Word: billing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question for debate was: Resolved, that the McKinley Tariff Bill should be passed...
...debate was opened for the affirmative by G. R. Dorsey, Gr. He said that the bill ought to be passed because the people showed by the last election that they wanted a moderate protective administration. It has been carefully drawn up to further the interests of the country at large. Forty-eight articles have been placed on the free list, while eighteen articles formerly on the free list have been made dutiable. In this bill the Republican pledge to reduce the tariff has been carried out. Books and works of art have been put on the free list, also sugar...
...Hale, '92, opened for the negative. He said in brief that the bill now occupies over sixty pages; that it discriminates between certain industries Several arguments are given why we should have Protection: That it affords an easy way of collecting revenue. Although this is true to a certain extent, yet if we should become engaged in a foreign war we would lose our foreign trade and therefore our revenue also. Second, that this tax is paid by foreigners. Not so; it is paid by the consumer at home. Third, that it benefits the farmer. Now the duty amounts...
...Brackett, '91, followed for the negative. The McKinley bill is not just. Those who have had the strongest "pull" have benefitted themselves to the detriment of those who were less skilled in the use of the political machine. The bill discriminates between rich and poor. For example the cheap articles used by the poorer classes pay a heavy duty. Less than one-fifth of the inhabitants of the United States are benefitted by protection...
Question: Resolved, That the McKinley Tariff Bill should be passed...