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 unprejudiced 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, c...