Free Trade and the Empire

Originally published in 1904. The chief object of this pamphlet is to set forth in a connected form the main aspects of the great tariff controversy now for some time before the public; to treat the question more deeply and fully than the exigencies of the platform usually allow; and at the same time to treat it as far as may be from a scientific and as little as possible from a party point of view. The question is one both of economics and politics and it raises the most important and delicate and complicated issues in both subjects.