What Is Free Trade?

the same manner as protection; or, if the expression be preferred, that p

ose effect is to augment the difference between the price of consumption and that of produc

t the less obstacles because they are artificially created, and that our well-being is more advanced by freedo

o the same towards us, it is evident that we are duped. Let us, then, make treaties of commerce upon the basis of a just reci

ed by the protectionist principle. They are only a little more inconsistent than the

strate this

the inhabitants of N*w Y*rk became uneasy, and said: "M*ntr**l is overwhelming us with its productions; this must be attended to." They established, therefore, a corps of Obstruc

It would have been far better to have left things in their original position, for then we would not have been put to the expense of building our road, and afterwards of creating difficulties. In the name of M*ntr**l I come to propose to you not to renounce at once our system of mutual obstacles, for this would be acting according to a principle, and we despise principles as much

; this is a misfortune. Those which we ourselves create, injure our purchases; this is a second misfortune. We have no power over the first, but the second is entirely dependent upon ourselves. Let us then at least

uined if the embarrassments of the road were not carefully weighed and exactly equalized between N*w Y*rk and M*ntr**l. There would be more difficulty in going than in coming; in exportation than in importation. We would be with regard to N*w Y*rk, in the inferior condition in

the mouths of rivers have always prospere

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then prospered

rwhelming importation, tributes, ruinous competition. In short, he succeeded in determining the assembly to continue their system of obstacles, and I can now point out a certain country where you may see r