Independent of other things, that would rather set me against it than otherwise, because generally those things which best fit European society ill befit our society--the structure of each being so different.

Free Trade is no more British than any other kind of freedom: indeed, Great Britain has only followed quite older examples in adopting it, as for instance the republics of Venice and Holland, both of which countries owed their extraordinary prosperity to the fact of their having set the example of relaxing certain absurd though time-honored restrictions on commerce.

I espouse Free Trade because it is just, it is unselfish, and it is profitable.
For these reasons have I, a Worker, deeply interested in the welfare of the fellow-workers who are my countrymen, lent to Truth and Justice what little aid I could, by adapting Bastiat's keen and cogent Essay to the wants of readers on this side of the Atlantic.
EMILE WALTER, _the Worker_.
NEW YORK, 1866.
WHAT IS FREE TRADE?
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