Is Protection a Benefit?: A Plea for the NegativeA. C. McClurg, 1888 - 274 sivua |
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absolute free trade Adam Smith adopted advantage agricultural American amount argument artificial assertion average benefit bounty burden cause census census of 1880 cheap claim clamor commerce compelled competition Congress consumers Corn Laws cost cotton demand dollars domestic duction duty economic enacted England English Europe exchange existence expense exports fact fallacy farm farmers favor foreign free-traders Government gratuity Hamilton Tariff hence high protection high wages higher home market importation increase indirect taxation interests iron John Bright labor legislation less loss machinery manufac manufacturers millions Morrill Tariff nation natural never operatives paid pauper plea profit prosperity protected articles protected industries protectionists protective tariff purchase question quinine raised raw material reduced restriction revenue tariff Richard Cobden secure sell ships sugar sumers taxation tection theory thing tion to-day treasury true truth twenty United vote Walker Tariff wealth wheat wool woollen
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Sivu 63 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant ; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Sivu 29 - X. That as the profits of the trade of these colonies ultimately center in Great Britain, to pay for the manufactures which they are obliged to take from thence, they eventually contribute very largely to all supplies granted there to the crown. XI. That the restrictions imposed by several late acts of Parliament on the trade of these colonies, will render them unable to purchase the manufactures of Great Britain.
Sivu 266 - From the- nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro...
Sivu vi - But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Sivu 35 - American independence, like the great rivers of the country, had many sources ; but the head-spring which colored all the stream was the Navigation Act.
Sivu 243 - Such facts as these, touching the growth and consumption of cereals at home, give us some slight conception of the vastness of the internal commerce of the United States. They suggest also, that, in addition to the advantages which the American people enjoy from protection against foreign competition, they enjoy the advantages of absolute free trade over a larger area and with a greater population than any other nation.
Sivu 159 - Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave; "When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye.
Sivu 36 - ... those interior regulations which it shall find most convenient to itself; and by founding the advantage of commerce solely upon reciprocal utility and the just rules of free intercourse ; reserving withal to each party the liberty of admitting at its pleasure other nations to a participation of the same advantages.
Sivu 135 - That the average American workman performs from one and a half to twice as much work, in a given time, as the average European workman.