Excerpt from The Tariff in Our Times IT takes no extended examination of any period in the last fifty years - the term covered by the phrase Our Times in the title of this book - to convince an unpreju diced student that as far as the tariff is concerned public Opinion has never been fairly embodied in the bills adopted. If the popular understanding of protection as expressed in our elections had been conscientiously followed, there would be to-day no duties on iron and steel products, on cheap cottons and cotton mixtures, and, certainly none on a great variety of raw materials probably including raw wool. That is, in these cases and in multitudes of similar ones, the purposes of protection' had been realized, or it had been proved that they never could be realized; and in either case the dogma required the duty to be withdrawn. This volume is an attempt to tell in narrative form the story of this defeat of the popular will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Tariff History of the United States For the second and third editions (published in 1892 and 1896) the history was brought to date by adding chapters on the tarifi acts of 1890 and 1894. It is now again enlarged, in this fourth edition, by a chapter on the act of 1897. In preparing these chapters, I have made free use of articles contributed from time to time to the Quarterly yournal of E conomics, the Political Science Quarterly, and the Economic yourml. Other parts of the volume, and more particularly those dealing with the period 1861 - 1883, have been revised and rewritten; and some changes and additions have been made in the tables in the Appendix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Tariff History of the United States: A Series of Essays For the present edition, the history has been brought to date by adding a chapter on The Tariff Act of familiarly known as the mckinley Act; and the volume has been further enlarged by a closing paper on Some Aspects of the Tariff Question, originally published in the Quarterly 7'0urual of Economics for April, 1889. That paper has been revised for its present republication, and other parts of the volume have also been revised and rewritten. More particularly, the chapter on The Tariff Act of 1883 has been entirely recast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Tariff Chats How strange it is that any American citizen should say, when asked his views on the tariff question, "I don't understand it." The tariff is a part of his taxes. It is the largest part of the tax he pays to the general government. If he is an average citizen, with an average family, this tax alone cost him $i 8 last year, and costs him a little more or less than that every year, in support of the government alone, aside from any revenue to any private interest. Yet he confesses that he knows nothing about this $18, of his own money, which he pays over to Uncle Sam. He doesn't know whether it is more or less than he ought to pay. He never asks whether the tax is so levied that he is paying more than $18 - may be $50 or $100 - while some other and richer tax-payer gets off at $5 or $10. Would he spend money so blindly in any other way? When you ask him about the money he pays to Uncle Sam, he says "he doesn't understand it." If you asked him about the money he bestows on his wife and children, would he look blank at you and confess, "I don't understand it"? What would you think of him if he did? How long would you expect to see him out of the sheriffs hands? Now, all his taxes are a part of his expenses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Riddle of the Tariff The purpose of this little book is to examine, in a non-technical manner, the various suggestions for 'tariff reform' which are at present in debate. It is addressed, primarily, not to professional economists, for whom the first two chapters will contain nothing, and the others, at best, extremely little that is new, but to the general reader interested in the problems with which it deals. In discussing these problems I have dwelt chiefly upon their economic aspect, not because I think the political question involved unimportant, but because I lack the practical knowledge needed for forming an adequate judgment upon them. When the course of the argument has demanded an expression of opinion upon a point in the main political, I have, for this reason, endeavoured to be as guarded and as brief as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from What's the Matter: Or Our Tariff and Its Taxes This book owes thanks to brave Congressmen like Messrs. Cox, Carlisle, Mills, Breckenridge and Russell, who have spoken honest words in the ears of their countrymen against the protection fallacy; to honest scholars in Political Economy who have disproved many times that fallacy; especially to Honorable D. A. Wells, for the learning and re search which have arrayed in his pages, by proven facts, modern civilization and progress against the nbw discredited barbarism of all protection tariffs, notably our own. It owes especial thanks to Mr. Charles F. Chamberlayne of the Boston bar, for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.