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Your poor and honest friends wear out several pairs of shoes, the tariff bill is passed, your mine or mill is abundantly protected, and the country is saved.
Each had the right to make its own tariff, and yet the division of the country, with four different tariff areas, was obviously to its general disadvantage.
A question greater than banks and tariffs, if moral questions are greater than material ones, now began again to be discussed in Congress, ending only in civil war.
The only reason for a tariff wall is their wish, or our wish, or the wish of each, to gain some advantage at the expense of the other party.
Under these impressions I invite your attention to the existing tariff, believing that some of its provisions require modification.
I recommend a revision of the existing tariff and its adjustment on a basis which may augment the revenue.
The Treasury and the Government are both bankrupt, and that foolish Tyler has vetoed the tariff bill; the House is in bad humor and nothing of the kind you propose could be done.
What's the use of states, if they are all to be cut up with canals, and railroads, and tariffs?
The question of the tariff, however, remains to-day as a "burning question," but it is no longer argued on grounds of constitutional law, but on grounds of political economy.
The South, in memorials, resolutions, and protests, declared a tariff for protection to be unconstitutional, partial, and oppressive.
There is the chance of unexpected political events, such as war, riot, and legislation on money, tariffs, credit, and business relations.
The distinction between revenue and protective tariffs, thus clear in principle, is not always easy to make in practice.
A tariff rate that in whole or in part excludes the foreign article to that extent affords "protection" but does not yield revenue.
If the natural resources of a land are adapted to an industry, it may be called into being earlier by a fostering protective tariff.
This repeal of internal revenue taxation had the same "protective" effect as raising the tariff rates by so much.
In the campaign of 1908 the Republicans admitted that the protective tariff needed to be revised, but they declared that it should be revised by its friends.
It was doubtless the general understanding that "revision" in this promise meant revision downward, tho this was left somewhat unclear in a campaign wherein the tariff played a somewhat minor part.
The tariff act of 1909 (the Payne-Aldrich act) was the attempt of the successful party to redeem its promise in this regard.
Unfortunately, his successors here soon destroyed the good effects of his measures by continual variations in the system, and in the commercial tariffs.
What is the difference between a tax laid by a tariff on imported goods and an internal revenue tax?
The last fiscal year, during which this amount was received, embraced five months under the operation of the tariff act of 1842 and seven months during which the tariff act of 1846 was in force.
This operated in harmony with the next branch of the new system, which was a high protective tariff.
Adams had set the will of the people at defiance on the tariff question, what had the supporters of General Jackson done?
What they're like, and what they do with their time and strength concerns us enough sight more than what the tariff is, let me tell you.'
Tariff laws, special legislation for particular industries, and all international trade treaties are also based on these compilations.
They objected to the protective tariff as a device which not only brought the South no benefit but interfered with its markets and raised the cost of certain of its staple supplies.
Tariff, internal improvements, and foreign policy were discussed in the campaign, but the real issue was the manner of selecting the President.
There are many articles entering into "home manufactures" which we do not produce ourselves the tariff upon which increases the cost of producing the manufactured article.
Clay a hearty and vigorous support, making a series of powerful speeches, chiefly on the tariff, and second in variety and ability only to those which he had delivered in the Harrison campaign.
Webster took more or less part in all the questions which afterwards arose in the House, especially on the tariff, but his great efforts were those devoted to the bank and the currency.
With respect to the second great object of the new tariff, viz., the "Diminishing of the prices of the articles of consumption and the cost of living."
Notice was not taken of the fact that the general tendency of the markets was upward, from influences wholly apart from the recent tariff legislation.
He may now be able to review the question in the light of his personal experience under the operation of a tariff for revenue only.
And what will be the result when the South, plus England, fights these tariff makers over here?
The necessity of the passage of a tariff law which shall provide ample revenue, need not be further urged.
Many of the votes which would otherwise have gone to the Republican candidate for President went in 1892 to Grover Cleveland, who ran on an anti-protective tariff issue.
The war debt, together with certain governmental enterprises and expenditures growing out of the war, was largely, if not wholly, responsible for the tariff of 1816.
There may have been a time when the tariff did not raise prices, but that time is past; the tariff is now taken advantage of by the great combinations in such a way as to give them control of prices.
I should like to ask some gentlemen if very much is collected in the way of duties at the ports under the particular tariff schedules under which they operate.
Then I saw proportion, and decided on a tariff, allowing an officer a 'damn' and a man a 'bloody.'
Goods going on into the interior pay the rest of the tariff at the inner margin of the Zone.
He did not touch on currency, but confined himself to advocating a protective tariff so high that it would shut out foreign goods.
The maintenance of such a system required money, and a high tariff of duties on imports was a necessary concomitant to Internal Improvements.
I do not believe that the changing of the present tariff to a revenue tariff will produce this result.
Steady progress has been made with the Tariff Bill, and it is expected that it will be passed within a very few days.
Few men of the South had given much attention to the effect a tariff for revenue had upon the commercial and manufacturing interests of the North.
Hence, the tax system can be represented by a straight line, with an intercept and a marginal tariff.
The tariff must be taken out of politics and treated as a business question instead of as a political question.
Through the tariff in politics the beneficiaries of tariff excesses are cared for, no matter which party is "revising."
That is why the invisible government and its agents want to keep the old method of tariff building.
For neither of the old parties believes in such a tariff; and, what is more serious, special privilege is too thoroughly woven into the fiber of both old parties to allow them to make such a tariff.
And then pointedly to Gantry: "Any more of that nonsense about putting a barrel of powder under us and blowing us all up if we don't build the freight tariffs over to suit his notion?"
I will here add my tariff, wherein you will be able to choose any rate of duty you please; and to decide whether it will not, on a fit occasion, be proper for legislative attention.
Besides, some of them have been on the tariff, the duties of voters, the Monroe Doctrine and politics: what does any woman know about such themes as those?
By this time several patrons of the hotel stood about enjoying the tilt between tariff and free trade.
For this reason, they had opposed the tariff of 1816 calculated to increase domestic production and cut down the carrying trade.
The tariff, they contended, raised the price of the goods they had to buy and was thus in fact a tribute laid on them for the benefit of the Northern mill owners.
Polk signed the tariff bill of 1846 striking an effective blow at the principle of protection for manufactures.
The extraordinary military expenditures, requiring heavy taxes on all sources, justified tariffs so high that a follower of Clay or Webster might well have gasped with astonishment.
The former looked with favor on protective tariffs, ship subsidies, a sound national banking system, and internal improvements.
Yet being mainly agricultural still, it was not without sympathy for the farmers who showed low tariff or free trade tendencies.
The Democrats on their part were not all confirmed free traders or even advocates of tariff for revenue only.
Most of the industries, they said, are in the East and the protective tariff which taxes consumers for the benefit of manufacturers is, in effect, a tribute laid upon the rest of the country.
They will not depend hereafter upon the tariff to cut off competition but have adopted more effective measures.
A tariff that is on even for one year and may be off the next is itself as disturbing a factor in industry as any exchange fluctuations can be.
On the one hand, they assured us that a tariff was the one means of securing good wages for the workers in general.
No one who looks the facts squarely in the face or knows anything that lies beneath the surface of action can fail to perceive the principles upon which recent tariff legislation has been based.
We have driven the tariff lobby from cover and obliged it to substitute solid argument for private influence.
In dealing with the tariff the method by which this may be done will be a matter of judgment, exercised item by item.
What shall we say if we make fresh enterprise necessary and also make it very difficult by leaving all else except the tariff just as we found it?
Years after the war, demands for a reduction of the tariff arose, and it was my lot to be drawn into the controversy.
Meanwhile, for us to remove the tariff would simply lead to our lumber going across the line to be manufactured.
The adoption of a policy of tariff reform, we have been told, had become absolutely necessary if the revenue of the country was to be obtained and if a natural expansion were to be imparted to it.
By this I meant the reduction of duties between Colonies which have already a discriminating tariff; and it seemed to me in such a case that there is a net reduction of duty to the good.
The next clash between the free States and the slave States was caused by the question of the tariff, or tax upon goods brought from foreign countries.
Not a few of the members of such know more about ward elections than tariff laws, and know as little about products and trade of foreign lands as of the geography of other nations.
Weimar was one of the three hundred capitals of this limp empire, with tariffs, stamps, coins, uniforms, customs, gossip, interests, and a sovereign of its own.
A tariff of compensation for the wounded was also adjusted according to the greater or less severity of the wounds they might receive.
Chase, took less time and raised less disturbance than it is the custom of our politics to accord to a change in our tariff or a modification of a commercial treaty.
He and I may not agree on free silver and the tariff, but we are entirely in harmony on the subject indicated by the title of his newspaper.
They contented themselves with combining all those forces for common defense, including them under a common tariff, and giving to them a common vote for a common assembly at the center.
As she betrayed a familiar knowledge of the tariff of an attractive confectioner, she was asked whether she and her sisters had been frequenting those little tables on their way from school.
Whoever wishes to enjoy a roof must leave us to make his tariff, just as buyers of cloth are now obliged to submit to you.
Observe, that if highway robbery presents some difficulties of execution, it has also certain advantages which are not found in the tariff robbery.
Then came one night when the Board of Trade Minister had to speak in the House of Commons as a defender of the Government policy against a motion put forth by the Opposition in favor of tariff reform.
Nor does the new movement propose to destroy the "trusts" by free trade even in the articles they produce, but merely to control prices by lower tariffs.
The Unionists, being themselves divided beyond repair on the question of the tariff, pinned their hope to a disruption of the Liberal forces on the issue of Home Rule.
Gladstone, 'Peel opened the tariff anew, and laid down, in a manner which drew great cheering from the opposition, the doctrine of purchasing in the cheapest market.
Gladstone himself set down the construction of these two tariffs among the principal achievements in the history of his legislative works.
It naturally led to a change in the financial system, and in 1824 a tariff Act was passed, materially enlarging the scope of the Act of 1816.
The friends of home industry have always referred with satisfaction to the effect of the tariff of 1842 as an explicit and undeniable proof of the value of protection.
The Whig victory of 1848 was not sufficiently decisive to warrant any attempt, even had there been desire, to change the tariff.
The one excuse given for urging the passage of the Act of 1857 was that under the tariff of 1846 the revenues had become excessive, and the income of the government must be reduced.
To hundreds of thousands of voters who took part in that memorable contest, the tariff was not even mentioned.
It stated for the first time that the party was opposed to internal improvements, a protective tariff, and the assumption of the debts of bankrupt States.
While this is largely true, it is also true that the tendency to foster the growth of traffic by making a low tariff has been a large factor in bringing rates down to a reasonable point.
If we turn back over the list of monopolies we have studied, to find those which the tariff has any effect in aiding to establish, we shall find none till we reach the first two chapters.
It is true that the tariff was reduced, so that the articles that were imported paid only about half as much in proportion after the change as before.
I have participated in framing many tariff bills, but have never succeeded in securing one that I entirely approved.
Whenever the tendency of a monopoly is to prevent mutual competition, and to advance prices for any articles embraced in our tariff laws, the duty on the article should be at once reduced or repealed.