American Economist, Volume 56American Protective Tariff League, 1915 - Protectionism |
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... possible to shut off discussion of such questions as the Tariff , Democratic ex- travagance and governmental inefficiency . The terrible nature of the commercial shock is admitted , but there will be few so rash as to contend that the ...
... possible to shut off discussion of such questions as the Tariff , Democratic ex- travagance and governmental inefficiency . The terrible nature of the commercial shock is admitted , but there will be few so rash as to contend that the ...
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... possible success . Its cause is just , and nothing but Free - Trade blindness and stubbornness can prevent success . If President Wilson is wise he will summon Congress to extra session and urge the repeal of the free sugar provision of ...
... possible success . Its cause is just , and nothing but Free - Trade blindness and stubbornness can prevent success . If President Wilson is wise he will summon Congress to extra session and urge the repeal of the free sugar provision of ...
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... possible for for- eign combines to invade the American market . It is the old story of legislation against American combines for the benefit of foreign combines . Feeling that the Protection of Ameri- can industries will be the ...
... possible for for- eign combines to invade the American market . It is the old story of legislation against American combines for the benefit of foreign combines . Feeling that the Protection of Ameri- can industries will be the ...
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... possible from foreign competition which employs cheap labor . The con- sumer must favor a Protective Tariff , be- cause when our farmers and manufac- turers employing labor at American wages have been crushed by foreign competition ...
... possible from foreign competition which employs cheap labor . The con- sumer must favor a Protective Tariff , be- cause when our farmers and manufac- turers employing labor at American wages have been crushed by foreign competition ...
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... possible . Those who talk glibly about " taking the Tariff question out of politics " by referring it to a " commission , " usually a " scientific , non - partisan " commission , to make it particularly impressive , are either ...
... possible . Those who talk glibly about " taking the Tariff question out of politics " by referring it to a " commission , " usually a " scientific , non - partisan " commission , to make it particularly impressive , are either ...
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abroad administration Ameri AMERICAN ECONOMIST American industry American labor American market AMERICAN PROTECTIVE TARIFF Aniline Boston Canada cent CHARLES HEBER CLARK cheap Chicago Commerce competition Congress cost of living cotton Cutlery Democratic party Democratic Tariff Dingley Tariff dollars domestic dumping duty dyes dyestuffs effect election Europe European exports fact factories facturer farmers favor foreign FRANCIS L free list free sugar Germany Government imports increase indus issue LABOR AND INDUSTRIES LEAGUE 339 Broadway legislation manufac MARRIOTT BROSIUS ment Merchant millions mills months peace Philadelphia politics President Wilson prosperity Protectionist PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEAGUE rates Redfield reduced Republican party revenue says Secretary selling Senator Speech Speech of Hon Street Tariff bill Tariff commission Tariff law TARIFF LEAGUE 339 Tariff question tection tective Tariff tion trade Treasury Underwood Free-Trade Tariff Underwood law Underwood Tariff United vote Washington wool York
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Page 108 - No Alien Land in all the world has any deep, strong charm for me but that one; no other land could so longingly and beseechingly haunt me sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun ; the pulsing of its...
Page 257 - ... every such one have charity to believe that every other one can say as much. Thus let bygones be bygones; let past differences as nothing be; and with steady eye on the real issue, let us reinaugurate the good old "central ideas
Page 254 - I am not one of these; experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort; and if those who quote me as of a different opinion, will keep pace with me in purchasing nothing foreign where an equivalent of domestic fabric can be obtained, without regard to difference of price...
Page 164 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 37 - ... in the usual and ordinary course in the country whence exported to Canada at the time of its exportation to Canada, there shall, in addition to the duties otherwise established, be levied, collected, and paid on such article, on its importation into Canada, a special duty (or dumping duty) equal to the difference between the said selling price of the article for export and the said fair market value thereof for home consumption; and such special duty (or dumping duty) shall be levied, collected,...
Page 212 - We denounce Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no Constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Government when honestly and economically administered.
Page 240 - That this additional duty shall not apply to goods, wares, and merchandise, which shall be imported after said day in ships or vessels not of the United States...
Page 257 - All of us who did not vote for Mr. Buchanan, taken together, are a majority of four hundred thousand. But in the late contest we were divided between Fremont and Fillmore. Can we not come together for the future...
Page 27 - Every Manufacturer encouraged in our Country, makes part of a Market for Provisions within ourselves, and saves so much Money to the Country as must otherwise be exported to pay for the Manufactures he supplies. Here in England...
Page 204 - Continent renders very unlikely; and because it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence, contrary to the natural course of things...