Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another column we print a list of topics which will form the subjects of a series of lectures soon to be delivered under the auspices of the Massachusetts Tariff Reform League. The names of the lecturers warrant us in the belief that this course of lectures will be one of great interest, not only to the business men of Boston, for whom the course is especially designed, but also for all who are interested in the study of Political Economy. The lectures to be delivered by Professor Sumner, of Yale, and by Dr. Taussig, of our own political economy department...
...Thompson's last lecture on Protection last evening, was delivered before a very large audience. Indeed, the attendance at all of his four lectures has been such as to speak well for the interest which is taken by the students in this great economic question of the day, the tariff. We now look forward to the lectures which are to be given on Free Trade by an apostle of that school, only hoping that the lecturer may be as able, and as interesting as the gentleman who has so eloquently presented the other side of the question...
Prof. Thompson devoted his time last evening to the answering of arguments commonly urged against the Tariff. It is impossible to have a perfect law. It is not claimed that the Tariff is a cure-all for all industrial evils; its object is to equalize conditions, to promote home production and to improve the condition of all classes. One of the chief objections urged against Protection is that prices are raised. But does any one imagine that iron, for example, would have been as cheap as it is now, had not that industry been fostered and protected? The increased production...
Again it is said that the Tariff stimulates over-production. but it is a very difficult thing to say that we have over-production. This is said to be the cause of hard times, but it is in fact hard times that often causes this overproduction. America has no monopoly of hard times. Free Trade countries suffer as much as we. The Tariff, therefore, cannot be charged with this common evil. If we remove this protection to our industries, we make America the dumping ground for Europe's surplus manufactures. Protection is antagonistic to commerce, we are told...
Lecture on the Protective Tariff. Sever...