Fair trade is one step in the direction of protection.
FOOTNOTES:
[30] Fortnightly Review, July, 1871.
[31] The Mail, December 19th, 1883.
[CHAPTER IX.]
ISOLATION OF JUGERNATH.
Carlyle has said—“There are thirty millions of people in Great Britain, mostly fools.”
You remind me, my friend, of the Irishman who complained that he never served on a jury without finding himself associated with eleven of the most obstinate pig-headed men conceivable.
Are all other nations, except England, obstinate, and pig-headed? Is the shrewd American blind to his own interest? Are the phlegmatic Dutchman, the thrifty Belgian, the clever Frenchman, the philosophical German, simpletons and idiots, as Mr. Bright is pleased to call all those who do not implicitly accept the gospel of free trade.
Might not Carlyle’s pithy remark teach a little humility?