What should be done is this: Unrestricted commerce, which would allow of the natural demands of a country being supplied, without restrictions of any kind, should be laid down as the true principle, and a gradual approach from present protective measures to freedom be inaugurated.
Woodhull advocates for unrestricted commerce as a means to meet the natural demands of a country.
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