Note A3-1-6 — Chapter III

Fr. List assumed altogether too unconditionally such an effect from import duties to be the rule. The more developed the self-confidence of a nation is, the more vigorous the life of its industries, the more many-sided the commerce of its people; the less disposed are its industrial classes to give up their home and carry their market with them. But, for instance, Swiss labor and, still more, Swiss capital have been induced by the tariff-systems of the great neighboring countries to settle in Mühlhausen, Baden and Voralberg, or at least to establish branch houses in these places. Similarly, Neumark cloth makers were induced to emigrate to Russia, and Nürnberg industrial workmen to Austria (Roth, Geschichte des Nürnbergen Handels, II, 170) etc. Compare Burkhardt, c. Basel, I, 74; Böhmert, Arbeiterverhältnisse der Schweiz, I, 16 seq.; II, 17.