Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prot. Sumner will deliver a lecture before the New York Free Trade Club, Friday evening, on "The Effect of Protective Taxes on National Prosperity...
...colonists and their geographical situation which caused this prosperity. A tariff, however, tends to destroy the self-reliance of the manufacturer, and teaches him to depend on the support of the government, where he should depend on his own abilities. This is the most dangerous and demoralizing effect of a system of high tariff. A tariff forces capital into those occupations where it would not naturally go, and where the natural advantage is relatively small, and thus the condition of many naturally weak industries is very precarious on account of the possible changes in the rate of duty. The condition...
...without a flaw, accident, or delay. The popular airs chosen for the songs proved to be taking, and were well rendered by the chorus, especially the "Ding Dong" song, given behind the scenes, at the beginning of the second act. The solos of Baldwin and of Carroll were effectively sung, and enjoyed by all. The strong part of the play, however, lay in the acting of Cushing, Hearst, and Swinscoe. These three gentlemen have an uncommon power of producing comic effect. Their superiority to the other performers was partly due to a careful avoidance, on their part, of all meaningless...
Suppose the direct distribution of monies, raised by appropriation in the usual way, to manufacturers suffering from competition. The evils of this method are evident. Yet the tariff system is in effect such a distribution. The manufacturers ask Congrees for aid by tariff, and usually get it. Only the protected manufacturers can be thus dependent. Yet tendencies to dependence are unquestionably corruptive. Protection was early proposed for the "infant" industries. Only lately was it advocated for perpetuity. American manufacturers have surely progressed; but still they seem to have grown no less dependent...
...afraid that I have dwelt entirely upon the dark side of cadet life. To tell you the truth, I am even now in confinement, and though that is no unusual thing with me, it actually had a depressing effect. If you would know the other side of the story, ask some summer visitor, who will tell you that a cadet is the happiest and merriest of mortals, and as for his surroundings, why lrving failed signally in his description of the grand old river and its legendary hills...