Word: trades
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Smith then laid aside his notes and chatted in a familiar way on various subjects connected with business-the falling off of the American carrying trade and the advisability of subsidizing, for unless American ships are subsidized, it is folly to suppose that a private citizen can build boats which will carry products cheaper than subsidized English or French ships...
...complicated tax system now existing in Mexico is much like that of mediaeval times, and men are so reluctant to enter business there and incur all the petty taxmen connected with it that trade is becoming restricted, and unless a radical change is made in the system the country may have to pass through another and more terrible revolution than any of the preceding ones...
...speaker deprecated the interference of Northern mugwumps in the Southern negro question for he thought that, when the mugwump left his free trade theories and sought to solve the negro question he was walking on unfamiliar ground. In conclnsion, Mr. Hallowell said the negro question onght not be considered as a race question but as a national question in which every true American ought to take an interest...
...only presumable object of such a subsidy would be (a) to restore by temporary encouragement the prosperity of American shipping. (b) to build up a prosperous trade with South and Central America; (c) to create a class of vessels available for war purposes-Majority report of Joint Select Committee of Congress on American shipping, House reports. 2n session, 47th Congress, vol. 1; Proceedings of the Pan-American Congress; Lalor's Encyclopaedia...
...argument of "building up a prosperous trade between the United States and Central and South America" does not justify such a subsidy; (a) Under the present high duties of the countries in question such a trade is impossible-House reports, 1882-83, I. 17-18; D. A. Wells, Our Merchant Marine pp. 202 208; Nation XLIX. 265 (b) Under low duties no artificial stimulus will be necessary for trade...