THE PROTECTIVE SYSTEM
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Gloves may be had it shall be supposed from a
French maker for the value of two shi!lings a
pair. An Englishman stands up and says that he
can make gloves of the same kind for three shil-
lings, and therefore, for the sake of encouraging
British commerce, it is expedient to pass law to
prohibit the introduction of French gloves at two
shillings, in order that those who choose to wear
gloves may be obliged to take them from the En-
glishman at three.


When you buy pair of French gloves it is
clear that they are paid for in something. You
have the substantial evidence that you did not get
them for nothing, and so has every body else
They must have been paid for either with
goods of English produce, with goods Of some
kind (gold and silver included) which has been
brought from abroad with goods of English pro-
duce, or with bills which are only an order for
hence instead of today. Unless an Englishman
has the art of getting any thing for nothing, in
one or other of these ways must they infallibly
have been been paid for. Here then, are at all
events two shiIlings accounted for out ofth three
which are as fairly expended for the benefit of
British producers and manufacturers of some kind
as they would be if the gloves were brought from
British glove-maker at the same price. They
are paid for to the Frenchman in, It may be- Shef-
field goods But if the glove-malSer procures a
law that gloves shall not be brought from France,
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glove-maker may obtain employment and trade to
the amount oftwo shillings, but it is equally plain
that the Sheffield man must lose it.


So much for the part which consists of the two
shillings. Next for the part which consists the
other one. And this, says the glove maker, is to
be clear gain to British commerce, and it is a
horrible wrong to be deprived of it. Now mark
thejuggle, look sharply to the shuffling Of the
balls. If the wearer of gloves is to be fore
ed to expend a shilling more upon the glove
maker, he must expend shilling less upon
somebody. 1t may be that he would not have
expended it at Sheffield, but at Birmingham :: OF