Great Debates in American History: Revenue: the tariff and taxationMarion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... United States , they rest on a formula which , as it always has been understood by the majority of the people of the country , is not especially intricate or confusing . Put yourself back a hundred years or so , when the country was ...
... United States , they rest on a formula which , as it always has been understood by the majority of the people of the country , is not especially intricate or confusing . Put yourself back a hundred years or so , when the country was ...
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... United States is brought from other lands , and a tax of 11 or 12 cents is collected on every pound of it . Our high grade woolens cost on an average twice what they do in Europe . The fact is , the protective dogma has not , and ...
... United States is brought from other lands , and a tax of 11 or 12 cents is collected on every pound of it . Our high grade woolens cost on an average twice what they do in Europe . The fact is , the protective dogma has not , and ...
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... United States . It is a New World , with a New World's hopes . But it is only the blind and deaf who do not realize that the same forces of allied greed and privilege which have made life so hard for so many in the Old World are at work ...
... United States . It is a New World , with a New World's hopes . But it is only the blind and deaf who do not realize that the same forces of allied greed and privilege which have made life so hard for so many in the Old World are at work ...
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... United States , and he was fully convinced that it was contrary to the opinion of a great majority of the House . MR . JACKSON doubted not other resources of revenue might be explored which would be more palatable ; he instanced a tax ...
... United States , and he was fully convinced that it was contrary to the opinion of a great majority of the House . MR . JACKSON doubted not other resources of revenue might be explored which would be more palatable ; he instanced a tax ...
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... United States . He could assure gentle- men that he did not contemplate the execution of the laws by military force . In framing the present bill , great attention had been paid to prevent its being attended with those qualities which ...
... United States . He could assure gentle- men that he did not contemplate the execution of the laws by military force . In framing the present bill , great attention had been paid to prevent its being attended with those qualities which ...
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abroad ad valorem agricultural amendment American believe benefit Benton McMillin bounty Canada capital cent Chairman commerce committee competition Congress Constitution consumer cost cotton demand Democratic side Dingley dollars England export factures farmer favor foreign free list free raw material free trade free-trade gentleman give Government House imported income tax increase industry interests iron Jerry Simpson labor legislation manu manufactures McKinley Means measure ment millions Mills Nelson Dingley opposed the bill party pig iron political present President principle profits proposed prosperity protective system protective tariff question raise rate of duty reciprocity reduce Republican side revenue Roger Q Senate Sereno E South Speaker steel sugar surplus tariff bill tariff of 1824 taxation things tion to-day treasury trust United valorem vote wages wealth wheat William William C. P. Breckinridge William McKinley wool woolen