Tariff Reform, the Paramount Issue: Speeches and Writings on the Questions Involved in the Presidential Contest of 1892C. L. Webster & Company, 1892 - 414 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
50 cents 50 per cent act of March ad valorem agricultural alpaca amount Applause average benefit bounty burden bushel carpets census cents a pound cents per pound centum Chairman clothing committee Congress consumers consumption cost crease demand Democratic party duction duties on wool exports fact facturers farmers favor fiscal fleece foreign wool free list free trade free wool gentleman home market home product House of Representatives Illinois imposed increased industry interest Iowa June 30 labor Laughter legislation manu manufacturers of woolen McKinley bill number of sheep Ohio paid Port Phillip President price of wool profit proposed protectionists protective tariff quinine rate of duty raw material reduction Republican Republican party revenue schedule scoured wool Senate shoddy SPRINGER statistics sugar sumers surplus Tariff Commission tariff laws tariff on wool tariff reform taxation tin plate tion Treasury United wages whole wool and woolen Wool Manufacturers wool-growers workingmen
Pasajes populares
Página 48 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Página 259 - To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation.
Página 386 - We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value...
Página 393 - ... nor the lessening of his wages; and the profits still remaining to the manufacturer, after a necessary readjustment, should furnish no excuse for the sacrifice of the interests of his employees either in their opportunity to work or in the diminution of their compensation. Nor can the worker in manufactures fail to understand that while a high tariff is claimed to be necessary to allow the payment of remunerative wages, it certainly results in a very large increase in the price...
Página 393 - It is also said that the increase in the price of domestic manufactures resulting from the present tariff is necessary in order that higher wages may be paid to our workingmen employed in manufactories, than are paid for what is called the pauper labor of Europe. All will acknowledge the force of an argument which involves the welfare and liberal compensation of our laboring people. Our labor is honorable in the eyes of every American citizen ; and as it lies at the foundation of our development...
Página 392 - It is not proposed to entirely relieve the country of this taxation. It must be extensively continued as the source of the Government's income ; and in a readjustment of our tariff the interests of American labor engaged in manufacture should be carefully considered, as well as the preservation of our manufacturers.
Página 397 - ... fiscal year; but I am so much impressed with the paramount importance of the subject to which this communication has thus far been devoted that I shall forego the addition of any other topic, and only urge upon your immediate consideration the
Página 81 - Early in its deliberations the commission became convinced that a substantial reduction of tariff duties is demanded, not by a mere indiscriminate popular clamor, but by the best conservative opinion of the country, including that which has in former times been most strenuous for the preservation of our national industrial defenses.
Página 386 - We denounce the Republican legislation known as the Sherman act of 1890 as a cowardly makeshift, fraught with possibilities of danger in the future which should make all of its supporters, as well as its author, anxious for its speedy repeal.
Página 396 - ... their wrongs. The difficulty attending a wise and fair revision of our tariff laws is not underestimated. It will require on the part of the Congress great labor and care, and especially a broad and national contemplation of the subject, and a patriotic disregard of such local and selfish claims as are unreasonable and reckless of the welfare of the entire country.