England's Ruin, Discussed in Sixteen Letters to the Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. by A.M.S. MethuenMethuen & Company, 1905 - 127 páginas |
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50 per cent abroad adverse balance alkali America bought Britain British burden cheap cheaply coal Colonial Preference Colonists commerce consumer Corn Laws cost of living cotton decrease demand dumped duty on foreign earnings Empire England English enormous export trade exports and imports favour figures forced foreign countries foreign imports France free on board Free Trade Germany Government grow higher home trade home-made Imperial import duties increase industries iron island Italy JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN labour land landlords less LETTER London Lord George Bentinck luxuries machinery manufactured imports merchants millions most-favoured-nation nation necessary patriotism place a duty poor population price of wheat produce profit prosperity Protection Protectionist raise the price raw materials reduce result Retaliation rich rise rivals ruined sell ships South Africa suffer sugar supply tariff things United Kingdom wages wealth wheat whole workmen
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Página 44 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Página 126 - Protection for his own individual benefit ; but it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in those places which are the abode of men whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow...
Página 98 - After all, there are many things which you do not now make, many things for which we have a great capacity of production — leave them to us as you have left them hitherto.
Página 126 - I shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist who, from less honourable motives, clamours for protection because it conduces to his own individual benefit ; but it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of good- will in...
Página 123 - IN vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.
Página 30 - I have observed with deep regret the continued distress in the manufacturing districts of the country. " The sufferings and privations which have resulted from it have been borne with exemplary patience and fortitude.
Página 28 - So visible was the misery of the manufacturing towns that a man of sensibility could hardly bear to pass through them. Everywhere he found filth and nakedness, and plaintive voices, and wasted forms, and haggard faces. Politicians who had never been thought alarmists began to tremble for the very foundations of society.
Página 52 - But meanwhile, what are the facts? The year 1900 was the record year of British trade. The exports were the largest we had ever known. The year 1902 — last year — was nearly as good, and yet, if you will compare your trade in 1872, thirty years ago, with the trade of 1902 — the export trade — you will find that there has been a moderate increase of twenty-two millions. That, I think, is something like 7^ per cent.
Página 27 - The poor-rates were in some districts 2os. in the pound. At the time of which I am speaking the large towns were described by eye-witnesses as bearing the appearance of beleaguered cities ; so dreadful was the destitution and the misery which prevailed in them. People walked the streets like gaunt shadows, and not like human beings. There were bread riots in every town. There were rick burnings on all the countrysides. We were on the verge of a revolution when the Corn Laws were abolished.
Página 93 - While it is most important that this question should have your careful and continuous attention, there is no reason whatever...