REFERENCES 407 



17. Cite statistics on rural conditions in New England. 



18. Show the need of "cheap food" and "stability" of society, from the stand- 



point of the manufacturer. 



19. To what extent, if any, is the tariff responsible for the present condition 



of New England agriculture? 



20. Cite Webster's 1824 speech on this point. 



21. Cite Albert Gallatin's arguments on the "home market" theory; on 



high wages. 



22. Cite the arguments of Secretary Walker on the factory labor problem; 



relation of protection to high wages; profits; free trade; home markets. 



23. Cite and explain Hamilton's two errors. 



24. Cite modern theories of protection to labor and agriculture. Criticize. 



25. What is the relation of the farmer to the protective tariff? 



QUESTIONS SUGGESTED BY THE TEXT 



1. Resolved, that our protective tariff policy has added to the prosperity 



of American agriculture. 



2. Debate. Resolved, that the Single Tax, as proposed by Henry George, 



should be put into operation for all national, state and local purposes. 



3. Assuming that free trade is desirable as among all the so-called white 



races, should or should not the principle be extended to include all races 

 of the earth? 



4. Show the fallacy implied in the words "cheap labor " in the following 



sentences: We cannot compete with the cheap labor of Europe. We 

 cannot compete with the cheap labor of the Orient. 



5. Show by citing reliable data that in American factories paying the highest 



wages, the labor cost of the product is less than in similar plants paying 

 lower wages. 



REFERENCES 



I. GEORGE, HENRY: "Progress and Poverty." 

 2. : "The Land Question." 



3. FILLEBROWN, C. B.: "The A B C of Taxation." Boston, 1912. 

 4. : "A Single Tax Hand Book." Boston, 1913. 



5. SHEARMAN, THOMAS G.: "National Taxation." 



6. "The American Economic League, Publications of." Cincinnati. (A 

 league to promote the Single Tax idea.) 



7. HYDER, JOSEPH: "The Case for Land Nationalization; with a special 

 introduction by Alfred Russell Wallace." London, 1913. 



8. WHITTAKER, SIR THOMAS P.: "The Ownership, Tenure and Taxation 

 of Land. Some Facts, Fallacies and Proposals Relating Thereto." London. 

 1914. 



9. MILLER, JOSEPH DANA: "The Single Tax Five- Year Book." New 

 York, 1919. 



10. TAUSSIG, F. W. (Editor) : "State Papers and Speeches on the Tariff." 

 Published by Harvard University, 1892. 



II. : "Tariff History of the United States." 6 edition, New York 



and London, 1914. 



12. : "How not to Revise the Tariff." American Economic 



Review, I, pp. 20-37, March, 1911. 



13. COMMONS, John R.: "Tariff and Protection to American Labor." 

 Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science, September, 

 1908, pp. 51-56. 



14. BIGELOW, POULTNEY: "In Darkest Connecticut." The Independent 

 October 19, 1911. 



15. TARBELL, IDA M.: "The Tariff in Our Times." New York, 1911. 



16. "Reciprocity and Commercial Treaties." United States Tariff Com- 

 mission, Washington, 1919. 



