Yes, and isn't it amazing how the economy didn't really take off until after we moved away from the training wheels of tatiffs...
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Thoughtful comment, implying the answer depends on how one defines, "taking off".
The period 1870-1910, was the era our great Capitalists.
Naming but a few, among them;
* Rockefeller who developed the energy which accelerated our transition
from agrarian/rural to urban/industrial.
* Harriman (among dozens) who created a railroad, arguably the most
powerful unifying force in our young nation/state, merely a 100 years old.
* Carnegie who created the iron and steel that permitted structure to
flourish applying Euclid's Geometry.
Did the Capitalists who followed these trail blazers, surpass then???
Not in my judgement and as such the tariff argument has little bearing
on our economic passage.