---
title: 'The Tariff a Live Issue'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Ellis Thompson'
date: 1920-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Politics'
- 'Economics, Employment, and Work'
- 'United States'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 13'
- 'Matthew 22'
- 'Proverbs 11'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/thompson-1920-the-tariff-a-live-issue
---

# The Tariff a Live Issue

1920 Protectionist piece defending Harding's tariff policy to shield American industry and labor from foreign competition, blaming Wilson's free-trade shifts and urging economic nationalism.

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