Word: trading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...called upon Mr. Boyden to read the list of vice-presidents in order to show what men were represented by this meeting. Judge Rockwell Hoar was then introduced who made a convincing speech. He as an old Harvard graduate thought that if Harvard professors taught free trade, in the abstract they were right, but since in this country we are confronted by necessity, we have to consider in what manner we may best support ourselves in the contest for a living...
...Cleveland has stood openly on the side of free trade and the speaker questioned whether he had been the clean, non-partisan president which he had promised...
...college ceases to be on the side of the common people, then she ceases to support those principles for which she was founded. The Republican Party is not a free whiskey party nor is its tariff principles the favorite one in England. The Mills bill is for free trade while the senate bill is clearly for protection. This crisis is the most important since the war, and whatever is the result of the election, its decision will go on for many years to come...
...second speaker for the affirmative was Mr. F. B. Williams, L. S. He said that the old issue of the Republican party was dead. The present issue is tariff reform. The Mills bill is not free trade, for it retains an average duty of over 40 per cent. The present duty on lumber ought to be abolished, for it only protects Canadian workmen who are cutting off our forests in Maine...
...equitable reduction in the tariff is what the Republicans contend for. Free wool, with a tax on cloth, would only put money into the pockets of the manufacturers, who would continue to keep up prices. Wages and profit are both higher here than in England, but under free trade both would fall...