APPENDIX IIL
(1.)—FREE TRADE.*
A SpeecH DELIVERED BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIA- TION OF BRUSSELS, aT ITs PUBLIC MEETING, JANUARY 9, 1848. By Kart Marx.
GENTLEMEN,—The Repeal of the Corn Laws in England is the greatest triumph of Free Trade in the nineteenth century. In every country where manufac- turers speak of Free Trade, they have in mind chiefly Free Trade in corn or raw material generally. To bur- den foreign corn with protective duties is infamous, it is to speculate on the hunger of the people.
- The speech on free exchange, by Marx, is reproduced
textually from the original pamphlet published in Brussels in 1848, and which has become so rare that we know of no other copy than that of Engels, from which the German, English, Italian, and Russian translations, which appeared later, have been made. [Note by the editor of the French edition, 1896.]
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