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Dec. 12 -- It is unfortunate that British social activist Richard Cobden wasn't able to make it to Seattle earlier this month to join the protesters who said they were concerned about justice and treatment of the poor.

He might have enlightened them with a moral insight that has been conspicuously absent in recent public debate about the WTO. Cobden knew that most trade restrictions are a regressive tax on the poor, and he spent much of his life in a passionate crusade to eliminate them.

Cobden has been dead for ...

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