Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...protective system enables us to obtain the greatest amount of wealth from our agricultural, manufacturing and commercial industries, and possesses inestimable social and political advantages:- C. D. Henning, The Advantages of a Protective Tariff; Stebbins, American Protectionist Manual...
...Republican party is a party of a free ballot.- North American Review 1879, p. p., 173, 248 and 282. St. Louis Globe Democrat (in Public Opinion...
...success of the Republican party means the continuance of the American protective system; while the success of the Democratic party means the ultimate overthrow of that system. Debates on the tariff in Congressional Record, April 17 to May 19, 1888; Henry Watterson, The Tariff for revenue only, (Harper's Magazine, Jan. 1888); Geo. F. Edmunds, The Tariff. Harper's Magazine...
...foreign policy of the present administration has been weak and unpatriotic. a.- The President failed to act under retaliatory law passed by congress in 1887.- Speech of Benjamin F. Butler, Aug. 31, 1888. b.- The administration has been generally inefficient.- James G. Blaine (in American Magazine Sept...
...hundred and fifty dollars has been offered by the American Economic Association as a prize for the best essay on "The Evils of Unrestricted Emigration...