Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1911 — Defenders of Tariff of 1909. [ARTICLE]

Defenders of Tariff of 1909.

The tariff act of 1909 has been investigated by several competent and disinterested persons. The results of their investigations may be found in Miss Tarbell’s "Tariff in Our Own Times,” in Professor Taussig’s “Tariff History of the United States.” in Professor Coman’s "Industrial History of the United States," and in various magazine article of importance, including Prof. Willis’ articles in the Journal qj Political Economy, and an exceptionally thorough study in the Review of Reviews,./ All of these investigators agree that the revision was farcical. The only defenses of the act have come from such" sources as members of the ways and means committee and the wool trust, which prints an elaborate puff of schedule K in the current issue of the Outlook—as an advertisement „