ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the letter which has been published in the Manchester Evening News 18 July 1872 regarding The Association of Revivers of British Industry, to the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P. John Bright speaks of free trade having benefitted the workman by giving him cheap food. Workmen all over the country are now striking and they allege that food and rent are so much dearer, that they require higher wages. The introduction of foreign manufactures duty free has sent thousands of the best workmen out of the country, thousands into the work-house, hundreds to death, and these results have thrown a heavy burthen upon the ratepayers of the country. The people who advocate one-sided free trade are not the labouring classes, but the middlemen who buy and sell foreign goods, and English capitalists who erect manufactories for countries, and die worth millions by turning their own countrymen out of employment for their own especial benefit.
