Note A3-3-2 — Chapter III

Among the many frequently wonderful speeches by which persons engaged in industry are wont to support their motion for protective duties, etc., the following are particularly characteristic. The long struggle of English manufactures against the East Indian Company, since the later portion of the seventeenth century. Compare Pollexfen, England and East India inconsistent in their Manufactures (1697), against which Davenant, at the solicitation of the company, wrote his Essay on the E. I. Trade (1697). Prohibition of East Indian commodities, 11 and 12 Will. III., ch. 10. The struggle did not stop until the middle of the eighteenth century, when India was outflanked by English machines. When Pitt, in 1785, labored for the abolition of the tariff-barriers against Ireland, English manufacturers, and among others Robert Peel, declared that they would be forced in consequence to transfer a part of their manufactories to Ireland! (McCulloch, Literature of Political Economy, p. 55.) Say tells of a proposition made by the hat-makers of Marseilles to prohibit foreign straw hats (1. c).