protective system

Labor reform, the socialistic tendency require a rigid adherence to the protective system.

Though theoretically a free trader, he was largely instrumental in creating the Italian protective system.

As recently as March 1910 the protective system of 1892 was strengthened, duties being raised all round.

And now we have come to the point where that saving element in the protective system is in danger of vanishing.

The exclusive and protective system utterly failed to accomplish its purpose in keeping out the Irish.