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Commentators on Swift have traditionally, and quite properly, called attention to his preference for the landed interest of Great Britain, an attitude, it is usually pointed out, that stems from his Toryism. This view of Swift was, of course, current in his own day. Witness the words of one of his contemporaries, the anonymous author of and Trade Can Never Agree (ca. 1713), who attacked The Examiner-i. e., Swift-as a Daemon of Torism who never fail'd to maul the trading interest or eulogize the landed interest.