"Free Trade". Cartoon showing two boys stealing apples from a basket on a rural labourer's head, whilst hiding behind a wall. The labourer is smoking a clay pipe & listening to a speech (or rant) by his friend. The postcard by William Henry Ellam (1858–1935) is one of a series in which he satirises the debate over free trade versus protectionism / tariff reform in the first decade of the 20th century

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