Devine, James wrote: >"Tariffs were, as Schumpeter put it, 'the household remedy' of the >Republican Party." -- Charles P. Kindleberger, THE WORLD IN >DEPRESSION, 1929-39, University of California Press (1973), p. 133. > >the footnote is to a book by E.E. Schattschneider, POLITICS, >PRESSURES, AND TARIFFS, Prentice-Hall, 1935, pp. 283-4. > >The point is that in the earlier long period of U.S. rule by the >GOPsters (1861-1932, with short periods of DP rule, under Cleveland >and Wilson), they regularly raised tariffs. For example, any >pro-competitive impact that the anti-trust laws had was undermined >by higher import taxes.
And organized labor was anti-tariff at the time, right? Doug
