"For 50 years they had had free trade in Great Britain and they had a greater mass of sordid, miserable destitution in this country than could be found in any other country on the face of the globe. If tariff reform would solve the question there would be no poverty in America, protection was never intended to benefit the working classes."
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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomDemocratic socialistsPoliticians from ScotlandChristian socialistsLabor leaders
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Speech in Walworth (7 March 1909), quoted in The Times (8 March 1909), p. 12
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Keir Hardie
James Keir Hardie (15 August 1856 β 26 September 1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. He was a founder of the Labour Party, and served as its first parliamentary leader from 1906 to 1908.
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