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...First Trader: Do you know anything good...
...platform is ambiguous as to whether the Party favors a "protective tariff," called "Safeguarding" in England. However Leader MacDonald, a staunch Free Trader, warned that even if some form of protection should have to be adopted he would by no means favor a tariff ("safeguarding") but instead would place an absolute embargo on too-cheap, too-competitive foreign goods...
...Small business, the business of ordinary merchants and of investors with limited capital, has been adverse rather than prosperous, during recent years. This has reacted unfavorably on the small trader and upon labor, so that more failures have occurred during the present Administration than in any comparable period of history...
Since no words can cloak the fact that Sir William is a protectionist and Mr. Churchill a free trader, that fundamental disagreement between them was dismissed jocularly by "Jix" thus: "I should like to point out that this is the first occasion I have spoken in public since I made one of my indiscreet [protectionist] speeches some months...
ADVENTURES or AN AFRICAN SLAVER, Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea: His Own Story as told in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer & Now Edited with an Introduction by Malcolm Cowley...