Word: trade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Surbridge, for the negative, showed that very few immigrants in proportion to the whole number even knew a trade, and that skilled laborers were too few to number. He also showed that large numbers were now imates, of our alms houses and prisons...
Best general references.- Taussig, Forum VI. p 169; Thompson's Ireland and Free Trade...
...shown historically that a high protective tariff raises wages-(a) Effect of tariff in England and Ireland. (b) Effect of tariff in Germany and United States-Porter's "Bread Winners Abroad;" Seank's International Trade Report...
...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 was any protection in the United States-Nation, October 25, 1888. (4) New South Wales...
...American shipping interest can be restored without the cost of subsidies by a revision of the navigation law; primarily, by a revision in favor of the free purchase and ownership of vessels for foreign trade.- Well's Our Merchant Marine pp. 95-128; North American Review, vol. 142, pp. 481-484; Codman in Shipbuilders and Commerce phamphlets 4 and 2; Atlantic...