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       [1885] A
 A%;<<»AT   , , PREFACE
 i . URING the last fifteen years we have had two great

Q is vt questions to discuss: the restoration of the currency

 iiiv A and civil—service reform. Neither of these questions has yet
 reached a satisfactory solution, but both are on the way

- toward such a result. The next great effort to strip 0H the

 evils entailed on us by the Civil \Var will consist in the re-
 peal of those taxes which one man was enabled to levy on

g;Q; another, under cover of the taxes which the government

 e had to lay to carry on the war. I have taken my share in

S sl`ug the discussion of the first two questions, and I expect to 2£iYXp AY take my share in the discussion of the third. 3] j * ` °I· have written this book as a contribution to a popular

   g agitation. I have not troubled myself to keep or to throw
 r of? scientific or professional dignity. I have tried to make

51; ys.f» Amy point as directly and effectively as I could for the

 readers whom I address, viz., the intelligent voters of all
   degrees of general culture, who need to have it explained
 syis   _.r‘ t 0 them what protectionism is and how it works. I have
ig ilri I therefore pushed the controversy just as hard as I could,
 ris and have used plain language, just as I have always done
 Ybefore in what I have written on this subject. I must there- tnvv
 gilirr ffore forego the hope that I have given any more pleasure °
 Snow than formerly to the advocates of protectionism.