Author: Cobden Club

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-18

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780656840670

Excerpt from The Revolt of Protectionists in Germany Against Their Own Tariff What strange aberration had seized the minds of that particular group of convinced Protectionists that they should suddenly revolt against Protection? How did it come about that a powerful section of an industry whose prosperity has been depicted in such glowing colours by our own Tariff Reformers should, after thirty years, find the benefits of the Protective policy so irksome as to lead them to express the desire that they should be left to be enjoyed rather by others than themselves? Here is a story which deserves to be told for the benefit of our public in general and those engaged in the iron and steel trade in particular. Let us, first, briefly describe the general conditions of the industry which is the subject of our tale, and for this purpose we can do no better than use the evidence supplied by Germans themselves - more particularly by the authors of the above-mentioned petition, who, in their anxiety to prove their case for the abolition of import duties on iron and steel, did not hesitate to speak with commendable frankness and to lift the veil from the mysteries of their 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.