Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first of a series of lectures to be given under the auspices of the Free Wool club was delivered last evening in Sever by William Lloyd Garrison, who spoke on "How Protection Protects Wool and Woolens...
...Garrison began by reviewing the early history of tariff legislation when its purpose was to foster an industry not strong enough to exist of itself, and when no one denied that a tariff was a tax. He considered briefly the causes which led to the revenue tariff of 1847, and described the wonderful prosperity which the country enjoyed in the decade which followed. He declared that notwithstanding the incubus of the industrial condition of the south the country has never had greater material properity than during the year between...
...trade followed. Business men could not suddenly comprehend the cause of the situation. They sought help from the government, and a tariff more stringent than any of its predecessors-the tariff of 1868, was enacted. That tariff is now twenty-two years old, and as a wool dealer, Mr. Garrison did not hesitate to affirm that it is a disappointment...
...Garrison next touched upon the wage question, and the encouragement which the tariff offers to smuggling and fraudulent invoices, and concluded by declaring the impending doom of the protective tariff, and the triumph of the principle of tariff reform...
...William Lloyd Garrison will speak this evening at the rooms of the Free Wool club in Roberts hall on the subject "How protection protects free wool." The lecture is open to all members of the university...