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.

Introduction © 2010 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and published under the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0

Text typeset and reprinted in 2010 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

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.

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.

PART I

CHAPTER II

The Early Protective Movement and the Tariff of 1828

IN THE PRESENT ESSAY we shall consider, not so much the economic effect of the tariff, as the character of the early protective movement and its effect on political events and on legislation.