We've had Free Trade for the last fifty years and today most people are living in a condition of more or less abject poverty, and thousands are literally starving.

When we had Protection things were worse still.

Other countries have Protection and yet many of their people are glad to come here and work for starvation wages.

The only difference between Free Trade and Protection is that under certain circumstances one might be a little worse that the other, but as remedies for Poverty, neither of them are of any real use whatever, for the simple reason that they do not deal with the real causes of Poverty.' 'The greatest cause of poverty is hover-population,' remarked Harlow.
'Yes,' said old Joe Philpot.

'If a boss wants two men, twenty goes after the job: ther's too many people and not enough work.' 'Over-population!' cried Owen, 'when there's thousands of acres of uncultivated land in England without a house or human being to be seen.
Is over-population the cause of poverty in France?
Is over-population the cause of poverty in Ireland?
Within the last fifty years the population of Ireland has been reduced by more than half.