4to. pp. x, [1 leaf], 103, 242. original cloth (discoloured, extremitis frayed, institutional bookplate). First Edition. Bigelow, a prominent woollen manufacturer and inventor of many improvements in textile machinery, notably the power-loom for weaving carpets, was a protectionist and played a major role in the framing of the complicated system of duties on wool and woollens adopted by the United States in 1867. In the present work (his best according to Palgrave), he attempted to show that the growth of English commerce was not due to free trade, but to other causes, and that the removal of duties by England had no damaging effect. ".protection is, unquestionably, the universal rule. While, in form and degree, it may vary among the nations, as the peculiar circumstances of each case require, the principle itself is never abandoned.Those who insist that the United States ought to renounce and for ever abjure all measures designed to protect and promote their own industry, do, in fact, propose that we should leave the line of safe precedent, and all the paths of familiar experience, to launch out on the dangerous sea of untried experiment. The issue of such a voyage could not fail to be one of infinite danger to the country; if, indeed, it should not end in the total wreck of our national independence and prosperity." (p. 60) The work includes a mass of statistical documentation. Sabin 5290. Palgrave II p. 140.

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The Tariff Question Considered In Regard To The Policy Of England And The Interests Of The United States. With Statistical and Comparative Tables.

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Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1862.

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1862

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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