aid. Under the of assist-guise the native and discouragement to theance to foreign a Governmentof a hasarticle,producer given many won for itself from an and popularity ignorant the device of insti.thoughtless people by simple a And the more their tuting Bounty system. their own the more theirof trades,ignorance of their own true the moreinnocence interests, these fostered classes admire and a Govern-support to them Bountiesment which promises protect by foreign competition.against Bounties.

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• Tariff
• Free trade

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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THE
THE LIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
RIVERSIDE/ySTATE AID
STATE INTEKFEKENCE.Z33<&vs:rp
STATE AID
STATE INTEKEEKENCE.
ILLUSTRATED BY RESULTS IN COMMERCE
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BY
GEOKGE F.S.S.BADEN-POWELL, M.A., F.R.A.S.,
LONDON :
CHAPMAN AND HALL, Limited,
W.C.HENRIETTA STREET,
1882.
Reserved.All BightsHP/7/5
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London :
andR. Sons, Taylor,Clay,
BREAD E.C.STREET HILL,PREFACE.
There come nations when,upon epochs rising
to all a blind dash is made insuperior experience,
some unlooked-for direction. This is an infatuation
of the national brain which in the briefdestroys,
of its the hard-won results of centuriesperiod rage,
of toil and
progress.
A nation comes into and with sur-being grows
till it attains to stature : itrapidityprising great
on and uses the of a Samson. But,puts strength
that thein those it notdays unfrequently happens
nation sets itself to all the foundationssapsuddenly
: the off of theof its togreatness permit cutting
Delilahseven locks of its And the
mightiness.
Interference.of its destruction is Government
fallen under theHas in these latterEngland, days,
Inter-of such an influence ? Governmentglamour
where ivate hasference can enter pr judgmentonlyvi Preface.
to itself in the embrace ofbeen beguiled place
in in recentAnd years,Authority. England,
andin Matters of Politics has striven,Authority
some to in the affectionsstriven with effect, supplant
and beneficialof the that far more wholesome
people
rested the of Politicalfaith which teachingsupon
the surebecause these were basedEconomy upon
and certain of experience.warranty
thus flatBut if Rationalism in Politics is heresy
in the of this is it so in the eyeseyes Authority,
of the nation ? Theof the great intelligent portion
answer is to be found in the publicfast-growing
of statistical and the wide-information,appreciation
of are calledthis sciencespread study legislators
to ignore.upon
of the most ofOne the dealtimportant problems
with Political is the of theby Economy question
effect of State And itaction. is the ofby analysis
achieved results that we can best tell as awhether,
matter of the State assists most or mostfact, ;injures
whether its action is best described the term Aidby
or the term Interference.
The direct influences theState, action,by working
of land and labour and and other matterseducation,
of the first moment to Ireland and to Scotland and
t< as well as to all But inthe world. thisEngland,