American Tariff Controversies in the Nineteenth Century, Volumen2

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1903
 

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Página 117 - That, while providing revenue for the support of the General Government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country...
Página 22 - And from and after the day last aforesaid, all duties upon imports shall be collected in ready money ; and all credits now allowed by law in the payment of duties shall be, and hereby are, abolished ; and such duties shall be laid for the purpose of raising such revenue as may be necessary to an economical administration of the government...
Página 25 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights...
Página 312 - ... competition with the products of American labor there should be levied duties equal to the difference between wages abroad and at home. We assert that the prices of manufactured articles of general consumption have been reduced under the operations of the Tariff act of 1890.
Página 196 - ... revenue, except so much as may be derived from a tax upon tobacco and liquors, should be raised by duties upon importations, the details of which should be so adjusted as to aid in securing remunerative wages to labor, and promote the industries, prosperity, and growth of the whole country.
Página 196 - We demand a system of Federal taxation which shall not unnecessarily interfere with the industry of the people, and which shall provide the means necessary to pay the expenses of the government, economically administered, the pensions, the interest on the public debt, and a moderate reduction annually of the principal thereof; and recognizing that there are in...
Página 135 - Products of fish and of all other creatures living in the water. Poultry, eggs. Hides, furs, skins or tails undressed. Stone or marble in its crude or unwrought state.
Página 40 - 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. I am opposed to a Tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue.
Página 237 - That this convention hereby indorses and recommends the early passage of the bill for the reduction of the revenue now pending in the House of Representatives.
Página 314 - Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few.

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