The Arena. Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891

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Various. The Arena. Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891

A PARADISE OF GAMBLERS

PROTECTION OR FREE TRADE—WHICH?

BISMARCK IN THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT

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THE DOUBTERS AND THE DOGMATISTS

THE SIOUX FALLS DIVORCE COLONY AND SOME NOTED COLONISTS

THE WOMAN MOVEMENT

NEW TESTAMENT SYMBOLISMS

THE TRUE POLITICS FOR PROHIBITION AND LABOR

SUNDAY AT THE WORLD’S FAIR

TURNING TOWARDS NIRVANA

THE HEART OF THE WOODS

EDITORIAL NOTES

PHARISAISM IN PUBLIC LIFE

CANCER SPOTS IN METROPOLITAN LIFE

THE SALOON CURSE

HOT BEDS OF SOCIAL POLLUTION

THE POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY

WHAT THE CLERGY MIGHT ACCOMPLISH

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The advocates of free trade in this country at the present time are very unlike Emerson’s “fine young Oxford gentlemen” who said “there was nothing new, and nothing true, and no matter.” They not only believe their pet doctrine to be true, but they seem to assume that it is also new. They further treat it as if it were an exact science and a great moral question as well. Unwarranted assumptions merely confuse and this question of national economic policy is too important to be clouded with confusions. It is worth while, therefore, to look at these assumptions one by one and try, before attempting any discussion of the tariff, to clear the ground from cant and to see the question exactly as it is.

In the first place, the question of free trade or protection is in no sense a moral one. Free traders are prone to forget that their great prophet, Adam Smith, drew this distinction very plainly at the outset. He wrote two important works. One of them all the world has read. It is called “The Wealth of Nations,” deals with the selfish interests of mankind, and embodies the author’s political economy. The other is an equally elaborate work entitled “The Moral Sentiments.” It is the complement of “The Wealth of Nations,” which is devoted to the selfish side of human nature and the world at large has found no trouble in forgetting it. Adam Smith himself was under no confusion of mind as to his subject when he wrote about political economy. He knew that he was dealing with questions of a selfish character, of an enlightened selfishness, no doubt, but none the less questions of self-interest. He never for a moment thought of putting his political economy on a plane of pure morality.

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