Come, confess, old chap; it's all a fad of yours.

I half suspected you of being a bit of a crank." And he winked at Erskine.
"What I have described to you is the inevitable outcome of our present Free Trade policy without Socialism.

The theory of Free Trade is only applicable to systems of exchange, not to systems of spoliation.

Our system is one of spoliation, and if we don't abandon it, we must either return to Protection or go to smash by the road I have just mapped.

Now, sooner than let the Protectionists triumph, the Cobden Club itself would blow the gaff and point out to the workers that Protection only means compelling the proprietors of England to employ slaves resident in England and therefore presumably--though by no means necessarily--Englishmen.