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CHAPTER XIX 



The Free Trade Sham Exposed — Employment 

 FOR Foreigners 



THE so-called " Free Trade " question should now 

 be tested in one or two simple ways. This false 

 system has still many misguided followers, and we do 

 not want to be caught napping again by doctrinaires of a 

 mendacious creed. 



It has pleased us to speak of Great Britain as a free 

 trading country and we have hitherto deluded ourselves 

 into the belief that we are reaUy and truly a nation of 

 bona fide free traders. 



A greater delusion never possessed a sensible, practical 

 people, nor was a greater deception ever practised by 

 political wire-pullers, who, solely for party purposes, go 

 through the hollow farce of keeping up this ridiculous 

 show. In the history of the British Parliament a more 

 monstrous sham than this free trade humbug has never 

 been set up before the British people with such remark- 

 able success. 



It is nothing but a party pretence, a political fraud of 

 the hollowest, most meretricious nature, and the wonder 

 is that we have been hoodwinked for so long a time. 



This free trade business may be likened unto a fiddle 

 upon which many and varying tunes may be played, a 

 most useful instrument ahke in the hands of Conserva- 



