Trade and Tariffs

Excerpt from Trade and Tariffs

The present work is an elaboration of a slight sketch published, under another title, in 1904. The object of that attempt, as of this, was to deal with the fiscal problem under all of its various aspects - historical, statistical, economic, political, social, and ethical. Incomplete the book inevitably remains, under all of these heads; but it may at least indicate to the general reader a number of facts and considerations of which the propaganda of "tariff reform" either takes no account or gives no account that is trustworthy.

It is perhaps unnecessary to say that such an attempt implies no failure to appreciate the many treatises and handbooks on free trade already available. On the contrary, the author would take this opportunity to urge upon every reader to peruse in particular the admirable Handbook to the Tariff Question published by the Free Trade Union; and to express his own indebtedness not only to that but to the many books and special pamphlets upon which his notes show him to have drawn for information.

In an inquiry covering so much statistical ground it is practically impossible to escape error; and the author can but plead that he has taken as much pains over the whole matter as the scanty leisures of parliamentary and platform life permit of.

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