PREFACE.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

SOPHISMS OF PROTECTION. FIRST SERIES. INTRODUCTION.

I. ABUNDANCE SCARCITY.

II. OBSTACLE CAUSE.

III. EFFORT RESULT.

IV. EQUALIZING OF THE FACILITIES OF PRODUCTION.

V. OUR PRODUCTIONS ARE OVERLOADED WITH TAXES.

VI. BALANCE OF TRADE.

VII. PETITION FROM THE MANUFACTURERS OF CANDLES, WAX-LIGHTS,

VIII. DISCRIMINATING DUTIES.

IX. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY!

X. RECIPROCITY.

XI. ABSOLUTE PRICES.

XII. DOES PROTECTION RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES?

XIII. THEORY PRACTICE.

XIV. CONFLICTING PRINCIPLES.

XV. RECIPROCITY AGAIN.

XVI. OBSTRUCTED RIVERS PLEADING FOR THE PROHIBITIONISTS.

XVII. A NEGATIVE RAILROAD.

XVIII. "THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTE PRINCIPLES."

XIX. NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE.

XX. HUMAN LABOR NATIONAL LABOR.

XXI. RAW MATERIAL.

XXII. METAPHORS.

CONCLUSION.

SOPHISMS OF PROTECTION. SECOND SERIES.

I. NATURAL HISTORY OF SPOLIATION.

II. TWO SYSTEMS OF MORALS.

III. THE TWO HATCHETS.

IV. INFERIOR COUNCIL OF LABOR.

V. DEARNESS CHEAPNESS.

VI. TO ARTISANS AND LABORERS.

VII. A CHINESE STORY.

VIII. POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC.

IX. ROBBERY BY BOUNTIES.

X. THE TAX COLLECTOR.

XI. UTOPIAN IDEAS.

XII. SALT, POSTAGE, AND CUSTOMS.

XIII. THE THREE ALDERMEN.

XIV. SOMETHING ELSE.

XV. THE LITTLE ARSENAL OF THE FREE TRADER.

XVI. THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT HAND.

XVII. SUPREMACY BY LABOR.

SPOLIATION AND LAW. [16]

CAPITAL AND INTEREST.

Part I. Sophisms of Protection—First Series.
Part II. Sophisms of Protection—Second Series.
Part III. Spoliation and Law.
Part IV. Capital and Interest.

Translated from the Paris Edition of 1863.

NEW-YORK:
AMERICAN FREE TRADE LEAGUE.

1870.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1869, by
THE WESTERN NEWS COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the
Northern District of Illinois.