Great Debates in American History: Revenue: the tariff and taxationMarion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... Americans were not going to work for the same wages that Europeans did . There were too many ways in which they could earn more . The country was new and men could have land of their own on easy terms . Commerce called them , for ...
... Americans were not going to work for the same wages that Europeans did . There were too many ways in which they could earn more . The country was new and men could have land of their own on easy terms . Commerce called them , for ...
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... American shipping , higher duties being im- posed on foreign than on American bottoms . This sys- tem of protection was defended and explained by the Secretary of the Treasury , Alexander Hamilton , in his " Report on Manufactures ...
... American shipping , higher duties being im- posed on foreign than on American bottoms . This sys- tem of protection was defended and explained by the Secretary of the Treasury , Alexander Hamilton , in his " Report on Manufactures ...
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... whom the tax of personal revenue would press with superior weight . Direct taxes Mr. Sedgwick regarded as of an improper nature . But , with regard to snuff and tobacco , nobody can ever feel the burden of 14 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
... whom the tax of personal revenue would press with superior weight . Direct taxes Mr. Sedgwick regarded as of an improper nature . But , with regard to snuff and tobacco , nobody can ever feel the burden of 14 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
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