...t be won unless we frankly adopt and steadily maintain a system of free-trade. We must, however, frankly and steadily maintain that the terms are too exorbitant. In his pathetic exhortation to Americans on the selfishness and moral aspects of the question, urging protectionists to be good as well as great, Mr. Gladstone forgets he and his countrymen are not entirely without sin, and may not, therefo...