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Excerpt from Labour and Protection: A Series of Studies
Of protective tariffs, says Henry George, x is to raise the price Of commodities. But men who work for wages are. Not sellers of commodities; they are sellers of labour. They sell labour in order that they may buy commodities. How can an increase in the price of commodities benefit them? The advocates of Protection, indeed, are seldom drawn from the friends of labour. In modern Germany their origin is much the same as it is in England; they belong to that section Of the landed and commercial classes which is most hostile to labour move ments. In the United States they centre in the great Trusts, and include the directors Of some of the worst-rewarded toil in America. New York, the home of Pro tection, is also the seat of startling misery among great masses of its workers, and of conditions of housing that have become intolerable in London.
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