Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — Who Believes In Free Trade? [ARTICLE]

Who Believes In Free Trade?

From a Speech in Congress by Thomas B. Reed. On the face of the earth to-day there are but two sets of people who believe in free trade—the Democratic party and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with Ireland suppressed. Russia, the granary of Europe, has abandoned free trade. France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the Dominion of Canada, that child of Britain herself, have all joined the army of Protection. It is the instinct of humanity against the assumptions of the book men. It is the wisdom of the race against the wisdom of the few.