But, it is answered, let _everything_ be protected.

Firstly, this is impossible; and, again, were it possible, how could such a system give relief?
_I_ will pay for you, _you_ will pay for me; but not the less still there remains the tax to be paid.
Thus you are the dupes of an illusion.

You determine to raise taxes for the support of an army, a navy, judges, roads, &c.

Afterwards you seek to disburden from its portion of the tax, first one article of industry, then another, then a third; always adding to the burden of the mass of society.

You thus only create interminable complications.
If you can prove that the increase of price resulting from protection, falls upon the foreign producer, I grant something specious in your argument.