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Cobden Club,
A club instituted in London for the purpose of putting into practical application the principles of Richard Cobden.
Its first annual dinner was held July 21, 1866, with William E. Gladstone in the chair.
Its active membership includes many of the best-known statesmen of Great Britain, and among its honorary members are quite a number of well-known Americans, several of whom have been subjected to severe political criticism because of their connection with the club.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Free trade. (search)
Free trade.
William Ewart Gladstone, several times Prime Minister of England, wrote the following plea for Free Trade, to which a reply was made by James G. Blaine, which will be found in the article on protection:
The existing difference of practice between America and Britain with respect to free trade and protection of necessity gives rise to a kind of international controversy on their respective merits.
To interfere from across the water in such a controversy is an act which may wear the appearance of impertinence.
It is prima facie an intrusion by a citizen of one country into the domestic affairs of another, which as a rule must be better judged of by denizens than by foreigners.
Nay, it may even seem a rather violent intrusion; for the sincere advocate of one of the two systems cannot speak of what he deems to be the demerits of the other otherwise than in broad and trenchant terms.
In this case, however, it may be said that something of reciprocal reproach is i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lamar , Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus 1825 -1893 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McCarthy , Justin 1830 - (search)
McCarthy, Justin 1830-
Author; born in Cork, Ireland, Nov. 22, 1830; visited the United States in 1868, and lectured for nearly three years. He is the author of Prohibitory legislation in the United States; A history of our own times; The story of Mr. Gladstone's life, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morrill , Justin Smith 1810 - (search)