14775- FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION. AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES WHICH HAVE SINCE ITS INTRODUCTION INTO ENGLAND. GENERAL LIBRARY University of BY HENRY FAWCETT, M.P., て FELLOW OF TRINITY HALL, AND PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1878. [The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.] PREFACE. IN the autumn of last year I delivered at Cambridge a course of Lectures on Free Trade and Protection. One of the chief objects I had in view was to endeavour to explain the causes which have retarded the progress of Free Trade, and which have enabled Protectionists still to occupy so strong a position on the Continent, in America, and in many of our Colonies. I first thought of publishing these Lectures almost in the form in which they were delivered; but I afterwards came to the conclusion that it would be better, for many reasons, to adopt a different arrangement, and I have consequently divided the book into six chapters. I have had occasion frequently to refer to Mr. Frederick Martin's Statesman's Year Book, and I have also derived great assistance from the admirably-arranged Statistical Abstracts which are published annually by the Board of Trade. Whenever I have required additional information bearing on the subjects to which these Abstracts refer, it has always been most readily supplied to me by two |