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...Tobacco is a necessity and should be free from taxation.- Blaine on Cleveland's Message...
Over four hundred new students have registered at Cornell this term bringing the total in attendance there to more than 1200, the largest registration in the history of the University. There are over one hundred graduates of other colleges taking advantage of the offer of free tuition to post graduates. The number of students in the law department and in the school of pharmacy is also largely increased. Sage college, the women's department, has so many students that the faculty are finding it difficult to provide accommodation for all. Indications all point to a very successful year...
...Bronson, L. S., claimed that the Mills bill was a jump at free trade. The country has flourished under the tariff to a remarkable degree. The speaker then touched upon Cleveland's attitude in civil service and the fisheries question...
...second speaker for the affirmative was Mr. F. B. Williams, L. S. He said that the old issue of the Republican party was dead. The present issue is tariff reform. The Mills bill is not free trade, for it retains an average duty of over 40 per cent. The present duty on lumber ought to be abolished, for it only protects Canadian workmen who are cutting off our forests in Maine...
...Magee, '89, was the last of the principal disputants. Protection, said he, is the rock on which the republicans stand. The best means of securing revenue is by indirect taxation. An equitable reduction in the tariff is what the Republicans contend for. Free wool, with a tax on cloth, would only put money into the pockets of the manufacturers, who would continue to keep up prices. Wages and profit are both higher here than in England, but under free trade both would fall...