Report of the Proceedings of the International Free Trade Congress
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Excerpt from Report of the Proceedings of the International Free Trade Congress: London, August, 1908 The Congress, of which this volume contains the Report, was suggested at a private dinner given by Mr. Russell Rea at the House of Commons towards the close of the Parliamentary Session of 1907. The suggestion was made by Mr. John de Witt Warner and Mr. Harvey N. Shepard, two American Free Traders, who were among Mr. Rea´s guests on the occasion. It was heartily supported by the late Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who was also present, and who promised, if the Congress were held, to give every assistance in his power to make it a success. His death prevented him from fulfilling that promise; but the Committee of the Cobden Club, to whom the task of summoning the Congress was entrusted, desire here to acknowledge their great indebtedness to Mr. Asquith for the readiness with which he assumed as his own the promise of his predecessor, and for the manner in which he carried it out. The Congress was the first of its kind, and was the most important and representative gathering of Free Traders that has ever been held. The United States, Canada, Australia, India, and every country in Europe, except Norway, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece, and Turkey, were represented at it; and the delegations from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States were specially large and distinguished. The discussions were on a high level, and they revealed a startling identity of experience as to the operation and effect of protective tariffs. They showed that everywhere these tariffs operated in the interest of capital and against labour. They showed that wherever the people of a country were dependent on foreign sources for any portion of their food supply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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