For free trade
Subtitle: a collection of speeches delivered at Manchester or in the House of Commons during the fiscal controversy preceding the late general election
By: by Winston S. Churchill
Series: Bloomsbury collections
Publisher: Arthur L. Humphreys
Published: 1906
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9781472581273
Subjects: Tariff; Free trade
Description: "The 1906 General Election was the first which Churchill fought as a Liberal. He campaigned on a single-issue platform: Free Trade. The Liberal Party were committed to Free Trade, unlike the Conservatives, who had split on the issue. In the constituency of Manchester North-West, the manufacturing heartland which Churchill intended to represent, protectionism was unpopular, giving Churchill and the Liberals an opportunity to target a Conservative stronghold. In Churchill's defense of Free Trade we see the influence of the nineteenth-century Anti-Corn Law movement and radical, Liberal thinkers such as Cobden and Bright, with whom the Churchill family had been allies. He argued that Free Trade encourages international relations, interdependence and peace. The validity of his argument may be questioned, but Churchill's mastery of rhetoric is undisputed."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Also issued in printing.

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