“The book is as fresh and as wholesome as a spring morning; its worst faults are those of inexperience.”
| + − | Spec. 96: 949. Je. 16, ’06. 820w. |
Pierce, Franklin. Tariff and the trusts. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–4381.
In this treatise the author “attempts to show ... how the Dingley tariff has been the direct cause of the rise and growth of hundreds of oppressive capitalistic combinations. In the course of his argument he institutes comparisons with foreign governments and deduces many illustrations from the tariff history of those countries, particularly England and Germany.”—R. of Rs.
“The author finds the tariff the chief cause for the oppression of corporate monopoly. It is here that the logic is weak; the analysis of the inconsistencies of the tariff is keen, and for the most part justified, but little evidence is given of the causal relation between the tariff and the great trusts which defy competition.” D. R. D.
| − + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 933. Jl. ’07. 380w. |
“Clear, forceful, controversial.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 126. My. ’07. |