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As to duties on articles imported, they were to pay according to a tariff that was made part of the treaty, and in no case were to be subjected to higher duties than those paid, under similar circumstances, by the people of other nations.
It is also important that an unfortunate provision in the present tariff, which imposes a much higher duty upon the raw material that enters into our manufactures than upon the manufactured article, should be remedied.
A percentage may be added for numbers greater than those provided for in the tariff, while on a really difficult tour, the Guide will probably refuse to take more than two or three runners unless a second Guide or porter be engaged.
Besides, it may be proper to observe that the incidental protection thus afforded by a revenue tariff would at the present moment to some extent increase the confidence of the manufacturing interests and give a fresh impulse to our reviving business.
The tariff alluded to above will of course vary according to the extent of the useful pressure of competition.
To equalize advantages, a tariff was established, as to the value of labor and materials.
What sort of foolish stuff are you trying to inject into this tariff debate?...
On the whole, in view of the sharp differences of opinion, the action taken on the tariff was remarkably expeditious.
Once these mountains were covered with vast flocks of sheep, but the foolish reduction of the tariff on wool by the Wilson bill, destroyed all profits, and the flocks disappeared into the hungry mouths of the people.
There is, of course, no question that every tariff change affects certain enterprises and classes of workmen.
It is vain in reply to show that again and again equally bad periods of unemployment have occurred when a high tariff was in force, and that often the most highly protected industries are most affected.
Thus, foreigners may conceivably be compelled to pay a part of the tariff duties to enjoy the favored market.
This rule is very attractive in its suggestion at the same time of the idea of a moderation of the tariff and of an exact practical (not to say scientific) standard for the determination of the proper rate in every case.
The net result of various conflicts has been a tariff which is protectionist, but not highly protectionist.
One set of reformers proposed to reform the tariff by doing away with as much of it as possible.
The Northerners saw in it the germs of a tariff act which would benefit their manufacturers, and they agreed that the slave trade should not be interfered with before 1808 and that no export tax should be authorized.
It has caused many American citizens to seek for tariff favors from the Government.
Don't raise the tariff on this milk proportionately, for I'm sure the agent will not allow the claim.
Nobody, however, at that time, had any comprehensive plan or general system, so that the efforts for protection were incoherent, and resulted only in certain special protective features in the tariff bill, and not in a broad and well-rounded measure.
He was a defender of the administration of Adams and Clay, supported all their important measures, and voted for, nay, advocated, the Tariff Bill of 1828, which went far beyond that of 1824 in its protective provisions.
Southern politicians came to the conclusion that the cause at once of Northern prosperity and Southern poverty was the protective tariff and the appropriations for internal improvements, but chiefly the tariff.
The very low tariff paid by the manufacturers could have no perceptible effect upon the price of articles, and the extension would provide a competence for a worthy family who had claims upon the gratitude of the nation, if not upon its justice.
The world never saw him as the advocate or assailant of a tariff, or other such affair.
No annexations, perhaps; but tariffs, which would be much better.
Clay advocated it in a brilliant speech, resting his defense on the ground that this was the only way to preserve the tariff, and that it was founded on the great constitutional doctrine of compromise.
An argument on the tariff, for example, sometimes runs off into appeals to save this grand country from ruin or from the trusts or from some other fate which the speaker pictures as hanging over an innocent and plain people.
It must be admitted, however, that matters have changed for the better in this respect elsewhere; and, at all events, the printed tariff that may now be consulted in every modern hotel enables you to know what you are spending.
Its walls may echo one day to the praises of our tariff system and on another to fierce denunciations of it.
The cuisine and service of the hotel is excellent, and well worth the charges; but the tariff is arranged so that it costs more to stay part of a day than a whole one, and more to take two meals than to take three.
The American and the several European tariffs of charge are appended.
If on government business the sender pays the regular tariff and is reimbursed from the treasury.
A man might consequently be a Blue Beard if he liked, it was only necessary to consult the tariff in the first instance, and see to what extent his means would enable him to indulge his fancy for horrors.
It has effectually killed the American market for English goods, and put the tariff up to prohibition en permanence.
What I am trying to point out to you now is that this "protective" tariff, so-called, has become a means of fostering the growth of particular groups of industry at the expense of the economic vitality of the rest of the country.
If the removal or the imposition of a particular tariff will benefit the community as a whole, are you prepared to vote for such a change, though owing to it the business in which you are personally interested may make less profit?
The protection afforded by the American tariff, has greatly increased the production of sugar in the United States.
"These tariff laws," he would repeat, "are unconstitutional, palpably, deliberately, dangerously."
For it is not at all true that tariff discussion or decision has been isolated; on the contrary, it has influenced, and been influenced by, every other phase of the national development of the country.
Morrill introduced a protective tariff bill in the House of Representatives, and it passed that body; and, in June, the Republican National Convention adopted, as one of its resolutions, a declaration in favor of a protective system.
In addition to the subject of the Tariff, considered in the previous section, public attention has been directed chiefly, during the last quarter of a century, to the two great subjects, Finance and Civil Service Reform.
Finance, the tariff, and similar public questions of a technical nature, he was content to leave to others; but those which directly concerned the making of a continental republic he mastered with almost jealous eagerness.
"There's more money in the tariff than all that Seward can rake together."
It seems, from the accounts given, that Germany buys very little from us besides the raw material which she cannot get elsewhere; and so, if she does make a tariff against our goods, it may not make much difference to us.
The constitution fixed a scale of revenue, and levied a tariff on all imported articles.
The reparations bill worked like a foreign tariff that took away funds that could have been invested otherwise.
Companies were founded and were ruined by English tariffs and English competition.
Still it cannot be denied that McKinley's connection with the Tariff Bill of 1890 was what gave him the necessary national prominence to make him the most available man to be placed at the head of his party ticket for the Presidency that year.
For the tariff in politics is the excuse for those sham political battles which give the spoilers their opportunity.
The tariff in politics is one of the invisible government's methods of wringing tribute from the people.
Every one is somewhat shocked to find that the tariff bill, which was to put such a lot of money in our treasury, has fallen far short of the expected results, and, indeed, has not produced enough revenue to pay the expenses of the Government.
Is it to be found in burdensome taxation or ill-adjusted tariff regulations?
He requested that the highest price and talent on our tariff should be employed to detain you gentlemen.
It took on the form of a tariff controversy and nullification in 1832.
The party of sound finance and protective tariffs set out upon its lease of power with untroubled assurance.
To this I demurred, but was told that any reduction was impossible; it was the tariff.
Tariff wars engender the belief that wars carried on by shot and shell may not improbably follow.
What might be the position of Germany if the American protective tariff system were expanded over the earth?
The whole Union was highly agitated on the subject of the tariff.
The Morrill tariff is as odious to the West as it is to the South.
The Morrill tariff is very injurious to the West, and is odious there.
Adrian was thundering on about the tariff, and the general was wrangling with him.
This is greatly hampered by the present lack of a fixed customs tariff.
The five per cent manufacturer's tax, which is paid upon the price of the finished instrument, has also to be paid upon various parts, such as the wire; and upon the imported articles there is a high tariff.
Although mutton according to the tariff is cheaper than beef, I rarely see any at the restaurants.
Dawes's amendment was adopted, the bill passed, the New England industries saved, and the tariff reformers beaten.
The Democratic Republicans, now known simply as Democrats, denied the constitutional authority of the national government to construct roads and canals, or to impose a tariff except for revenue, or to charter a national bank.
The everlasting reiterations about the tariff take up altogether too much time.
Others say, bounties, tariffs, all these things may have been overdone.
Could we not have attained the same end by lowering the tariff to five francs?
It is equally incontestable that a swamp, a bog, etc., are veritable protective tariffs.
The Administrator appointed a 'board composed of economists ... who ... were instructed to work out a tariff law which would contemplate the abolition of the theory of protection as a governmental policy.'
We denounce things, from the existing social order, to the tariff on stockings.
So, e.g., protective tariffs, and the like discrimination in shipping, are still advocated as a means of making the nation self-supporting, self-contained, self-sufficient; with a view to readiness in the event of hostilities.
His axioms began with the plow made under a high tariff.
The cost of its production, in the judgment of those engaged in it, was increased by the operation of a tariff, whereas its price, being determined by the markets of the world, derived no benefit from protective duties.
The present generation is more familiar with questions relating to slavery, to war, to reconstruction; but as these disappear by permanent adjustment the tariff returns, and is eagerly seized upon by both sides to the controversy.
A picture of the industrial condition of the country at that day can be inferred from the tariff bill first passed; and the manufactures that were deemed worthy of encouragement are clearly outlined in the debate.
There was a general feeling that the Act of 1828 marked a crisis in the history of tariff discussion, and that it would in some way lead to important results in the fate of political parties and political leaders.
Clay publicly asserted that the severest depression he had witnessed in the country was during the seven years preceding the tariff of 1824, and that the highest prosperity was during the seven years following that Act.
I see with malicious joy that the exportation tariff is to be removed from hops.
The burden of its complaint was the national tariff, which bore heavily on the cotton and rice planters.
What was really on trial was the American system, the Tariff of 1828.
Pursued historically, the student would find himself at the roots of property, separate ownership of land, inheritance, taxation, free trade and tariff, and discover the germs of international law and the state.
They have tried combinations of many sorts to keep up prices, and at last have found in the trust a strong and effective means of killing home competition and keeping up their profits, if they choose, to the highest point which the tariff permits.
The Morrill tariff bill came nearer than any other to meeting the double requirement of providing ample revenue for the support of the government and of rendering the proper protection to home industries.
The real difficulty in our tariff laws is to avoid unequal and unjust discrimination in the objects of protection, made with a view to favor the productions of one state or section at the cost of another state or section.
We are in favor of a tariff for revenue with incidental protection to American industry.
The removal of the duty on wool had paralyzed the industry, and the tariff must be restored.
The extension of trade is a matter of tariffs rather than of war, and in any case the trade of a country with its own acquisitions by conquest is a comparatively insignificant portion of its total trade.
A tariff on imports meant protection to home industries and to free white labor, both inimical to slavery.
Food was inordinately dear, because a high tariff had been imposed on imports.
The woolen industry had profited least of all those which had been protected by the Tariff of 1824.
The "tariff of abominations" deserves all the abuse which has been heaped upon it.
High tariff as well as low tariff newspapers made great outcry against these monopolies.
Its interests profoundly influenced the details of those tariffs and its need of internal improvement constituted a basis for sectional bargaining in all the constructive legislation after the War of 1812.
He was a prominent member of the House, a good speaker, although he always prepared his addresses at great length, principally on the tariff; but he did not confine himself to his manuscripts entirely.
Randall was one of the prominent Democrats of his day; but strange to say he favored a protective tariff.
This message naturally precipitated a tariff discussion in both House and Senate, and the Democratic majority of the House considered it incumbent on them to make some attempt to carry out the President's policy.
We all thought it incumbent upon us to make speeches for home consumption, for campaign use, showing the iniquities of the Mills Bill, and of the Democratic tariff generally, although we knew it was impossible for either bill to become law.
At first the Republicans tried to make the tariff the issue, and in a sense it remained one of the most important; but we were soon compelled to accept silver as the issue, and fight it out on that line.