The British Jugernath: Free trade! Fair trade!! Reciprocity!!! Retaliation!!!!

The pamphlet delivers a sustained satirical attack on free trade, likening it to a destructive idol and arguing that unfettered foreign competition impoverishes producers, increases unemployment, and drains colonial economies. Through chapters of facts, axioms, and polemical commentary it challenges prevailing economic orthodoxy, critiques political leadership, examines wages, pauperism, and crime, and discusses Ireland and imperial interests. The author proposes modest import duties—notably on foreign grain—as a remedy to redistribute wealth toward producers without significantly raising food costs, and warns that current policy fosters industrial decline and external dependence.