Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Taussig's "Tariff History of the United States...
...competing for the prizes offered by the American Protective Tariff League must have their essays at the office of the League, No 23 West 23d street, New York, on or before March...
...anomaly that our colleges should teach a system which is directly opposed to the settled tariff policy adopted by our country almost from its foundation, and which intelligent men are soon forced to abandon. "This radical divergence between university training and the wise national policy which is overwhelmningly supported by the people (for very few Democrats are willing to be called free traders), is greatly to be deplored. The colleges cannot educate the mass of Americans to their doctrines, but they will alienate the university from the practical, thinking heart of the people, and displace it from the esteem...
...before us is one of extreme dignity, said the speaker, and should not be considered merely in the light of state law; but it is a question of the disunion of families, and therefore should be regarded of the highest import to the rulers of our country. Like the tariff, it is bound to become a national question in spite of our efforts to the contrary. The speaker then went on to show the impracticability of several methods of changing the law, and finally ended by discussing the advantages of constitutional amendment...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- The national election has been the all-absorbing topic of conversation on the campus and at the eating clubs, during the past week, and has interested Princeton during the greater part of the fall term. Campaign clubs, torchlight parades, and tariff debates have been the events of the hour, and have been peculiarly interesting on account of their novelty, as election comes but once during a college course. The college is divided politically in the ratio of two Republicans to one Democrat, and the result has accordingly been satisfactory to the majority of the students. College enjoyed...