 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 632 pages
...wise and fair revision of our tariff laws is not underestimated. It will require on the part of the Congress great labor and care, and especially a broad...and reckless of the welfare of the entire country. . . . The taxation of luxuries presents no features of hardship ; but the necessaries of life used... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 634 pages
...wise and fair revision of our tariff laws is not underestimated. It will require on the part of the Congress great labor and care, and especially a broad...and reckless of the welfare of the entire country. . . . The taxation of luxuries presents no features of hardship ; but the necessaries of life used... | |
 | Judith Goldstein - Business & Economics - 1993 - 290 pages
...Congress, Cleveland explained why he had targeted tariff reform: "Under our present laws, more than 4,000 articles are subject to duty. Many of these do not...are hardly worth attention as subjects of revenue. . . . The radical reduction of the duties imposed upon raw material used in manufactures, or its free... | |
 | Victoria A. Farrar-Myers - Political Science - 2007 - 304 pages
..."alone can apply a remedy" to the problems the nation faced and that doing so required Congress to exert "great labor and care, and especially a broad and national contemplation of the subject."51 Putting these institutional roles in perspective, Cleveland wrote to Congress: "I have... | |
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... when an abused and irritated people, heedless of those who have resisted timely and reasonable relief, may insist upon a radical and sweeping rectification of their wrongs. The difficulty attending a wise and fair revision of our tariff laws is not... 
