Great Debates in American History: Revenue: the tariff and taxationMarion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... question now to be determined , he conceived , was this : is an addition to the present amount of the revenue necessary ? It had appeared that an addition is necessary ; for his own part , he should prefer direct taxation to any excises ...
... question now to be determined , he conceived , was this : is an addition to the present amount of the revenue necessary ? It had appeared that an addition is necessary ; for his own part , he should prefer direct taxation to any excises ...
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... question , he says , between the friends of an " American policy " and those of a " foreign policy . " This , sir , is an assumption which I take the liberty most directly to deny . Mr. Speaker certainly intended nothing invidious or ...
... question , he says , between the friends of an " American policy " and those of a " foreign policy . " This , sir , is an assumption which I take the liberty most directly to deny . Mr. Speaker certainly intended nothing invidious or ...
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... questions that arise in the case are two : the first is , which is the best mode , under all the cir- cumstances , of obtaining the article ; the second is , how far this first question is proper to be decided by government , and how ...
... questions that arise in the case are two : the first is , which is the best mode , under all the cir- cumstances , of obtaining the article ; the second is , how far this first question is proper to be decided by government , and how ...
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... question before us , in regard to all the important clauses of the bill , is not whether we will lay duties , but whether we will augment duties . The demand is for something more than exists , and yet it is pressed as if noth- ing ...
... question before us , in regard to all the important clauses of the bill , is not whether we will lay duties , but whether we will augment duties . The demand is for something more than exists , and yet it is pressed as if noth- ing ...
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... question of taxing . It is not easy to make a monopoly of theorems and corollaries . The colonies draw from you , as with their life blood , these ideas and principles . Their love of liberty is fixed , and attached , on this specific ...
... question of taxing . It is not easy to make a monopoly of theorems and corollaries . The colonies draw from you , as with their life blood , these ideas and principles . Their love of liberty is fixed , and attached , on this specific ...
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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...