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...reduces the revenue $55,000,000; McKinley in Cong. Record 1890, XXI 5015. - a) This revenue is needed to carry on the government: - Boston Post passim, Pub. Opinion X, 197. - (b) Formerly the sugar duty was as light a burden upon the people as any other tariff tax: - Breckenridge as above. - (c) Other onerous taxes should have been abolished before this one: - Boatner in Cong...
...bounty provision is opposed to good public policy. - (a) It is contrary to the spirit of the constitution: - T. H. Benton quoted in Cong. Rec., XXI, appnd. X, 391. Speech of S. M. Robertson in ditto. (b) It is a drain without limit on the national treasury. eg. beet sugar, sec. 235 of Bill. Even McKinley estimates $7000.000 expenditure the first year. (c) It is the protective spirit in its worst form...
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...injures the laborer. - (a) By increasing prices while wages do not increase: Public Opinion, X, 3, 51; Boston Post, Oct. 23, 1890. - (b) By diminishing production it gives employment to fewer hand: Public Opinion, X. 3, 50. - (c) Higher duties increase immigration and intensify competition in the labor world: Forum, June...
...Brooks chose for his text the latter part of St. John x, 10. "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. After first welcoming to the college new students he said...