Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Free Wool club held its fifth meeting last evening in 16 Matthews for the purpose of distributing membership shingles. The club was formed about the first of March and has for its object: to promote, and to provide means for the study of tariff reform, and for the study of the best methods of popular government. The club already has over fifty men on its membership roll among whom are many of those who were most interested in the Tariff Reform club last fall...
...duty on sugar should be reduced because: (a) it is excessive.- D. A. Wells, Report on Sugar Industries; (b) a reduction would greatly reduce the price of sugar; (c) the duty is more of the nature of a revenue tax than a protective tariff.- Thompson's Protection to Home Industries, p. 105; (d) it retards, rather than advances, the production of domestic cane sugar.- Congressional Record, Jan. 18, 1889. D. 934 (e) a reduction would decrease the present surplus.- Public Opinion, July...
...bounty should be granted because: (a) a bounty would make good to the domestic producer any losses occasioned by a reduction of tariff.- Mr. White, in Congressional Record, July 9, 1888, p. 6019; (b) the payment of a bounty would be a just and satisfactory method of reducing the surplus; (c) in this case a bounty would be better than a duty.- John Sherman in Congressional Record, Jan. 18, 1889, p. 931; Hamilton's Works, Vol. III., p. 246; (d) The beet-sugar industries of other countries have been built up by the bounty system.- Encyclopedia Brit., Vol. XXII...
Taussig's "Tariff History of the United States...
Taussig's "Tariff History of the United States...