Sir J. B. Byles's “Sophisms of Free Trade” is an answer to Bastiat's “Sophisms of Protection,” the latter having been translated into English by Horace White.
Erastus B. Bigelow's “The Tariff Question.” This is one of the ablest discussions, from the protectionist point of view, based on statistical tables and comparisons of the policy of England and the United States.
Stebbins's “Protectionists' Manual” is a brief and handy statement.
Ellis H. Roberts's “Government Revenue” is the form into which he has thrown his lectures at Cornell University (1884) on protection, and is the latest statement emanating from that side of the discussion. He goes at length into the history of taxes in various countries; holds that wages are higher here than in England because of protection; that our manufactures are more flourishing than our agriculture, etc.
Frederick List's “National Economy” is the German statement of protection, much on Carey's own grounds.
“The Congressional Globe” contains numerous speeches of members of Congress on the tariff; and the Iron and Steel Association of Philadelphia send out pamphlets explaining the protectionist position.
The free-trade arguments may be found also in W. M. Grosvenor's “Does Protection Protect?” He studies the results of the various tariffs of the United States, and gives many very valuable tables and collections of statistics bearing upon this question.
W. G. Sumner's “History of Protection in the United States” is a very vigorous account of the evils of the various tariffs and the protective system.
D. A. Wells's “Reports” as Special Commissioner of the Revenue, and his numerous pamphlets (see Putnams' publisher's catalogue), are [pg 628] full of facts, and give the results of special study of the subject as affecting the United States.
A. L. Perry's “Political Economy” gives a radical free-trade view.