Word: trade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Congress which came in in 1842 put in a new tariff, entirely different from that of 1833. The Whigs being then in power, passed a bill for the levying of very high duties, and the bill was prompted through party feeling entirely. The tariff of 1846 was a free trade tariff, and it was framed by Robert J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury. Thus specific duties were shown to be better than ad valorem duties, on account of the easiness of collection. In 1857 there was a general reduction from the tariff of 1846, in order to lessen the revenues...
...late Dr. Bacon, of New Haven, once said to Professor Summer of Yale College, "I do not see anything in free trade except, 'Thou shalt not steal...
...Journal, Weekly Magazine, Unity, Index, Louisville Courier Journal, Cambridge Tribune, Vicksburg Herald, New York Weekly Witness, New York Clipper, Spirit of the Times, Turf, Field and Farm, Harper's Weekly, Life, Punch, Puck, London Illustrated News, London Graphic, The Nation, Progress, Good Literature, Episcopal Recorder, Musical Critic and Trade Review, The Wheel, Bicycling World, San Francisco Argonaut. Monthly-Musical Herald, Wheelman, Modern Age. College papers-Yale Courant, Record and News, Princetonian, Tiger, Columbia Spectator and Acta Columbiana, and all the periodicals of thirty-five other colleges, including Amherst, Brown, Williams, Dartmouth...
...action of the person or persons who recently sent marked copies of the New York Tribune, containing a personal attack upon a popular professor, to the students of Yale College. Such interference is in the highest degree impudent and underhanded. It is not at all a question of free trade or protection which is involved. The case is one of the greatest concern to all college men, as it strikes directly at the right of instructors to teach in the way that seems best to them. However disagreeable the teachings of a professor may seem...
...Yale papers express themselves very strongly against the recent personal attack of the New York Tribune, and believe that such methods are likely to do more injury than benefit to the cause of protection even in a college so little inclined to free trade as Yale...