The Protectionist, Volume 22Home Market Club, 1911 - Protectionism A monthly magazine of political science and industrial progress. |
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... WAGES AND LIVING IN AMERICA . Correspondence of the Yorkshire ( Eng . ) Observer . In order to put before the public a correct statement of the compara- tive cost of living , together with the wages paid in England and America , it is ...
... WAGES AND LIVING IN AMERICA . Correspondence of the Yorkshire ( Eng . ) Observer . In order to put before the public a correct statement of the compara- tive cost of living , together with the wages paid in England and America , it is ...
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... wages paid at Clayton and Bradford for 55 1/2 hours per week , and at Greystone for 56 hours . Clayton and Bradford . Greystone . 14 lb. 2 I 2 3 s . d . s . d . Best butter , per lb. Woolsorters ( day ( Danish ) I 5 * I 4 work ) per ...
... wages paid at Clayton and Bradford for 55 1/2 hours per week , and at Greystone for 56 hours . Clayton and Bradford . Greystone . 14 lb. 2 I 2 3 s . d . s . d . Best butter , per lb. Woolsorters ( day ( Danish ) I 5 * I 4 work ) per ...
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... wages , and irreg- ular work , and , as one Yorkshire housewife put it , " a scrattin ' on . " I know it is most difficult for any- one who has not visited the States to realize how well off the working classes are out there . A family ...
... wages , and irreg- ular work , and , as one Yorkshire housewife put it , " a scrattin ' on . " I know it is most difficult for any- one who has not visited the States to realize how well off the working classes are out there . A family ...
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... wages in Euro- pean countries have not kept pace with the increase in the United States , while rents and food have ad- vanced out of proportion to in- comes , especially as applied to the laboring classes . The New York Evening Post ...
... wages in Euro- pean countries have not kept pace with the increase in the United States , while rents and food have ad- vanced out of proportion to in- comes , especially as applied to the laboring classes . The New York Evening Post ...
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... Wages and Savings Much Increased . - Why Food is Temporarily Higher . - Evidence that the Tariff Has Lowered the Cost of Clothing . Established 1836 COTTON With which is combined BOSTON JOURNAL OF. Among the witnesses before the ...
... Wages and Savings Much Increased . - Why Food is Temporarily Higher . - Evidence that the Tariff Has Lowered the Cost of Clothing . Established 1836 COTTON With which is combined BOSTON JOURNAL OF. Among the witnesses before the ...
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Page 112 - I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed. The publications in Freneau's and Bache's papers are outrages on common decency; and they progress in that style, in proportion as their pieces are treated with contempt, and are passed by in silence, by those at whom they are aimed.
Page 243 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 245 - To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, for revenue necessary to pay the debts, provide for the common defence, and carry on the government of the Confederate States; but no bounties shall be granted from the treasury ; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry; and all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout...
Page 514 - I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the Treasury to defray the expenses of the Government economically administered. In adjusting the details of a revenue tariff, I have heretofore sanctioned such moderate discriminating duties as would produce the amount of revenue needed, and at the same time afford reasonable incidental protection to our home industry.
Page 514 - In adjusting the details of a revenue tariff, I have heretofore sanctioned such moderate discriminating duties as would produce the amount of revenue needed, and at the same time afford reasonable incidental protection to our home industry. I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue.
Page 479 - Is still true that you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Page 335 - But if particular nations grasp at undue shares, and, more especially, if they seize on the means of the United States, to convert them into aliment for their own strength, and withdraw them entirely from the support of those to whom they belong, defensive and protecting measures become necessary on the part of the nation whose marine resources are thus invaded...
Page 581 - President under limitations fixed in the law, the maximum to be available to meet discriminations by foreign countries against American goods entering their markets, and the minimum to represent the normal measure of protection at home; the aim and purpose of the Republican policy being not only to preserve, without excessive duties, that security against foreign competition to which American manufacturers, farmers and producers are entitled, but also to maintain the high standard of living of the...
Page 215 - In this conclusion, I am confirmed as well by the opinions of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, who have each repeatedly recommended the exercise of this right under the Constitution, as by the uniform practice of Congress, the continued acquiescence of the States, and the general understanding of the people.
Page 331 - ... be many decreases, and that in some few things increases would be found to be necessary ; but that on the whole I conceived that the change of conditions would make the revision necessarily downward — and that, I contend, under the showing which I have made, has been the result of the Payne bill. I did not. agree, nor did the Republican party agree, that we would reduce rates to such a point as to reduce prices by the introduction of foreign competition.