Great Debates in American History: Revenue: the tariff and taxationMarion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... equal to those which could be earned in our natural occupa- tions . Thus protection was not adopted for the sake of producing generous wages for labor . It was adopted because the rewards to labor in the new country were already ...
... equal to those which could be earned in our natural occupa- tions . Thus protection was not adopted for the sake of producing generous wages for labor . It was adopted because the rewards to labor in the new country were already ...
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... equal to those of the English . Fully sixty per cent . of the raw wool used in the 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 ...
... equal to those of the English . Fully sixty per cent . of the raw wool used in the 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 ...
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... equal and just mode of taxation , and as such one that would be agreeable to the people ; they would consider it as drinking down the national debt . He then obviated the objections to the bill , which , he conceived , arose principally ...
... equal and just mode of taxation , and as such one that would be agreeable to the people ; they would consider it as drinking down the national debt . He then obviated the objections to the bill , which , he conceived , arose principally ...
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... equal . It fell upon the poor , upon sailors , day - laborers , and other people of these classes , while the rich will often escape it . Much had been said about the taxing of luxury . The pleasures of life consisted in a series of ...
... equal . It fell upon the poor , upon sailors , day - laborers , and other people of these classes , while the rich will often escape it . Much had been said about the taxing of luxury . The pleasures of life consisted in a series of ...
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... equal . The most unequal imposition will , like a fluid , soon diffuse itself equally through all the proper and natural subjects of taxation . Mr. Dexter thought , also , that direct taxation ought not to be pursued by the general ...
... equal . The most unequal imposition will , like a fluid , soon diffuse itself equally through all the proper and natural subjects of taxation . Mr. Dexter thought , also , that direct taxation ought not to be pursued by the general ...
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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