Word: trader
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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Kansas has a newspaper called the Free Trader devoted to that cause...
...University of Michigan advocates free trade enthusiastically; it is advocated by both faculty and students. At Williams the majority of the faculty are protectionists, but Prof. Perry, the teacher of political economy, is a very decided free trader, as is also his son, an instructor there. The senior class number twenty-seven in favor of his doctrine, and thirteen opposed to it. Two-thirds of the class of '80 were protectionists; '81 showed a majority of free traders, also '82 and '84. Harvard and Yale teach the free trade theory, while Princeton is just now in an unsettled state...
Says the Boston Post: "The 'Society for the Protection of American Industries' is devoting a good deal of attention to Harvard College, hoping to make that institution a fair offset for Yale, where Prof. Summer, the able free trader, has a strong hold...
...other hand, it may be considered fortunate that the reviewer gave wing to his enthusiasm, and launched out in this fiery tirade. No book would do more good, it seems to me, in establishing the soundness of the free trade theory, than the one in question; and to free trader and protectionist alike, I would heartily recommend it. The opening objection to Prof. Sumner's speech is that Prof. Sumner is a college professor. A college professor, it is claimed, is obliged to teach the same old propositions year after year until they root themselves in his mind too deeply...