Word: trade
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...platform was adopted containing the following principles: Opposition to imperialism, to the present tariff rate, to trusts, and to an increase of the army; support of free trade for Porto Rico, of the reduction of the war tax, of an increase of the navy, of civil service reform, and of the gold standard...
...Yale was that the revenue law would be a hardship for Porto Rico and this Harvard did not successfully meet. Likewise, through clever rebuttal, the Harvard argument that, through Americanization of the island a permanent policy would be secured, was weakened. Leavitt argued that Hawaii was Americanized without free trade and Porto Rico would be. Morse said in Hawaii the fact of the existence of reciprocity made the case different. In his rebuttal speech Leavitt showed that reciprocity was possible under the Yale plan...
...government granted the island more beneficent privileges than any other Spanish colony enjoyed. Yet the people accepted American occupation willingly, relying on the promise of General Miles that they should enjoy the same privileges and immunities as the people of the United States. One of those privileges was equal trade rights with every other part of the United States...
...Sophomore-Freshman debate was won by the Sophomores, represented by J. H. Holmes, E. H. Letchworth, aed E. Bernbaum. The Sophomores contended that the retention of the Philippines would increase the trade of the United States with the islands of the Pacific and with China, and that the Filipinos would never be capable of self-government. The Freshmen were unable to refute these claims satisfactorily, and rested their case on the claim that it was best for the United States to cede the Philippines to Germany. The Sophomores overthrew both the advisability and the possibility of this...
...probable that at present in case of disputes between combinations and trade unions the former would be much stronger than individual corporations. Leading trade-unionists, however, believe that in the near future the unions will become so strong in organization that they will be able to wrest from the combinations a good share of the profits, which are now distributed to shareholders...