What's the Matter

Excerpt from What's the Matter: Or Our Tariff and Its Taxes This book owes thanks to brave Congressmen like Messrs. Cox, Carlisle, Mills, Breckenridge and Russell, who have spoken honest words in the ears of their countrymen against the protection fallacy; to honest scholars in Political Economy who have disproved many times that fallacy; especially to Honorable D. A. Wells, for the learning and research which have arrayed in his pages, by proven facts, modern civilization and progress against the now discredited barbarism of all protection tariffs, notably our own. It owes especial thanks to Mr. Charles F. Chamberlayne of the Boston bar, for valued advice and coöperation. 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.