Fiscal Ballads

A working man has been bitten by a mad manufacturing man—and now even the word “dump” can send him clean off his head.

In Britain in 1905, while politicians argue over tariffs, free trade and the Empire, Harry Graham gives the debate to the people who feel it at the dinner table. Speaking as “Col. D. Streamer,” he lets artisans and ordinary citizens take up the cause in jaunty, colloquial ballads, where grand promises meet dearer bread, empty pockets and the stubborn logic of everyday life. Protection may sound splendid—until the working man starts counting what it will cost him. When the slogans are sung and the bills come due, whose side will Joe be on?

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