Talk:McKinley Tariff

Hawaii
I removed this text: Because there is no sign of an 1875 treaty with Hawaii. It is not on this List of United States treaties and it is not mentioned in the histories of Hawaii. Please provide more information. -Will Beback 22:25, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 *  It basically deleted the treaty of 1875 with Hawaii.
 * The claim concerns the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875. &mdash;Viriditas | Talk 01:23, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

The United States had a commercial reciprocity agreement with Hawaii in 1875, this is probably the treaty to which the aforementioned quote is referring. The tariff made it more difficult for the white planters on Hawaii to sell the sugar they were growing, though it didn't "delete the treaty." It did however lead to a greater push from said white planters for the annexation of Hawaii to the United States as a way to get around the tariff. I've taken this from my history textbook, The American Pageant, Twelfth Edition. Xydane 02:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)Xydane

The article states that the tariff "protected agriculture," but then it says "The tariff was detrimental to the American farmers." Don't those statements contradict each other? note: this doesn't belong under the Hawaii heading but I didn't want to screw anything up by trying to make a new heading. 24.186.43.182 03:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)Steven

This needes to be edited
This is completley biased.

The McKinley Tariff also had some beneficial points, because it was a protective tariff. I'd revise it.

Conventional economic wisdom is that any tariff benefits import-competing industries at the expense of exporting industries, and results in lower overall welfare. It seems that the McKinley Tariff is no exception. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.20.255.5 (talk) 03:08, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

BIASED
McKinley's behaviour was unscientific and doomed to failure.

That sounds like fair and balanced research....revise it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.231.152.82 (talk) 22:04, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

The crystal ball says

 * "The McKinley Tariff was replaced with the Wilson-Gorman Tariff in 1894, which promptly lowered tariff rates.[2]"

The reference points to


 * ^ Taussig, F.W. The Tariff History of the United States. 8th ed. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892. 291. Print

The cited text was published 2 years before the event cited? Wow. Oh, wait, also published in 1931. Also 1910. Such.... clarity. 24.28.17.231 (talk) 19:57, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

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