Protection and Bad Times; With Special Reference to the Political Economy of English Colonization (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. ENGLAND IN HEE EMPLBE. 1. England and others-- 2. Foreign States; Reciprocity by Treaty-- 3. The Semi-civilised; Opening-up Markets-- 4. England's Colonies. 1. England and others.--We have seen that England has certain national and natural superiorities in production; and that to give full scope to her profitable privileges of free-production she requires little else than the security of free-exchange. We have reviewed the national or local conditions of these right opportunities and right rewards of productive energy. We now turn to the wider area of conditions which exist beyond the actual limits of the British Isles. And if these may be termed international, they must be held to include the strictly "international" which exist between Englishmen and all foreigners, as well as the "intranational" which subsist between the various British communities which hold so many points of varied productive vantage ground over the face of the earth. Thus are we led to acknowledge the political as well as the economical element of the subject. There was an old toast of the Pitt Club, "Ships, Colonies, and Commerce." Its accepted signification was "to conquer and occupy fertile spots of the earth, and bind them up in one close trade with England." There is now a larger signification for this toast which the new spirit of free-trade would suggest; and this may be worded "people and cultivate the earth's surface, and let those who are best able exchange from land to land the best products of each; and let their wages be the profits due to him who supplies the wants of his fellows." England's mission, beyond her own shores, so far as economical progress or prosperity is concerned, is to secure free assured trade over as large a...