Monitor Or British Freeholder in London, Middlesex

Trade and commerce threaten national welfare and staple industry

The article denounces foreign trade that harms the nation by raising labor costs and eroding domestic manufacture. It argues the staple economy lies in woolen and leather goods, iron, tin, lead, corn, sugar, rum, rice, tobacco, fish, and timber. It calls for dissolving trading companies that fail national interests, citing the Asiatic Company reforms as precedent.