The American lesson of the free trade struggle in England

Trumbull Matthew Mark D 1894

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• Langue: English
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THE AMERICAN LESSON
THE FREE TRADE STRUGGLE
IN ENGLAND.
GENERAL M. M. TRUMBULL.
CHICAGO:
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Copyright, 1884,
M. M. Trumbtjll.ByDEDICATION.
TO THE
RIGHT HON. JOHN BRIGHT, M.P.,
THE ELOQUENT FRIEND AND
DEFENDER OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC,
THE ENLIGHTENED ADVOCATE OF
PEACE AND FREE TRADE
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AMONG NATIONS
THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY
HIS FRIEND AND DISCIPLE.
M. M. TRUMBULL.LETTER FROM JOHN BRIGHT.
132 Piccadilly, London,
August 8, 1882.
Deak Sib : I onght to have thanked you sooner for
"sending me your useful and very interesting History of
the Free Trade Struggle in England." I hope it may be
widely read, and be of much use. But I do not expect
.your people will copy from us—they will learn from what
is passing around them how much they suffer from your
present barbarous tariff.
There are persons amongst as,who are anxious fornot
a reform of your tariff. They say you cannot have an
export trade, and cannot compete with us in foreign mar-
kets; that we have complete control of markets where
is no high tariff; and where areduties considerable, that
we can surmount them where you cannot, and that we
have a great advantage over in everyyou market but
own.your
Again, in your mercantile marine your condition is mis-
humiliatingerable and owing to your protective system,
which has driven your ships off the ocean. Surely, there
intelligenceis enough in your country to perceive this,
and it can only require discussion to bring about a change,
which would bless every honest industry amongst you.
The shackles have been struck from the limbs of the
slave, and they cannot remain to fetter the freedom of
your industries.
I hope your movement will advance—the world expects
it from you. England and America, with free institutions
and Free Trade, will lead the world to something better
than the past.
I am very truly yours,
John Beiqht.
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