Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1, Issue 3 (26 March 1887)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

In: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 1887, Napier

Part of: Typo

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Boston has raised its voice against protection, and demands a reduction in the American tariff. The present Secretary of the Treasury, Mr Manning, one of the ablest financiers in the United States, writes thus in his last annual report: « Our tariff laws are a legacy of war. If its exigencies excuse their origin, their defects are unnecessary after twenty years of peace. They have been retained without sifting and discrimination, although enacted without legislative debate, criticism, or examination. »