That the tariff conflict of agricultural and manufacturing interests in the United States was not much different a hundred years ago than it is today is exemplified in an acquisition of the Business Historical Society, “A view of the ruinous consequences of a dependence on foreign markets for the sale of the great staples of this nation, Flour, Cotton, and Tobacco.” The author is Matthew Carey, one of the most vociferous protectionists writing after the crash of 1819.