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Excerpt from The Tariff Reform Mirage This book records the ten years' history of an agitation - the most highly organized, the most lavishly financed, the most loudly advertised of our time. When the "Missionary of Empire" in 1903 recanted his former fiscal faith, he caused many of his countrymen to examine afresh the foundations of their economic belief, and Free Traders have no reason to regret the revival of the study of the principles upon which British commercial supremacy is based. And since the Unionist Party made "Tariff Reform" the first constructive plank in its platform, the output of printed matter on the subject has been so enormous that it might well have been supposed that the whole field of controversy and criticism was covered. But it is not so. Mr. Dowding, in this book, has added to the library which the Fiscal Question has called forth a volume of a new kind, which I, should be equally welcomed by both sides. 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.