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PREFACE.

CHAPTER I. Our Expanding Trade.

THE ART OF EXAGGERATION.

THE WHOLE TRUTH.

OUR TOTAL TRADE FOR TEN YEARS.

OUR IMPORTS OF GOLD AND SILVER.

EXCESS OF IMPORTS OVER EXPORTS.

THE WORLD’S TRIBUTE.

OUR ENTREPÔT TRADE.

CHAPTER II. Germany: One of Our Best Customers.

A VERY SATISFACTORY TRADE.

OUR PRINCIPAL CUSTOMERS.

THE ALARMIST’S ARTS.

A SELF-DESTRUCTIVE POLICY.

CHAPTER III. Picturesque Exaggerations.

THE ALKALI TRADE.

CHEMICAL MANURES.

SOME SUPPOSITIONS ABOUT SALT.

CHEMICAL DYE STUFFS.

FANCY SOAPS AND FANCY ASSERTIONS.

CHAPTER IV. More Misrepresentations.

“ICHABOD! OUR TRADE HAS GONE.”

COMPARISONS SAID TO BE “ODIOUS.”

STATISTICAL LEGERDEMAIN.

SHIPS BUILT FOR FOREIGNERS.

WAR-SHIPS FOR FOREIGNERS.

MACHINERY AND STEAM ENGINES.

TEXTILES.

COTTON YARN AND THE PRICE THEREOF.

THE DAYS OF BIG FORTUNES.

LINEN, SILK, AND WOOLLENS.

THE EXPANSION OF OUR WOOLLEN INDUSTRY.

THE NATURE OF GERMAN COMPETITION.

THE “PERCENTAGE TRICK.”

CHAPTER V. Our Growing Prosperity.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR RAILWAYS.

LENGTHENING TRAM LINES.

POST OFFICE EXPANSION.

EVER-GROWING INCOMES.

REDUCTION OF NATIONAL DEBT.

SOME STAPLE COMMODITIES.

PERSONAL AND DOMESTIC EXPENDITURE.

CHAPTER VI. Let Well Alone.

THE CASE FOR PROTECTION.

THE ALLEGED EXPANSION OF GERMAN TRADE.

WOULD PROTECTION HELP US?

ON WHAT SHALL WE LAY A TAX?

A NEW ROAD TO FORTUNE.

INTER-IMPERIAL TRADE.

THE COST TO THE COLONIES.

WHAT CAN WE OFFER?

DIVERGENT AMBITIONS.

A DREAM OR A NIGHTMARE?

DOES TRADE UNITE?

A NEXUS STRONGER THAN CASH.

CHAPTER VII. Conclusion.

NOT ONLY A PROTECTIONIST PAMPHLET.

TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND THE METRIC SYSTEM.

NO SIGNS OF DECAY.

THE CRY OF “WOLF!”

APPENDIX.

THE “ADVOCATUS DIABOLUS.”

NOT A PROTECTIONIST PAMPHLET.

THE CHARGE OF DATE-COOKING.

“ARTFUL AND INGENIOUS.”

THE ABUSE OF STATISTICS.

EXCESS OF IMPORTS OVER EXPORTS.

THE ALKALI TRADE.

THE CHEMICAL MANURE TRADE.

SOAP IMPORTS FROM GERMANY.

IMPORTS OF IRON.

A “PETTY ACCUSATION.”

FANCIFUL FOREBODINGS?

A WARNING.