Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they could secure a privileged position for their doctrines and their speakers. They need such extraneous support. 'Dogmatism' is a big word. It is easy to sling it about. It answers no facts or arguments. The protectionists fall back on authority. Henry Clay believed in protection. Lincoln signed the tariff bill. Charles Sumner voted for it, etc. I have never debated all that rubbish. The tariff question is not to be settled by any such considerations as that. The protectionists get lachrymose. They are grieved that there is not more respect for autiquity. They sigh to think that young...
...duty of the virile mind to follow them. They are taught as principles to be adjusted by the minds that receive them to the situations in which they may subsequently find themselves. Probably neither Prof. Perry, nor Prof. Sumner, nor Prof. Dunbar, would advocate such a revolution in our tariff system as the adoption of absolute free trade. But free trade is the only legitimate rationale of the science, and in spite of natural obstructions it is the duty of all society to lean toward it, even though it may never be able to attain that economic ideal...
Both houses of Congress are still discussing the tariff...
...Taussig's lecture last night on the "History of the Tariff Legislation of the United States" drew an audience that completely filled Sever Hall. The lecturer dwelt particularly on the acts of 1789 and 1816. The first, which levied very low duties, ranging from five to fifteen per cent., did not touch upon those industries which have since become the great objects of protective controversies. The controversy of 1789 has little connection with those of subsequent years. In 1808, after the embargo, manufacturers, in the sense that we understand them, began, and the textile fabrics and other goods of that...
...Taussig gives the first of his series of lectures on the History of Tariff Legislation in Sever 11 at 7.30 this evening. This lecture will cover the period...