 Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured so fast into the home market, as to deprive all at once many thousands of our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence.  An Essay on the External Corn Trade - Page 200by Robert Torrens - 1829 - 477 pagesFull view - About this book
 | H. W. Furber - Free trade - 1884 - 540 pages
...gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and ciri-umspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. The disorder which this would occasion might no doubt be very considerable. It would in all probability,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1884 - 604 pages
...gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...thousands of our people of their ordinary employment and sensible impression upon the general employment of the people. But a great pan of al the different... | |
 | VAN BUREN DENSLOW - 1888 - 826 pages
...been so far extended as to employ a great number of hands. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence." The looseness of Dr. Smith's specification will appear when we consider that each of the classes he... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - Economics - 1888 - 846 pages
...been 80 far extended as to employ a great number of hands. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence." The looseness of Dr. Smith's specification will appear when we consider that each of the classes he... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - Economics - 1888 - 854 pages
...far exteud«l aa to employ a great number of hands. Were those high duties and prohibition? tafcr-r. away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured go fast in1." the home market, as to deprive all at once many thousaujs of our people of their ordinary... | |
 | Robert Peel, George Peel - Prime ministers - 1899 - 642 pages
...circumspection. If high duties and prohibitions were taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods might be poured so fast into the home market as to deprive many thousands of their ordinary employment." Such was the view of a great writer on free trade, and... | |
 | George Armitage-Smith - Free trade - 1898 - 252 pages
...reserve and circumspection", since its sudden adoption would destroy the protected industries, and " deprive all at once many thousands of our people of...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence". Although the system of protection prevailing when Adam Smith wrote had originated in a measure of public... | |
 | Robert Peel - Great Britain - 1899 - 640 pages
...circumspection. If high duties and prohibitions were taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods might be poured so fast into the home market as to deprive many thousands of their ordinary employment." Such was the view of a great writer on free trade, and... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 484 pages
...gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. The disorder which this would occasion might no doubt be very considerable. It would in all probability,... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 328 pages
...gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence." 2 " The very bad policy of one country may render it in some measure dangerous and imprudent to establish... | |
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