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History

After 1879 the Liberal party went down hill in its electoral support, and liberalism became a dying philosophy in the empire.

The question of protectionism arose partly out of the peculiar financial arrangements for the support of the empire.

Bismarck was fundamentally uninterested hi economic problems and had no hesitation in saying so.

During the first decade and more of his tenure of office he had been mainly interested in diplomacy and had relegated domestic questions to trusted subordinates.

In the middle seventies, however, he began to realize the precarious nature of imperial finances.