James Harrison
Published: 2018-02-14
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Excerpt from The Fallacies of Free Trade: A Paper Read Before the Driffield Farmers' Club The animated discussions at present taking place in all parts of the country have induced me to issue the following Paper, which was read by my Father, the late James Harrison, merchant, of Driflield, East Yorkshire, to the Driffield Farmers' Club, on the 9th December, 1851. The events of the last 30 years have naturally modified the full effect of many of the evils which he apprehended. He could not, of course, have anticipated the advance in corn prices, or, rather, the retarding of still lower ones, caused by the great discoveries of gold in Australia and California; the russian_war of 1853 to 1856; the American Civil War; the franco-italian and franco-german Wars, and many other events, which, by distracting the attention of the people of foreign countries to other matters, Withheld them from that keen competition, not only for the trade of their own lands, but for our home trade, upon which they now appear to have entered with such powers and opportunities as to be most in jurions to every merchant, manufacturer, and producer in this kingdom, and which, if not regulated by prudent legislation, upon the same reciprocal principles as influence men in their dealings with each other, will, I firmly believe, and much fear, fully justify the most gloomy forebodings of the author of the Fallacies of Free Trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.