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William McKinley and the Tariff

William McKinley and the Tariff

 

by H. WAYNE MORGAN

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Two issues, the currency and the tariff, dominated national party politics

in the years after the election of 1876 had eased the major conflicts of

Reconstruction. Historians generally tend to dismiss the tariff issue, or

to argue that politicians used it to divert public attention from more im-

portant problems. It was far from irrelevant, however, since it involved

the two most basic problems of the time: the nature of an industrial society,

and the degree and manner in which government should enter the economy.

 

NOTES ARE ON PAGES 277-279