This book, first published in 1913, records the ten years history of the Tariff Reform movement. Using the published declarations of both sides of the argument the Tariff Reformers on one side, Free Traders on the other the author provides the definitive account of Tariff reform up to the crisis of 1913.
1. The Protectionist Propaganda 1.1. The Origin of the Tariff Reform
League 1.2. The Imperial Tariff Committee 1.3. The Work of the League 1.4.
The Tariff Commission 1.5. Two Unofficial Programmes 1.6. The Dread of
Details 1.7. What Tariff Reform Means
2. Agriculture 2.1. The Storm Centre
of the Tariff Reform Movement 2.2. The Salvation of Erin 2.3. The Welbeck
Speech 2.4. The Tariff Commissions Barren Report 2.5. The Whole Policy of
Substitutes
3. Empire 3.1. The Imperial Sentiment 3.2. Sacrifice or Gain?
3.3. The Two Meanings of Preference 3.4. A Self-Sustaining Empire 3.5. The
Colonial Offer 3.6. Exploiting the Colonial Conference 3.7. The Attitude of
the Colonies 3.8. The Great Betrayal 3.9. The Modified Preference 3.10.
Emigration
4. British Trade 4.1. Dumping and Decadence 4.2. The Sectional
Appeal 4.3. Exhibitions 4.4. Tests of Various Kinds
5. Work and Wages 5.1.
The Starving Millions 5.2. The Promise of Plenty 5.3. Keeping Them Out and
Letting Them In 5.4. When the Foreigner Pays 5.5. Mortgages on the Revenue
5.6. The Cost of Living 5.7. Fear and Envy of Foreign Countries 5.8. The
Abominable Example of America 5.9. The Trips to Germany
W.E. Dowding
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