Oto Von bismarck

German parliament 1879
The success of the united states in material development is the most illustrious of modern time. The American nation has no only born and suppressed the most gigantic and expensive war of all history but immediately after disbanded its army found employment for all its soldiers and marines , paid off its debt given labor and homes to all of the unemployed in Europe as fast as the could arrive in its territory and still by a system of taxation so indirect as to not be perceived much less felt. Because it is my deliberate judgment that the prosperity of America is mainly due to its system of protective laws I urge that Germany has reached that point where it is necessary to imitate the tariff system of the united states (Tarrifs )