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Excerpt from Protection's Brood The original advocates of a tariff for protection in this country were compelled by the ravages of a great civil war to find a method of increasing revenue for meeting the obligations of our government. Previous to the War between the North and the South our tariff laws were framed on the basis of a tariff for revenue only. After the war it was thought wise by the party in power to arrange a tariff schedule which would incidentally benefit certain manufacturing interests, and at the same time add materially to the income of the Federal Government. The men who suggested this innovation and those who were intrusted with the task of preparing the tariff schedules were at that time high in the confidence of the Republican Party. They felt particularly the responsibility which accompanied victory in the terrible scenes of the preceding years and they assumed the task of raising additional revenue with a deep sense of their duty to an impoverished country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.