Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general references: Speech of Mr. Springer in H. R., July 19 1888; Congressional Record XIX., 6198-9; Whitman's testimony before tariff commission...
...Experience shows that American wool production is dependent upon a protective tariff-Conv. Rep, pp. 13-23, Wool Bulletin...
...Economic effects of free intercourse would be disastrous. (a) By increasing competition in staple products-Curtis, 66-68; Stebbin's Manual. (b) By extending the benefits of our protective system to poor states without increasing our own advantages-J. S. Mill; Taussig's Tariff History...
...That the tariff does not create is demonstrated by the falling off in the woolen industry since the war. In only one line has it grown, and that is in the worsted trade. That branch has been built up, not by the tariff, but by skill and industry. Indirectly the tariff has assisted, because it does not tax the wool used in this industry so heavily as it does other grades of wool...
...Garrison next touched upon the wage question, and the encouragement which the tariff offers to smuggling and fraudulent invoices, and concluded by declaring the impending doom of the protective tariff, and the triumph of the principle of tariff reform...