Word: tariffs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been long realized; it has been blocked right along by the "pork-barrel" specialists in the House. The question of simplified income taxes shows that while the President has been in the sick-bed he has not lost the "common touch." He comes out in favor of a tariff revision that will enable foreign countries to pay off their vast debts to us; at the same time he points out the desirability of fostering our great dyestuff industry that was created during...
Dean Haskins served as the American member of the Saar Valley Commission at the Peace Conference during the last year, while Professor Taussig was an economic adviser with the American Commission at Paris. He has also served recently as chairman of the United States Tariff Commission. Mr. Corcoran is a prominent Cambridge merchant...
Professor F. W. Taussig '79, chairman of the Federal Tariff Commission, was directed last week by President Wilson to proceed abroad for service in connection with the peace negotiations in Paris, and has already sailed. The Commission has made a study of the tariff relations between the United States and other countries, and it is assumed that Professor Taussig will be asked to advise the American representatives in regard to the commercial features of the treaty...
That caused "protectionists" to sit up and take notice that the President is a dangerous man. So he is to privilege mongers and privilege seekers. The "American Protective Tariff League" is out in angry opposition. On January 17 they declared that they "recognize in this latest assault upon the doctrine of true Americanism, by the President, fresh reason for presenting a solid, united, aggressive front for a nation-wide educational propaganda for the restoration of Protection...
...Botolph street, Boston. Believing that "protection" is iniquity, the principal cause of war, the league is out to destroy it in all parts of the world. Its terms of membership are $1 per year, which includes payment for its quarterly bulletin. The secretary does not wish to hear from tariff-reformers or tariff-deformers, tariff-tinkerers, tariff-for-revenuers, or tariff-tolerators of any kind. If you are a tariff-destroyer, an absolutely free trader, and wish to join the army of the living God of justice and peace, write and enroll. Do it now, for the Philistines are "united...