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PREFACE

It is not my purpose in these chapters to traverse the whole field of controversy between Protectionists and Free Traders, cultivated so intensively during the years following the Chamberlain proposals of 1903-1905. During this war the fiscal problem has taken a new aspect. Protectionists have found in the associations and divisions among nations imposed by war, and the necessities or expediencies of war economics, a new fund of hope and opportunity for the achievement of their objects. During the war the enemy's trade is part of the enemy's war resources, and is rightly made an object of attack. In the general atmosphere of international antagonism it is not difficult to represent this same trade as inimical to our interests and a potential source of danger to our country

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