CHAPTER VII 



HOME TRADE AND FOREIGN TRADE {conthmed) 



Sixth proposition. — In face of high foreign tariffs, 

 Great Britain's home trade gives more employ- 

 ment than an equal foreign trade. Therefore 

 Great Britain needs tariff reform. This cannot 

 be arranged until complete statistics of the home 

 trade have been collected and published. 



There is no country without a tariff. Great 

 Britain, the country that most fully practises free- 

 trading, has a tariff. And, strange to say, the 

 duties in this case are levied, not on articles 

 Great Britain makes freely herself, but on articles 

 of food, drink, and tobacco, none of which she 

 produces herself, and none of which, with the 

 possible exception of sugar, she ever can pro- 

 duce. 



Other countries, even British countries, impose 

 high duties on almost everything, in many cases 

 with the obvious intention of protecting as 

 effectively as possible their own home trade. 

 The question now to be considered is, who pays 

 the high duties to which British goods sent 

 abroad are everywhere liable ? It has been 

 publicly said and written by high authorities, 



So 



