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This cartoon caricatures Republican tariff policy as contradictory. Republican representatives in the House had decided not to challenge the Democratic tariff reform legislation, the Mills bill. They hoped to gain political capital on the issue by charging Democrats with being free traders. “America for Americans: No Free Trade” was a popular Republican campaign slogan. The 1888 Republican National Platform emphatically supported the existing system of protective tariffs, calling for reducing the federal surplus by eliminating internal taxes. The Senate Republicans, however, offered a substitute tariff reform bill, a tactic at odds with the House Republicans and seemingly with the platform. The Senate alternative proposed to lower tariff revenues even more than the Democratic Mills bill; however, neither became law. |
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