Word: tariffs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following questions will be presented by the executive committee at the Harvard Union this evening: 1, That the tariff tends to foster trusts; 2, That the World's Fair should be held in Chicago; 3, That the result of the Pan-American congress will be beneficial to the United States...
...Republican platform advocates both: (a) principles which the president has no power to carry out . e. g. tariff, marine legislation, party bills etc., and (b) principles which the president has power to carry out e. g. diptomatic and territorial appointments etc.-Platform in Republican text book...
Best general reference: Professor F. W. Taussig's article in Forum for October, 1888. Evils of the Tariff system, in North American Review, September 8, 1884; Sumner on Protective Taxes and Wages, in Fortnightly review...
...Careful use of statistics show higher relative wages under a low tariff. (1) High wages in the United States are set by unprotected industries. Laughlin's note to Mill, p. 619. (2) Compare wages in protected industries in the United States and wages in those same industries in England-Report of J. G. Blaine, secretary of state, on the Button Goods Trade of the World, published by Department of State, Washington, June 25, 1881, (cited in Wells', Relation of the Tariff to Wages); Wells' Practical Economics, p. 143. (3) Wages in United States higher than abroad before there...
...tariff increases the price of commodities, and thus puts them out of the reach of the poorer classes. Their real wages thus become less-Sumner, Protective Taxes and Wages...