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Free trader   /fri trˈeɪdər/   Listen
Free trader

noun
1.
An advocate of unrestricted international trade.





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"Free trader" Quotes from Famous Books



... on his remarks had a mysterious quality. "I'm a free trader, but I'm not a Democrat. Tariff tinkering is not free trade, and I don't believe the Democrats would do any more than the Republicans, but that aint the question. The question is whether the ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland
... a Free Trader. I stood for a tariff for revenue as the least oppressive and safest support of Government. The protective system in the United States, responsible for our unequal distribution of wealth, took at least its name from Spain, and ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... these facts, the free trader claims that to the extent that the tariff is an economic proposition, the burden of proof rests upon the protectionist. If this assertion is accepted, the tariff argument consists of the attempts of the protectionist to outweigh the above economic argument for free trade by putting forth economic ...
— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson
... elected, and rewarded the misplaced confidence by making Robert J. Walker his Secretary of the Treasury, and, largely through that great Free Trader's exertions, secured a repeal by Congress of the Protective Tariff of 1842 and the enactment of the ruinous Free Trade Tariff of 1846. Had Clay carried New York, his election was secure. As it happened, Polk had a plurality in New York ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan
... of the worst and most notorious drinking-shops in Charleston, but, to reconcile his office with that strict requirement which never allowed any thing "contrary to law" in Charleston, he made his wife a "free trader." This special set of South Carolina may in effect be classed among its many singular laws. It has an exceedingly accommodating effect among bankrupt husbands, and acts as a masked battery for innumerable sins in a business ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams


Words linked to "Free trader" :   friend, admirer, booster, protagonist, supporter, champion


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