Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... the tariff or protection question. There is no question I have so little patience with as "Free Trade." How any intelligent man can honestly advocate it for this country is incomprehensible to me; or as nearly so as anything I have ever tackled. Mr. Greeley wrote a book in 1869 especially to illustrate and defend the doctrine of protection of home industries. I prefer on this subject to give my readers the benefit of what he says, rather than much that I might say myself. For, however thin and trifling or mercenary you may consider my opinions or expressions, you do not consider those of Mr. Lincoln or Mr. Greeley of that character. They have an undisputed record for intelligence and honesty, and had given much more thought to these subjects than any of us have given. Greeley's Prophesy. In the preface to this book Mr. Greeley says: We are about to enter, as a people, upon a very general discussion of economic questions, and I rejoice that such is the case. I welcome the conflict, for I feel entirely assured as to the ultimate result. Bull Runs and Chicamaugas may intervene, but I look beyond them to our Atlanta and our Appomattox. And the great discussion, anticipated with prophetic vision by the great journalist, is just now begun. The battle is not fairly on, but the skirmishers are firing. A republican. Mr. Greeley was a Republican, and his position on protection was taken in the interest of labor, and labor only: of all classes of laborers, to bring them greater rewards for their labor and to raise them higher, both materially and morally. He held it invincibly established that a protective tariff would create manufacturing industries, and that diversity of labor between agriculture and manufactures would make a mutual home market...
