Note 83 — SECTION XIV. HIGH RATES AND THEIR EFFECT ON TRADE.

Compare Sir Lowthian Bell’s statement. “The results of my enquiry on the continent of Europe, and in the United States, justify the assertion that foreign iron manufacturers as a rule possess no advantage over ourselves in these respects ... That railway accommodation for the transport of fuel, ore, and limestone is afforded on terms somewhat cheaper in Great Britain than those charged on the Continent for like distances.” (Appendix to part 1 of Second Report of the Royal Commission on Depression of Trade, pages 345-361.)