The country was in a hell of a state, poverty, hunger and misery in a hundred forms had already invaded thousands of homes and stood upon the thresholds of thousands more.

How came these things to be?
It was the bloody foreigner! Therefore, down with the foreigners and all their works.

Out with them.

Drive them b--s into the bloody sea! The country would be ruined if not protected in some way.

This Friscal, Fistical, Fissical or whatever the hell policy it was called, WAS Protection, therefore no one but a bloody fool could hesitate to support it.