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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Tariffs: Taft Walks Away - The Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Taft fails in trying to lower tariffs, setting up his successor to do it. In frustration, he walks away from the White House. Meanwhile, his opponent, William Jennings Bryan, destroys the tariff in several populist arguments. A look at Payne-Aldrich, the 1909 tariff bill that was as least as important as Smoot Hawley.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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But how do we expect the men who profit by an extortionist tariff to join in the

0:37.0

the Tuesday for the reduction of that tariff. We believe that the tariff must be reformed by those who have suffered from it, not by those who have profited by it. The So, the the Next to Smoot Holly, which is remembered maybe because it's closer to modern times than any other big tariff bill I think Payne-Alderidge is the most

1:25.6

significant and it is the signature piece of infamous legislation of the presidency

1:31.8

of William Howard Taft and crucial to understanding that president.

1:35.4

We're to talk a bit about him, his presidency that he probably didn't really want to happen. The first thing to understand is that the Republican Party had always been in favor of high tariffs and is protection of industry.

1:55.4

This goes back to their roots as essentially the reformation of the Whig Party and the

2:01.8

Whig was a party was a high tariff party.

2:04.5

There were always some exceptions, particularly southern wigs,

2:08.2

that might not be in support of those tariffs, but generally speaking that was the way the parties played out in

2:14.3

support of manufacturing two things happen as you get to the turn of the

2:19.0

century and one is that there's an increasing awareness and realization of trusts that some

2:26.2

companies are just so large and these holding companies that own other companies in

2:30.6

complex webs and that tariffs by driving up prices hurt consumers and

2:37.5

make people who own manufacturers very rich.

2:42.6

In the episode on Reed Smoot, we talked a bit about Grover Cleveland's position on that.

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