Talk:McKinley Tariff

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[edit] Hawaii

I removed this text:

  • It basically deleted the treaty of 1875 with Hawaii.

Because there is no sign of an 1875 treaty with Hawaii. It is not on this List of United States treaties and it is not mentioned in the histories of Hawaii. Please provide more information. -Will Beback 22:25, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

The claim concerns the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875. —Viriditas | Talk 01:23, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

The United States had a commercial reciprocity agreement with Hawaii in 1875, this is probably the treaty to which the aforementioned quote is referring. The tariff made it more difficult for the white planters on Hawaii to sell the sugar they were growing, though it didn't "delete the treaty." It did however lead to a greater push from said white planters for the annexation of Hawaii to the United States as a way to get around the tariff. I've taken this from my history textbook, The American Pageant, Twelfth Edition. Xydane 02:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)Xydane

The article states that the tariff "protected agriculture," but then it says "The tariff was detrimental to the American farmers." Don't those statements contradict each other? note: this doesn't belong under the Hawaii heading but I didn't want to screw anything up by trying to make a new heading. 24.186.43.182 03:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)Steven

[edit] This needes to be edited

This is completley biased.

The McKinley Tariff also had some beneficial points, because it was a protective tariff. I'd revise it.

[edit] BIASED

McKinley's behaviour was unscientific and doomed to failure.

That sounds like fair and balanced research....revise it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.231.152.82 (talk) 22:04, 4 February 2008 (UTC)