Word: trades
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...London Board of Trade...
...statistics of Mr. Peck of New York, who quoted 90,000 individual cases, as to the prosperity of the country, Mr. Stone showed that the Democratic platform claimed a direct loss, owing to increased mortgages on farms. He further claimed that England supported the measure for Free Trade in this country, for the purpose of bolstering up her own shattered interests...
...government under which prosperity has existed has never been turned out of office, and next week we do not turn out the Harrison administration. It has been stated that the reciprocity clause in the McKinley bill is a concession to free trade. It gives the president power to reimpose duties on articles, as it is needful by the actions of other nations. Where reciprocity has had time to act, mills flourish, the increase is tremendous, and the cost of living decreases while wages increase...
...main principle of the Democratic party is a reform of the tariff in the interests of the consumers.-(a) Republican reciprocity no remedy;-(b) Free Trade not the issue...
...Democratic party is necessarily one of criticism. The Mills Bill was a measure of tariff destruction, not of tariff reform. Notice that in the attempts of the Democrats to get "free trade," free manufactured goods comes first, raw materials second...