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 %%AA<<   <<1%%   A PROTECTIONISM; iA< g it = t THE ··ISM WHICH TEACHES THAT WASTE if <A T l HY I MAKES WEALTH [1885] A A%;<<»AT  , , PREFACE i. URING the last fifteen years we have had two great Q is vt questions to discuss: the restoration of the currency iiiv A and civil—service reform. Neither of these questions has yet reached a satisfactory solution, but both are on the way - toward such a result. The next great effort to strip 0H the evils entailed on us by the Civil \Var will consist in the re- peal of those taxes which one man was enabled to levy on g;Q; another, under cover of the taxes which the government e had to lay to carry on the war. I have taken my share in S sl`ug  the discussion of the first two questions, and I expect to 2£iYXp AY take my share in the discussion of the third. 3] j * ` °I· have written this book as a contribution to a popular g agitation. I have not troubled myself to keep or to throw r of? scientific or professional dignity. I have tried to make 51; ys.f» Amy point as directly and effectively as I could for the readers whom I address, viz., the intelligent voters of all degrees of general culture, who need to have it explained syis  _.r‘ t 0 them what protectionism is and how it works. I have ig ilri I therefore pushed the controversy just as hard as I could, ris and have used plain language, just as I have always done Ybefore in what I have written on this subject. I must there- tnvv gilirr ffore forego the hope that I have given any more pleasure ° Snow than formerly to the advocates of protectionism.