. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. WM. D. KELLEY TUSTIN S. THOMAS B. REED. ROGER Q. 108a PROTECTION AND FREE TRADE. In i860 salt was free of duty. The price at
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. WM. D. KELLEY TUSTIN S. THOMAS B. REED. ROGER Q. 108a PROTECTION AND FREE TRADE. In i860 salt was free of duty. The price at Chicago was ;^ barrel. The tariff of 1861 placed a duty of 8 cents per 100pounds on it. It sold in Chicago in 1880 at 75 cents a barrel,and in remote Western marts in 1887 at 60 cents a barrel. In i860 there were three mills in the country running onworsted cloths at poor wages and with an insignificant tariff act of 1861 imposed a heavy duty on worsted 1883 there were 5,000 looms, employing 75,000 workmen,consuming 50,000,000 pounds of wool, producing 15,000,000yards annually, with a capital of ^20,000,000. Worsted clothswere then 40 per cent, cheaper than in i860, and the total im-port was only ;^500,000. After the lower rate under the act of1883 the imports of worsteds increased to ;^5,000,000 in 1887,and one-third of our looms were idle. In i860 pottery-making employed two to three thousandpeople, and carried a duty of 24 per cent. The tarif
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