Free Trade A Speech Delivered Before the Democratic Club, Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 9, 1848; With Extract from La Misère de la Philosophie (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Free Trade: A Speech Delivered Before the Democratic Club, Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 9, 1848; With Extract From La Misère De La Philosophie Then, all at once, a change of front was made? Ger many turned protectionist, at a moment when more than ever Free Trade seemed a necessity for her. The change was no doubt absurd but it may be explained. While Germany had been a corn-exporting country, the whole agricultural interest, not less than the whole shipping trade, had been ardent Free Traders. But in 1874, instead of exporting, Germany required large supplies of corn from abroad. About that time, Amer ica began to flood Europe with enormous supplies of cheap corn; wherever they went, they brought down the money revenue yielded by the land, and couse quently its rent; and from that moment, the agricultural interest, all over Europe, began to clamor for protection. 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.