Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bill is urged by politicians in order to catch the Grand Army vote.- 2. It is a scheme to lessen the surplus and thus maintain the tariff.- 3. It will increase the present great army of thieves and plunderers of the treasury: Public Opinion, II, 370-3; Nation, 40, p, 172; Nation, 43, p. 48; Vest's speech...
...next subject for debate is: "Resolved that a reduction of the tariff would hurt the wage-earner...
Resolved, That a reduction of the tariff would hurt the wage-earner...
...without foundation. It was said, for instance, that there were 4,000 articles that pay duty-the President even says so in his message-but Mr. Lodge, after making a careful count of all the enumerated articles, finds that there are only 1,112. The idea that the present tariff is a war tariff is also false. We have always had a tariff of some kind ever since the foundation of the Republic. The real war tax is the internal revenue tax which was imposed solely to carry on the war. The tariff of 1883 has a free list...
...Henry Cabot Lodge will lecture at 8 this evening in Sanders Theatre under the auspices of the Finance Club. His subject will be "The Protective Tariff System...