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Course: AP??/College US History?>?Unit 6
Lesson 12: Controversies over the role of government in the Gilded AgeControversies over the role of government in the Gilded Age
Problem
Read the excerpt and answer the question below.
“No industry will ever be given up, except in order to take up a better one; and if, under free trade, any of our industries should perish, it would only be because the removal of restrictions enabled some other industry to offer so much better rewards, that labor and capital would seek the latter. It is plain that, if a man does not know of any better way to earn his living than the one which he is in, he must remain in that, or move to some other place.”
-Source: William Graham Sumner, “Protectionism,” 1885
Based on the excerpt, Sumner would be likely to support which of the following?