"Free trader" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... elected, and rewarded the misplaced confidence by making Robert J. Walker his Secretary of the Treasury, and, largely through that great Free Trader's exertions, secured a repeal by Congress of the Protective Tariff of 1842 and the enactment of the ruinous Free Trade Tariff of 1846. Had Clay carried New York, his election was secure. As it happened, Polk had a plurality in New York ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan
... a Free Trader. I stood for a tariff for revenue as the least oppressive and safest support of Government. The protective system in the United States, responsible for our unequal distribution of wealth, took at least its name from Spain, and ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... self-government, liberalism, free trade; noninterference &c 706; Monroe Doctrine [U.S.]. immunity, exemption; emancipation &c (liberation) 750; enfranchisement, affranchisement^. free land, freehold; allodium^; frankalmoigne [Fr.], mortmain [Fr.]. bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent. V. be free &c adj.; have scope &c n., have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... these facts, the free trader claims that to the extent that the tariff is an economic proposition, the burden of proof rests upon the protectionist. If this assertion is accepted, the tariff argument consists of the attempts of the protectionist to outweigh the above economic argument for free trade by putting forth economic ...
— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson
... 1821, the Blendenhall, free trader, bound from England for Bombay, partly laden with broad-cloths, was proceeding on her voyage with every prospect of a successful issue. While thus pursuing her way through the Atlantic, she was unfortunately driven from her course, by adverse ...
— Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean • Marmaduke Park |
