How true in the case of Free Trade!
[64] The landlordism of the days before Famine (1847) never “recovered its strength or its primitive ways. For the landlord, there came of the Famine the Encumbered Estates Court. For the small farmer and tenant class there floated up the American Emigrant ships.” (‘History of Our Own Times,’ Justin Macarthy.)
[65] New Ireland, by A. M. Sullivan, p. 133.
[66] Adam Smith contradicts himself about rent—in one set of passages he says it is the cause, and in another the effect, of prices.
[67] Macleod’s Economics, p. 117.
[68] Political Economy, by J. S. Mill, Bk. II. Chap. XVI.
[69] Profr. Bonamy Price.
[70] Profr. Bonamy Price.
[71] Political Economy, Bastiat.
[72] “Legal plunder has two roots. One of them is in human egotism, the other is in false philanthropy.” (Political Economy, Bastiat.)