The Tariff History of the United States - Mises Institute

The Tariff History

of the

United States

The Tariff History

of the

United States

By F.W. Taussig

Henry Lee Professor of Economics in Harvard University

FIFTH EDITION

Revised, with Additional Material, Including a Consideration of the Aldrich-Payne Act of 1909

G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press

G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London and The Knickerbocker Press ? 1910, [1892]

Cover prepared by Chad Parish.

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ISBN: 978-1-61016-132-9

Note to the First Edition

Of the papers printed in this volume none is now presented to the public for the first time. The essay on "Protection to Young Industries as Applied in the United States" was first published in Cambridge in 1882, and was republished in a revised edition in New York in 1883. The paper on "The tariff of 1828" appeared in the Political Science Quarterly for March, 1888. That on "The History of the Tariff between 1830 and 1860" was printed in the Quarterly Journal of Economics for April, 1888. "The History of the Present Tariff " was published in New York in 1885. All, however, have been revised for the present volume, and considerable additions have been made. I have avoided repetitions, so far as this was possible, and have attempted to connect the narrative of the separate parts. Although not originally written with the design of presenting a complete history of our tariff legislation, these papers cover in some sort the entire period from 1789 to 1887.

F.W.T. Cambridge, Mass., July, 1888.

Note to the Fifth Edition

In previous editions, the narrative was brought to date by chapters on the acts of 1890, 1894, and 1897. It is now again brought to date by the addition of a chapter on the act of 1909.

One further change is made in the present edition. The chapter on "Some Aspects of the Tariff Question," which came at the end of the volume in the third and fourth editions, is omitted. That chapter considered certain industries--the manufacture of silks, fine woollens, glassware, earthenware, the production of hemp, flax, and beet sugar--as they had developed to the year 1890. Since then, great changes have taken place, and the narrative as it stood was incomplete, and in some respects misleading. I hope before long to take these subjects up again, and to bring to date this part of our tariff history also. The pressure of other tasks makes it impossible to do so at the moment, and hence the chapter is omitted in the present edition.

Cambridge, Mass., November, 1909

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