Excerpt from The Tariff History of the United States For the second and third editions (published in 1892 and 1896) the history was brought to date by adding chapters on the tarifi acts of 1890 and 1894. It is now again enlarged, in this fourth edition, by a chapter on the act of 1897. In preparing these chapters, I have made free use of articles contributed from time to time to the Quarterly yournal of E conomics, the Political Science Quarterly, and the Economic yourml. Other parts of the volume, and more particularly those dealing with the period 1861 - 1883, have been revised and rewritten; and some changes and additions have been made in the tables in the Appendix. 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.