Since we have tried and make a legal prescription of fraternity, capital does not dare to show up.
Category: Tariffs
TO MESSRS. THE MEMBER OF THE SEINE GENERAL COUNCIL
Why! Does England suffer because it pays less tariffs on coffee, sugar, wheat and cotton? This is here a really strange paradox.
TO THE EDITOR OF LE NATIONAL – II
There is no want of an example of a people who would have paid to be oppressed, from whom money has been snatched in order to bereave its freedom.
TO THE EDITOR OF LA PRESSE – II
The Americans are powerless in spinning cotton only because they earn more in doing something else.
TO THE EDITOR OF LA PRESSE – I
A tariff may have only one of these two objectives – revenue or protection.
TO THE TRADERS OF LE HAVRE – II
It is therefore easier and more loyal to assert the principle of commercial freedom first.
LETTER TO THE MONITEUR INDUSTRIEL
Protection creates losses for the national consumer that are way above the profits it grants to the national producer.
SECOND LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL DES DEBATS
Our current tariffs are calculated to cater for an order of things that will of course cease to be.
FIRST LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL DES DEBATS
Indeed I need to reason like land surveyors do, following the principle that all other things are equal.
COMMERCIAL FREEDOM
Vested interests, of which the monopoly benefits, lose a lot of their shine if they are wrongly vested, if they are acquired to the detriment of others.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURRIER FRANCAIS
Tariffs are not only a mean of taxation, they should also and mainly be a mean of protecting industry.
WHAT IS TRADE?
This doctrine is contradicted by facts as much as it is shocking to reason.
FREE TRADE IN ACTION
Where are the invasions, the floods of foreign products that were supposed to kill national labour in Switzerland?
PROFIT THEORY
Allow me to ransom your citizens, not only to the tune of my losses but beyond, and you will grant profits to my industry.
LARGE MEETING IN MANCHESTER
Progress occurred following the cuts in our tariffs, without any reciprocity on the part of France.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
I have often been surprised that Statesmen dared to endorse the responsibility of such a policy.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Do justice first, and then let charity follow in its wake.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Any restriction, which object is to prevent the purchase of things necessary for the sustenance of the people is untenable in principle, dire in fact, and must be abolished.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Trade being an exchange of equal values, a nation that refuses to buy cannot sell, and all restrictions to imports constitute an obstacle to exports.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Free labour is cheaper than slave labour.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
If the tax were collected this way you would not tolerate it, however, this is what the lord is doing in a different guise.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
The question is whether legislative power and political influence is to remain with the predators or with the working man.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Freedom of exchange will sooner or later be the rule in international transactions.
SEVENTH SPEECH
Free-trade is the cause, or at least one of the aspects of the great cause of the people, the masses, democracy.
INFLUENCE OF FREE-TRADE ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PEOPLES
And where did you see, my lords, that the freedom of transactions principle was purely, exclusively English?
FREEDOM HAS GIVEN BREAD TO THE BRITISH MASSES
However much reasoning is made about the other effects of the reform, this one is at least certain: THE MASSES ARE BETTER FED.
THE ENGLISH LEAGUE AND THE GERMAN LEAGUE
Prosperity in Germany cannot be attributed to the simultaneous actions of two opposite principles.
LETTER FROM VICTOR CONSIDERANT AND ANSWER FROM F. BASTIAT
Thus your proposal can be summed up as deterring good industries in order to encourage the bad ones.
LE NATIONAL
What we are fighting against about the customs is not the idea of tax but the idea of feudality.
DEMOCRACY AND FREE-TRADE
A philosopher in front of whom movement was refuted started to walk.
ABOUT THE BELGIAN TREATY
In all things, there is a sign that progress is ongoing, namely simplification.
FUTILITY OF PROTECTION FOR AGRICULTURE
There is only one good policy, that of Justice.
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE YEAR 1846
In order to feed the people, we are appealing to this very freedom, which was said to be a principle of suffering and ruin.
LIMITS THAT THE FREE-TRADE ASSOCIATION SETS TO ITSELF
The word “freedom” implies in itself the absence of fraud and violence. Because fraud and violence infringe freedom.
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE DISTRICT OF SAINT-SEVER
Does the French nation want to be forever in tutelage and to call on its government to intervene in every matter?
SECOND LETTER TO MR. DE LAMARTINE
Thus it is really true! no man on earth was granted the privilege of intellectual universality.
A QUESTION ASKED TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Admitting iron freely when it is meant for construction is a measure that is positive on only one aspect, which is that it is the most offensive satire that can be made against the prohibitive regime.
ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH TARIFFS
Protection is plunder indeed because it is the privilege to operate scarcity through legislation, creating dearth in order to abuse the buyer.
ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH TARIFFS
It will then be necessary to increase them, which is to say to look for the cure in making the disease worse.
ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH TARIFFS
Every Englishman must be allowed to buy in the cheapest market, and sell in the dearest.
ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH TARIFFS
It is not quite certain that retaliation is not as dire to those who implement it as to those against whom it is implemented.
ABOUT THE FUTURE OF WINE TRADE
The day will come, I hope, when you will be able to convert your war ships into merchant ships and that we will give back our young soldiers to the industry.
REFLECTIONS ON THE PETITIONS FROM BORDEAUX, LE HAVRE, AND LYONS RELATING TO THE CUSTOMS SERVICE
Privilege is being claimed for a few; I come to claim freedom for all.
LETTERS TO RICHARD COBDEN
It is the fallacy of reciprocity that paralyses the efforts of parliament.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
There are two potential causes of revolution in the United States: slavery and the high protective tariff.
COMPETITION.
It takes the bayonet to prevent them; hence, it is wrong to prevent them.
EXCHANGE.
Consequently, laws that limit exchange are always either harmful or unnecessary.
7. TRADE RESTRICTIONS.
“What do people say about work and economics?” they said. “What use are these painful means of increasing national wealth where one Decree suffices?”
12. – THE MAN WHO ASKED EMBARASSING QUESTIONS.
I am in favor of democracy if what you understand by this word is: ‘to each the ownership of his own work, freedom for all, equality for all, justice for all, and peace among all.’