… is from page 244 of the of the 1991 Robert Schalkenbach Foundation edition of Henry George‘s eloquent 1886 volume, Protection or Free Trade:
Protection, as we have seen, operates to reduce the power of a community to obtain wealth – to lessen the result which a given amount of exertion can secure. It “makes more work,” in the sense in which Pharaoh made more work for the Hebrew brickmakers when he refused them straw; in the sense in which the spilling of grease over her floor makes more work for the housewife, or the rain that wets his hay makes more work for the farmer.
