Here, in this 1886 book, George examines the pressing issues of free trade and protectionism... issues that continue to thwart and challenge our economies today. How do tariffs impact production and revenue? Do high wages necessitate protectionism? What is lacking in arguments for free trade? What are the strengths and weaknesses of both free trade and protectionism? George answers these questions, and others, in this incisive work. ALSO FROM COSIMO: George's Progress and Poverty, The Science of Political Economy, A Perplexed Philosopher, The Condition of Labor, and Social Problems.

    Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886*. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... assembled in Richmond, Va., representing our American workingmen in the convention of the Knights of Labor. That congress, THAT ORGANIZATION IS THE REPLY 'which is being made by peaceable laborers to the rifle-diet advice, the strychnine business, and the hand-grenade business, and club business advice by the Chicago, New York. Philadelphia, and other large papers in this country. These men are assembled in self-defense. The conflict is the struggle between liberty and authority--authority in any and every form. Those who are in authority tell the working' men that if they want to enjoy the law and the protection of the law. they must render a cheerful obedience to the law. Why a man, when he flogs his slave for disobedience tells him the same thing. Your honor, according to your construction of sentence, or the reason which you propose as a portion of the ground work upon which you expect to render your proposed sentence, you deny the right of Americans to DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THE RIFLE DIET, and to protest against these outrageous things, to object to the strychnine business. These are the things that have made us what we are. If there be any wrong in me I am the product of these conditions. I am the creature of circumstance; I am the effect of a cause. Now, where is that cause? What is that cause? But, if it comes to that, the right of free speech, the right of free press, the right of peaceable assemblage, and the right of self.defense is denied to the workingmen; if that is going to be denied us by the courts of law, what is going to be the result? Why, the workingmen will immediately say as a matter of necessity, "Why, of what use to us is the law? WHAT IS THE CONSTITUTION FOR? Of what value is it to us? It certainly must belong to somebody. Yes, it ...

    Known for his path-breaking research in Industrial Chemistry, he earned his D.Sc. from Edinburgh University in 1887. He was an indefatigable patriot with a saintly self-less character.Ray was born in 1861. As a young under-graduate student of Edinburgh University in 1885, Ray sent his essay India: Before and After the Mutiny for a competition organised by the University. Though considered the best entry, the essay was not awarded for obvious reasons. The essay shows the young talent's maturity and patriotism. Ray somehow got it published in a book form in 1886.