Great Debates in American History: Revenue: the tariff and taxationMarion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... higher in price , or , if he insists on a standard price , the article is poorer in quality . Take the very protected articles from which a manufacturing State such as Rhode Island draws its wealth . All of the 68,000 textile workers in ...
... higher in price , or , if he insists on a standard price , the article is poorer in quality . Take the very protected articles from which a manufacturing State such as Rhode Island draws its wealth . All of the 68,000 textile workers in ...
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... 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 " ( 1791 ) , in which he ...
... 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 " ( 1791 ) , in which he ...
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... higher duties should be laid than are both necessary and proper for the purposes of revenue . To attempt more necessarily increases the inducements to smuggling ; and if the encouragement of manufactures be the object , it is , in ...
... higher duties should be laid than are both necessary and proper for the purposes of revenue . To attempt more necessarily increases the inducements to smuggling ; and if the encouragement of manufactures be the object , it is , in ...
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... higher than anywhere else , cannot be repre- sented in gloom , melancholy , and distress but by the effort of extraordinary powers of tragedy . I will now proceed , sir , to state some objections which I feel , of a more general nature ...
... higher than anywhere else , cannot be repre- sented in gloom , melancholy , and distress but by the effort of extraordinary powers of tragedy . I will now proceed , sir , to state some objections which I feel , of a more general nature ...
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... higher with us than in any other civilized state , and this is the greatest of all proofs of general happiness . Labor in this country is independent and proud . It has not to ask the patronage of capital , but capital solicits the aid ...
... higher with us than in any other civilized state , and this is the greatest of all proofs of general happiness . Labor in this country is independent and proud . It has not to ask the patronage of capital , but capital solicits the aid ...
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