| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 41 |
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`Oh, that's part of the great 'appiness an' prosperity wot Owen makes out Free Trade brings,' said Crass with a jeering laugh. `I never said Free Trade brought happiness or prosperity,' said Owen. `Well, praps you didn't say exactly them words, but that's wot it amounts to.' `I never said anything of the kind. We've had Free Trade for the last fifty years and today most people are living in a condition of more or less abject poverty, and thousands are literally starving. When we had Protection things were worse still. Other countries have Protection and yet many of their people are glad to come here and work for starvation wages. The only difference between Free Trade and Protection is that under certain circumstances one might be a little worse that the other, but as remedies for Poverty, neither of them are of any real use whatever, for the simple reason that they |
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