Excerpt from Free Trade: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Its Operation This being so, it will at once be perceived that much of the existing depression in trade is dependent on the partial and unequal action of free trade, and hence that the cause of much, but not all, of the suffering of the poorer classes is derived not from causes which are more or less under their own control, but from the adverse operation of a stem and unyielding principle upon which they cannot possibly possess any direct influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.