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...have encouraged the economic and financial prosperity of the United States: the great failure of European harvests in 1897; the Spanish War, during which our sound credit enabled us to borrow $60,000,000 from European countries; the sudden increase of gold production; and the enactment of the Dingley tarriff...
...Republican Club last night adopted a platform endorsing the administration of President McKinley and approving the following measures: The late currency bill and the other financial legislation of the administration; the protective tarriff; a rigid adherence to the principles of civil service reform and of their extension to our new possessions; state and federal control of dangerous trusts; publicity of the affairs of trusts and removal of all duty on commodities controlled by trusts; government construction of the Isthmian canal; permanent retention of the Philippines. The policy of the administration regarding the Philippines was also endorsed...
...inclusion of Porto Rico within our customs boundaries involves, first, the enforcement there of our tarriff laws; and second, free importation into Porto Rico of American goods and free markets here for Porto Rican products. The negative are opposed to this policy, because it makes the former a condition precedent to the attainment of the latter. In framing a tariff for this country which was to apply there also, it would not be possible to give any amount of consideration to the needs of that one comparatively small island. The only, therefore, in which we can give her customs laws...
...Sanders Theatre this evening, the Harvard Republican Club will hold its second meeting. Ex-Gov. John D. Long will preside, and Senator J. R. Hawley of Connecticut will speak on the tarriff. Gov. Long is too well known, to need any introduction, but some words about Senator Hawley may not be out of place. He was graduated in 1847, from Hamilton College, New York, and three years later was admitted to the bar in Connecticut. In 1866, he was elected Governor of Connecticut, and since then he has held many high public offices. In 1872, he entered the House...
...Such comparisons prove too much-American Almanac for 1889, p. 103; Shoenhof's, The Industrial situation, p. 124; Wells' Practical Economics, p. 137; (3) There are many local causes which must necessarily make wages higher in one country than in another. (a) Natural advantages-D. N. Wells, Relation of Tarriff to Wages, p. 2; (b) Standing service-Wells as above; (c) Question of unoccupied land-Sumner, Protective Taxes and Wages; North American Review...