Tariffs often prompted numerous debates over the issue of whether businesses or business workers would be safeguarded when economic policies developed. Several Republican congressmen championed for a higher tariff because they trusted that securing businesses would guarantee a salubrious economy in which laborers could find jobs. Contrastingly, Democratic congressmen advocated for a significantly lower tariff because they put forth that if citizens were unable to afford American products, the economy would subsequently collapse. Resultantly, tariffs gave way to the issue concerning government regulation of big businesses. “To keep the revenues flowing in, the Billion-Dollar Congress also passed the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890, boosting rates
