Word: trading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...produce ships suitable for our foreign carrying trade; therefore they should be put on the free list: Wells. "Our Merchant Marine...
...present policy is "vicious, inequitable and unjust" in that while purporting to protect American shipping it really ensures to foreigners a monopoly of our foreign carrying trade, and protects them in the enjoyment of it to our own detriment: Report of Secretary of Treasury, 1887, xliv.; Kelley, "Question of Ships;" Wells, "Our Merchant Marine...
...should build and manage our own ships exclusively.- (1) Because only in so doing can we gain the whole profit of our carrying trade: "Shall Americans build ships?" No. Am. Review, May, 1881, pp. 473-4; "American Shipping Interests," (pamphlet), pp. 6, 44, 48-51.- (2) Because, by so doing, we employ American labor, and use American materials: "American Shipping Interests," (pam.), p. 20.- (3) Because, in the long run, we can build as cheaply at home as we can buy or build abroad: John Roach, speech before Boston Board of Trade (pam); No. Am. Review...
...educate the laborers so that they may be less blind to the labor problems of the day. With this end in view, he has rented a hall near the place where the workingmen live, and holds free discussions there every Thursday evening on such subjects as the tariff, trade-unions, convict and Chinese labor, the eight hour system, and strikes. These meetings are well attended, the men show considerable intelligence, and after a little while are able to argue very well. He has, besides, regular classes in political economy, where he reads and talks to those who are interested enough...
...spite of the storm, a large audience assembled in Sever 11 last night to hear the strongest argument for free trade that has been made here for some time. The lecturer, Rev. John G. Brooks of Brockton, said that the argument that a high tariff raises wages is entirely untenable, and that private self-interest, not anxiety about the condition of the laborer, was the real motive of the protectionist. The general average of wages is entirely unaffected by protection, since the rate of wages depends only on the amount produced by the laborer. It is said that when wages...