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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.1899 Excerpt: ... The Arguments of Professor Fawcett What has the other side to say for itself? The Case for Protection should include an attempt at a categorical reply to the arguments against Protection. In essaying this task I will not copy the method of some among the Free-trade controversialists, who postulate in their own language what they declare to be the case of the Protectionists, and then proceed to demolish it, to their own satisfaction. It is an easier dialectical work thus to state in your own words the arguments of your opponents before traversing them; but it is not the fairest method, nor that which commends itself to an impartial student of your controversy. In order to avoid it, I will extract the case of the Free-traders by actual quotations from their own works, and will select for that purpose one of the ablest of the past champions of Free-trade and one of the ablest of living writers on the same side--to wit, the late Professor Fawcett and Professor Bastable. I do not think that there is any argument of consequence on their side which Fawcett's 'Free-trade and Protection' and Professor Bastable's 'Theory of International Trade' do not contain between them. Fawcett, in the fourth chapter of' Free-trade and Protection,' states the Protectionist case (for purposes of demolition) under thirteen heads; in so doing he falls into the easy and bad method of controversy to which I have just referred, and fails to state the Protectionist position as clearly and adequately as could be desired. But I will not stay to grumble at him on that score; for he is in the main a moderate and fair-minded writer--a fact which will, I trust, justify to my readers my selection of his book, seeing that the arguments of an extravagant extremist on any side are ever the easiest...
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