American Tariffs from Plymouth Rock to McKinley: A Complete and Impartial History of Our Tariff Systems, 1620-1891American Protective Tariff League, 1892 - 96 páginas |
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... pounds sterling . " Again on page 439 we find this : " The scarcity of money makes the produce of the country cheap , to the disappointment of the farmers , and the discouragement of husbandry . Thus , the two classes , merchants and ...
... pounds sterling . " Again on page 439 we find this : " The scarcity of money makes the produce of the country cheap , to the disappointment of the farmers , and the discouragement of husbandry . Thus , the two classes , merchants and ...
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... pounds to 308,000,000 ( 1884 ) ; those engaged in gainful occupations from 12,000,000 to 20,000,000 ( 1890 ) ; and deposits in savings banks * from $ 253,200,000 to $ 1,629,000,000 ( 1890 ) . The census of Great Britain ( 1991 ) shows ...
... pounds to 308,000,000 ( 1884 ) ; those engaged in gainful occupations from 12,000,000 to 20,000,000 ( 1890 ) ; and deposits in savings banks * from $ 253,200,000 to $ 1,629,000,000 ( 1890 ) . The census of Great Britain ( 1991 ) shows ...
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... pound , and 10 and 11 per cent ad valorem according to quality . Up to this time the duty on wool had been so low ... pounds of wool ; in 1884 , 308,000,000 pounds , an increase of over 500 per cent , and during the same period under the ...
... pound , and 10 and 11 per cent ad valorem according to quality . Up to this time the duty on wool had been so low ... pounds of wool ; in 1884 , 308,000,000 pounds , an increase of over 500 per cent , and during the same period under the ...
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... pounds , worth $ 23,790,000 . The raising of wool became unprofitable , as our people , without protection , could not compete successfully with the cheaply raised wools of South America and Australia . American wools were neglected and ...
... pounds , worth $ 23,790,000 . The raising of wool became unprofitable , as our people , without protection , could not compete successfully with the cheaply raised wools of South America and Australia . American wools were neglected and ...
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... pound , and the price of steel nails was 8 1-3 cents a pound . They were imported , as our steel nail - makers could not compete with English cheap labor with the duty at 1 cent a pound . But in 1883 the duty on steel nails was raised ...
... pound , and the price of steel nails was 8 1-3 cents a pound . They were imported , as our steel nail - makers could not compete with English cheap labor with the duty at 1 cent a pound . But in 1883 the duty on steel nails was raised ...
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agricultural Amended American labor annual message average Blaine Britain British cents a pound Cleveland's clothing coffee commerce Congress consumer cost Cotton Daniel Webster debt declared demand DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION Democratic Party Depositor distress doctrine election employment England exports facts farmers favor Fisher Ames followed foreign free list free of duty free raw materials Free Trade Tariff Henry Clay home industries home market imported increased iron James K less low tariff McKinley Act McKinley Bill McKinley Tariff nearly Opinion of Protection passed political Polk Polk's population President profits prosperity protection to home protectionist protective tariff rates Rebellion Reciprocity reduced Repealed Republican sell Senator South specie steel rails sugar Tariff Act tariff duty Tariff of 1846 taxes things Tin Plate tin-plate tion tons United United Kingdom wages wealth William McKinley wool York York Tribune
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Página 26 - In short, sir, we have been too long subject to the policy of British merchants. It is time that we should become a little more Americanized; and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England feed our own, or else in a short time by continuing our present policy we shall all be rendered paupers ourselves.
Página 61 - it is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that ain't so.
Página 18 - Whereas, it is necessary for the support of the 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 merchandise imported.
Página 20 - ... to be independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate them ourselves. We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist.
Página 76 - Europe as fast as they could arrive within the territory, and still by a system of taxation so indirect as not to 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 now reached that point...
Página 69 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so often as the President shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides,, raw and uncured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable...
Página 69 - ... imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable...
Página 30 - General good health has prevailed, abundance has crowned the toil of the husbandman, and labor in all its branches is receiving an ample reward, while education, science, and the arts are rapidly enlarging the means of social happiness. The progress of our country in her career of greatness, not only in the vast extension of our territorial limits and the rapid increase of our population, but in resources and wealth and in the happy condition of our people, is without an example in the history of...
Página 71 - Commerce is not a gambling among nations for a stake, to be won by some and lost by others. It has not the tendency necessarily to impoverish one of the parties to it, while it enriches the other; all parties gain, all parties make profits, all parties grow rich, by the operations of just and liberal commerce.
Página 23 - Americans will pay, which the exhausted state of the 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.