What Is Free Trade?

on; when, to put these means into practice, we are levelling roads, improving rivers, perfecting steamboats, est

their place of consumption, as near as possible to their price in that of production"-I would believe myself to be acting a culpable part toward

most complete certainty of having discovered an infallible means of bringing produce from all parts of the

reparatory studies, nor engineers, nor machinists, nor capital, nor stockholders, nor governmental assistance! There is no danger of shipwrecks

the contrary. It will not augment the number of office-holders, nor the exigencies of State; but the contrar

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tance, at Montreal, bear an increas

troubles and losses in our own person, or pay another for bearing them for us. Then come rivers, hills, accidents, heavy and muddy roads. These are so many difficulties to be overcome; in order to do which, causeways are constructed, bridges buil

ce difficulties in the way of the transportation of goods from one country to another. These men are called custom-house officers, and their effect is precisely similar to that of rutted and boggy roads. They retard and put obstacles in t

s have constructed a Northern railway which will cost us nothing. Nay, more, we w

les interposed between the United States and other nations, only at the same time to pay so many millions more in order to replace them by artificial obstacles, which have exact

the expenses of transportation, thirty dollars at New York. A similar article of Ne

a level with that of the New York one-the government, withal, paying numerous officials to attend t

us spend two or three millions in railways, and we will reduce it one-half. Evidently the resul

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usly and gravely practised? To be the dupe of another, is bad enough; but to employ all the forms and ceremonies of representation in order to cheat