...sonal grief to Mr. Gladstone that the United States should be unwilling to accept the beatitudes of free-trade, although British interests, as he claims, have prospered, and will prosper, in spite of America n adherence to protection. Why not, then, let us alone? If the whole world were one vast Utopia of communistic brethren, and swords were to be beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning-ho...