Remarks By lie Editor.
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Our intelligent readers will observe that Free
Trade has not at all answered eur question. simple
asit was, in regard to Shipping. He seems even
to have confouuded Navigation with Commerce
Let US therefore state our illustrative problem over
again. in such shape that he cansot misappre-
hend it:


Let us suppose that all nations were now recciv-
ing each others products on terms of fair aud
jus, reciprocity of equal revenue duties. Now
suppose Great Britain were to enact tha, all goods
imported into her domnions in foreign vessels
should pay ten per cent. addiuona, or that al
goods imported in her own vessels should be enti-
ted to deduction OF ter per cent. from the regu-
lar duties which is in effect the same thing. Can
any man fail to see that this, if unopPosed, would
inevitably throw all the transportetion OF products
10 and from the British dominions into British bot
toms An American vessel undeniably could not
take Flour or Cotton to Liverpool il her cargo
would be charged ten per cent higher duties than
II imported in British vessel; and, having mo
aopoly Of the eut freight the British vessels would
take niney-nine hwdredths of the home freight,
OF course. No argument can be needed TO show
that shipping interest cannot live on freights one
way in opposition 10 spirited rival, carrying both
ways. The inevitable result would be monopoly
Of the carrying trade between herself and all ether
nations (tending to monopoly of all naviga,ien)
BY yhe skipping of Great Britain, unless o;hcr ma
Goas should have the consideration and common
sense to say to that gsasping power " This is a
game that TWO can play at. Abandon your dis
cnminatoa III favor Of your own shipping, or we
xiii coun,ervail ii by similar exactiou il favor of
ears"


This statement, simple a. i. is, cmbodies the
whole matter at issue between US and the Free
Trader. They ID as wrong as delusion can make
them III the assumption that the injuries inflicted
BY such "a policy as We have attributed to Great
Britain are mutual. As well might they say that
The man who strikes me with club Will hurt him
self as much a. me. He may DO So indeed, in
'he result; but not If / act on the nsn-resistanI
principles Of modern Free Trade.


The history of Great Britain refu;es the Free
= 4'ade theory most strikingly. Two hundred years
