The passing of the tariff

Raymond L. (Raymond Landon) Bridgman

Sujets

• Tariff
• United States
• Free trade

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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THELIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
ANGELESLOSTHE PASSING
OF THE TARIFF
BY
RAYMOND L. BRIDGMAN
Author of "World Organization," etc.
BOSTON
SHERMAN, FRENCH &COMPANY
19091909Copyright
French 6- CompanySherman,
in U. S. A.Printed376
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NOTE
Acknowledgment is due for permission to use
this articles which appeared originally inin volume
MagazineMagazine form ; to the New England
"for Publicity for Favored Interests," pub-
lished in the number for December, 1905 ; to the
"Atlantic Monthly, for The New Tariff Era,"
published in the number for April, ; and to1907
"Moody's Magazine, for Free-Trade Protec-
published for February,tion," in the number
"1907, and for Taxation of Trade Destruc-
tive," published in the number for August, 1907.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Professor
Garrett Droppers of the Chair of Political
Economy in Williams College for the substance
of the last chapter of the book.
should read intoNo one this book a purpose
never had, condemnwhich it nor it for omitting
neverwhat it was intended to include. Its pur-
setpose is not to forth anew the old principles
which have been so admirably made clear by many
previous writers. When those principles are
mentioned it is because they are necessarily in-
cidental to the main purpose of the book, which
is to show that strong forces are acting to de-
stroy the tariff system completely, to encourage
those who are fighting for the removal of arti-
ficial obstructions to trade and prosperity, to in-
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those who are not familiar with the brightform
signs of the times, to arouse those who are in-
hopeless, to chaDenge those who op-different or
pose, and to make friends of all.
R. L. B.