A policy of that sort could not fail of being highly popular, when the Company submitted itself as an instrument for the improvement of British manufactures, instead of being their most dangerous rival, as heretofore they had been always represented.
Burke points out the popularity of the Company's policy that positioned it as a supporter of British manufacturing rather than a competitor.
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