Excerpt from Political Ecomy and Fiscal Policy Prussia, from the days of the Chancellor Hardenberg, had been a Free Trade country. This is as true of the Conservatives as of the Liberals. Herr von Bismarck, too, had been a Free Trader until 1877, and Free Trade had always been one of the main points in the programme of the Liberal party in Prussia. It seemed, in a certain sense, to be a matter of course that in the German Empire, which had been founded by Bismarck with the help of the Liberals, the ecomic policy which harmonised with the views of both should be carried fully into effect. This was done, when, in 1877, the last remains of. The duty on iron were removed, the duty on corn having been previously abolished in 1865. 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 techlogy 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.