ABRAHAM, WILLIAM, minority report of Brit-
ish Labor Commission, 1894, 383.
ADAMS, JOHN, on wisdom of protection, 574.
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, in campaign of 1828,
687.

AD VALOREM DUTIES, disadvantage of, 410;
encouragement to under- valuations and
fraud, 687.

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, manufacture in
Germany, 431; increased use of, in United
States, 659; manufacture of, in United States
1860 and 1890, 704.

AGRICULTURE, a chief branch of production, I,
2; in palmy days of Rome, 15; protected
under Queen Elizabeth, 65; prosperous con-
dition of in England in the eighteenth cen-
tury, 91; growth in England, 103; inferior-
ity to manufacturing as an industry, 211;
evil effect of repealing the Corn Laws pre-
dicted by the peers, 278; decline in England
under free trade, 278-88; flourishing under
protection, 279; statistics of products grown
in England and imported, 280-82; decrease
in the number of persons engaged in agri-
culture under free trade, 282; its ruin de-
stroys the foundation of other industries,
288; destruction of the yeomanry class by
free trade, 289; neglect a serious economic
blunder, 289; capacity of England sufficient
for the home demand, 290; made unprofit-
able in Ireland, 373: statistics of products
imported by Great Britain, 386; injured in
Germany by free trade, 424; fostered by the
protective policy, 426; statistics in Ger-
many, 427,429; the chief concern of the Phy-
siocrats, 499; improvement under protection
in France, 510; statistics in France, 525; sta-
tistics in Italy, 540; condition in the United
States in 1835 to 1843, and in 1847, 597; in
1840, 1850 and 1860, 610; benefited by the
McKinley act, 652; growth from 1850 to 1890,
657-71; increase of labor-saving implements
in the United States, 659; need of protection,
662; nearness of market important,664; West-
ern farm mortgages, 665-70; decline in prices
of products, 711; increase in purchasing pow-
er, 712; imports and exports of United States
under Gorman-Wilson tariff, 748; little mar-
ket for United States to gain in foreign coun-
tries, 758; imports of England in 1894, 760.
ALISON, ARCHIBALD, on the progress of Eng-
land under protection, 124; on England's
prosperity after Napoleonic wars, 131; statis-
tics of debt and revenue of England, 150.
ALTHUSEN, CHARLES, on reciprocity, 240; on
decline of English chemical industry, 275.
AMERICAN ECONOMIST, on wages under the
Gorman-Wilson tariff, 749.

AMERICAN SYSTEM, rise and rapid growth,
577; vigorously advocated, 583.

AMES, FISHER, on protection in the Constitu-
tion of the United States, 569.
ANDREW, SAMUEL, evidence on foreign com-
petition with English cotton industry, 237;
on necessity of reducing wages, 237; on agree-
ments of British Cotton Manufacturers, 238.
ANGLO-SAXON invasion of England, institu-
tions and form of government, 36.
ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE, on the opportune
time for free trade in England, 157; rise and
activity, 159; petitions parliament, 161; ac-
tivity in the election of 1841, 162; opposes
Peel's revision of the Corn Laws, 163; decep-
tive arguments to farmers, 171, 172, 173; meets
obstacles in good harvests, 173; triumphs by
the aid of bad harvests, 174; suspected of im-
proper use of money, 175; magnitude of its
funds, 176; real purpose of its agitation, 199.
ANTWERP, Commercial centre of the West, 26.
APPRENTICES, statute of, 60.
ARABS, ancient commerce, 9.

ARTIFICIAL INDUSTRIES, free trade fallacy of,
exposed, 802-04.

ARTIFICIAL SELECTION, law of, basis of the
doctrine of protection, 790, 791; progress of
mankind due to, 792.

ASIA, statistics of trade with, 551.

ATKINSON, EDWARD, on wages in the United
States in 1892, 652; on farm mortgages in the
United States, 668-70; on the rise of wages
in the United States from 1860 to 1890, 717;
on labor cost in cotton goods, 769.
AUSTIN, MICHEL, minority report of British
Labor Commission, 1894, 383.

AUSTRALASIA, statistics of trade with, 552.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, growth of foreign trade
1854-1890, 312; economic policy, 533; tariff
of 1882, 533; manufactures and agricultural
products, 534; statistics of exports, 535;
statistics of wages in 1890, 719.
BABYLONIANS, ancient commerce, 9.
BACON, LORD, introduced protection in Eng-
land, 330.

BAGEHOT, WALTER, on “economic man," 795.
BALANCE OF TRADE, in favor of England 1697
to 1793, 94; 1793 to 1859, 119; adverse for
England 1864 to 1893, 317; adverse for the
United States after the War of 1812, 577;
favorable under the tariff of 1824, 586; adverse
before 1842, 594; adverse from 1857 to 1861,
607; adverse from 1848 to 1857, 613; in favor
of the United States in 1892, 648; United
States with foreign countries 1892, 1894, and
1895, 745; from 1791 to 1895, 828; importance
of having favorable, 818.

BANK CLEARINGS in the United States in 1892
and 1895, 751.

BARLOW, FREDERICK PRATT, evidence on
German competition with England in paper-
making, 276-78.