“_SMUGGLER_.—_A wretch who_, _in defiance of_ _the laws_, _imports or exports goods without_ _payment of the customs_.”—DR. JOHNSON _OPINIONS have ever been divided on the question of the morality_, _or the immorality_, _of smuggling_. _This is not_, _in itself_, _remarkable_, _since that subject on which all men think alike has not yet been discovered_; _but whatever the views held upon the question of the rights and wrongs of the_ “_free-traders_’” _craft_, _they have long since died down into abstract academic discussion_. _Smuggling is_, _indeed_, _not dead_, _but it is not the potent factor it once was_, _and to what extent Governments are justified in taxing or restricting in any way …
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