Individual interest will soon learn to choose the lesser of two evils.

I might refer the reader to the preceding demonstration for an answer to this Sophism; but it is one which recurs so often, that it deserves a special discussion.
I have said more than once, that I am opposing only the theory of the protectionists, with the hope of discovering the source of their errors.

Were I disposed to enter into controversy with them, I would say: Why direct your tariffs principally against England, a country more overloaded with taxes than any in the world?
Have I not a right to look upon your argument as a mere pretext?
But I am not of the number of those who believe that prohibitionists are guided by interest, and not by conviction.

The doctrine of Protection is too popular not to be sincere.

If the majority could believe in freedom, we would be free.