Excerpt from Some Leading: Principles of Political Economy Newly Expounded Though the main purpose of the book is, as I have already intimated, to aid the improvement of economic theory, I have nevertheless embraced every opportunity that offered of bringing theoretic doctrines into comparison with the facts presented by modern industry and commerce. I have in this way been led to examine the power and pretensions of Trades Unions, the efficacy of Strikes, and other practical questions involved in the relations of labor and capital; and, in the portion of the book devoted to International Trade, I have, with the same view, considered in some detail the present position of the external trade of the United States, as well as the system of Protection which, in defiance alike of theory and experience, that country has so strangely adopted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.