Excerpt from Is Protection a Benefit?: A Plea for the Negative
No one who has been observant enough to note the trend of public sentiment in this country can fail to see that the tariff question is coming to the front. For more than twenty years our national politics have looked toward the past, and not toward the future. It would be difficult to name a prominent question upon which the parties, as parties, have made a direct issue. The pretended issues grew out of or survived the Rebellion; the real contest arose from the earnest desire of the parties out of power to get in, and the equally strong desire of the party in power to stay in, - "the one striving to rout the outs, and the others to oust the ins."
But the country may now indulge in the belief that the issues of war-time are no longer dominant, but have passed into history. We have fallen upon better years, when in our campaigns arguments upon economic, political, and moral questions are likely to take the place of the old-time appeals to local prejudices and sectional animosities.
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