Word: traders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...methods. This is shown by the fact that the text books used are those of Adam Smith and Malthus, Mill and Jevons, even American works like those of Perry and Sumner following in the line of foreign teaching. As the result, the great majority of college students are free traders at their graduation. After leaving college, however, they see the actual condition of trade and the perplexing questions growing out of the selfish rivalry of grasping nations to monopolize commerce, which the college professors did not. The result of experience is to make the free trader a staunch protectionist...
...junior class at Williams has just enjoyed four lectures on "Protection" by Prof. Thompson of the University of Pennsylvania. These lectures were intended to counterbalance the lectures in political economy given by Prof. Perry who is a free trader...
...once in the year. Before the races there are to be found both Harvard and Yale peanuts and sandwiches but afterwards only one kind remains in stock, and that kind is sure to be well patronized by the supporters of the victorious crew. Of a truth the New London trader is a happy man, for, while the Cambridge or New Haven merchant must suffer in turn the distress of unpaid bills, he has shekels unnumbered thrust into his very face...
Kansas has a newspaper called the Free Trader devoted to that cause...
...University of Michigan advocates free trade enthusiastically; it is advocated by both faculty and students. At Williams the majority of the faculty are protectionists, but Prof. Perry, the teacher of political economy, is a very decided free trader, as is also his son, an instructor there. The senior class number twenty-seven in favor of his doctrine, and thirteen opposed to it. Two-thirds of the class of '80 were protectionists; '81 showed a majority of free traders, also '82 and '84. Harvard and Yale teach the free trade theory, while Princeton is just now in an unsettled state...