Great Debates in American History: Revenue: the tariff and taxationMarion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... [ Laughter . ] It is not , however , the tax gatherer the people hate so much as the taxes . And , if you have no provision in the bill by which the payment of these taxes can be coerced , they will never be paid . The Representatives ...
... [ Laughter . ] It is not , however , the tax gatherer the people hate so much as the taxes . And , if you have no provision in the bill by which the payment of these taxes can be coerced , they will never be paid . The Representatives ...
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... [ Laughter . ] The gentleman , while admitting that protective duties do not always or even generally increase the price of the manufactured article , thinks " that somehow or other it don't work that way mit pig iron . " Now , I think ...
... [ Laughter . ] The gentleman , while admitting that protective duties do not always or even generally increase the price of the manufactured article , thinks " that somehow or other it don't work that way mit pig iron . " Now , I think ...
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... [ Laughter . ] I do not complain , Mr. Chairman , that these articles are made free . They ought all to be free except perhaps the shooks . Were competition in that important article possible it might stimulate some stalwart Virginian to ...
... [ Laughter . ] I do not complain , Mr. Chairman , that these articles are made free . They ought all to be free except perhaps the shooks . Were competition in that important article possible it might stimulate some stalwart Virginian to ...
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... [ Laughter . ] Sir , for the last twenty years I have been so in the habit of laughing , at least in my sleeve , when hearing gentlemen repro- duce that admirable novelty that I could not help doing so when the chairman of my committee ...
... [ Laughter . ] Sir , for the last twenty years I have been so in the habit of laughing , at least in my sleeve , when hearing gentlemen repro- duce that admirable novelty that I could not help doing so when the chairman of my committee ...
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... [ Laughter . ] When the consumer demands a reduction of duty he is informed that it would not reduce the price to take it off , but when a duty is proposed to be put upon the raw material it is immediately protested against as imposing an ...
... [ Laughter . ] When the consumer demands a reduction of duty he is informed that it would not reduce the price to take it off , but when a duty is proposed to be put upon the raw material it is immediately protested against as imposing an ...
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Page 222 - The question thus imperatively presented for solution should be approached in a spirit higher than partisanship and considered in the light of that regard for patriotic duty which should characterize the action of those intrusted with the weal of a confiding people. But the obligation to declared party policy and principle is not wanting to urge prompt and effective action. Both of the great political parties now represented in the Government have by repeated and authoritative declarations condemned...
Page 432 - I am for it, because I hope to see the day when the American flag will float over every square foot of the British North American possessions clear to the north pole!
Page 6 - 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 222 - Our scheme of taxation, by means of which this needless surplus is taken from the people and put into the public Treasury...
Page 222 - It is not proposed to entirely relieve the country of this taxation. It must be extensively continued as the source of the Government's income ; and in a readjustment of our tariff the interests of American labor engaged in manufacture should be carefully considered, as well as the preservation of our manufacturers.
Page 63 - ... that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe.
Page 27 - Without commerce, industry would have no stimulus ; without manufactures, it would be without the means of production ; and without agriculture neither of the others can subsist.
Page 44 - A most important question for every nation, as well as for every individual, to propose to itself, is, how it can best apply that quantity of labor which it is able to perform. Labor is the great producer of wealth ; it moves all other causes. If it call machinery to its aid, it is still employed, not only in using the machinery, but in making it. Now, with respect to the quantity of labor, as we all know, different nations are differently circumstanced. Some need, more than...
Page 30 - It will greatly increase our mutual dependence and intercourse, and will, as a necessary consequence, excite an increased attention to internal improvement — a subject every way so intimately connected with the ultimate attainment of national strength and the perfection of our political institutions.
Page 43 - Yet some things are impossible to be done, and some burdens may be impossible to be borne ; and as it was the last ounce that broke the back of the camel, so the last tax, although it were even a small one, may be decisive as to the power of our marine to sustain the conflict in which it is now engaged with all the commercial nations on the globe. Again, Mr. Chairman, the failures and...