The Whole Hog Book; Being George's Thoro' Going Work Protection or Free-Trade? Rendered Into Words of One Syllable, and Illustrated with Pictures - Or, a Dry Subject Made Juicy (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...place to bear a tax to keep up a play house for shows that thus the place might be "built up," how comes it that they do not kick at the tax put on goods to "build up" the land they live in? There is in short, but one safe thing for those who rule the State to do, and that is to keep their hands off trade. Just let them stand to one side and give it free scope; each move they make to "help" it can but do it harm, for at the most all that law can do is to help some trades at the cost of all the rest. There is no more need to nurse and guide trade than to teach birds how to fly and when to go south and when to come back. God, who has set a law in the bird by which it acts, has not left the race of man void of such a sense for trade as a bird has for flight. A free field in which a man, can make the most of his time and strength of hand or head--that is, work in the line in which he can bring forth the most--and then have his choice as to how and where he will trade what he thus makes--that is the right plan. To fence him in with tax bars, and force him to work in lines that would not be his free choice, and that do not pay so well, and this in the name of "aid," is no wise plan. True, such a plan makes more "work," and if it were "work" that was to be sought, all would be well. But no sane man wants work, he wants the things that are to be got by work. This point should be borne in mind. Free to think, free to speak, free to pray in the way we think right, free to come, free to go. But lo they stop short at Free to trade. This, they think, is not one of the rights of man. The word so scares the mass of men these days that when they hear it they seem like to take a fit. Strange ...