American Tariffs from Plymouth Rock to McKinley; A Complete and Impartial History of Our Tariff Systems, 1620-1891 pdf
American Tariffs from Plymouth Rock to McKinley; A Complete and Impartial History of Our Tariff Systems, 1620-1891 pdf
American Tariffs from Plymouth Rock to McKinley; A Complete and Impartial History of Our Tariff Systems, 1620-1891 by Daniel G Harriman
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Author: Daniel G Harriman
Page Count: 40 pages
Published Date: 19 May 2012
Publisher: Not Avail
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781236209283
File size: 42 Mb
Download Link: American Tariffs from Plymouth Rock to McKinley; A Complete and Impartial History of Our Tariff Systems, 1620-1891
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...his plea: "Let us have free raw materials, and the cost of home-made goods will be so reduced that we can export largely and take the foreign markets." We have not for years paid any duties on cottons, hides, paper stock, silk, and many other articles. Yet with these raw materials free we do not export of the manufactured goods in these lines, as much as we import, as the following table proves: FOB THE FREE TRADER TO EXPLAIN.-Now a very pertinent question arises at this point, and it demands a satisfactory answer from the free trader: "If your plea is true, why is it that, with free raw materials in these four important articles--and the list might be largely extended--our imports of articles manufactured therefrom, so greatly exceed our exports of the manufactured articles in the same lines? R. Q. MILLS' BRILLIANT ANSWER.-At a great Democratic mass meeting in New Haven in the campaign of 1888 Mr. R. Q. Mills, of Texas, the great free trade leader, after making the familiar plea for raw materials, etc., was asked this very question by a respectable gentleman in the audience. Mr. Mills was evidently taken by surprise, but he answered it promptly by saying: "Go home, sir, and soak your head!" The wit and the lofty dignity of this answer were immense, and his audience cheered wildly. The protectionist need not discuss the politeness nor the pertinence of the answer, but he thinks that the facts warrant him in saying that it probably is as clear and intelligent an answer as any other free trader can formulate. As already stated, cotton is a free raw material, and yet it is an undeniable fact that our exports of manufactured cotton goods is constantly falling off. In 1889 our exports in these goods was, in yards, 42,331,080 less than in...
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American Tariffs from Plymouth Rock to McKinley; A Complete and Impartial History of Our Tariff Systems, 1620-1891 by Daniel G Harriman
Author: Daniel G Harriman
Page Count: 40 pages
Published Date: 19 May 2012
Publisher: Not Avail
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781236209283
File size: 42 Mb
Download Link: American Tariffs from Plymouth Rock to McKinley; A Complete and Impartial History of Our Tariff Systems, 1620-1891
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...his plea: "Let us have free raw materials, and the cost of home-made goods will be so reduced that we can export largely and take the foreign markets." We have not for years paid any duties on cottons, hides, paper stock, silk, and many other articles. Yet with these raw materials free we do not export of the manufactured goods in these lines, as much as we import, as the following table proves: FOB THE FREE TRADER TO EXPLAIN.-Now a very pertinent question arises at this point, and it demands a satisfactory answer from the free trader: "If your plea is true, why is it that, with free raw materials in these four important articles--and the list might be largely extended--our imports of articles manufactured therefrom, so greatly exceed our exports of the manufactured articles in the same lines? R. Q. MILLS' BRILLIANT ANSWER.-At a great Democratic mass meeting in New Haven in the campaign of 1888 Mr. R. Q. Mills, of Texas, the great free trade leader, after making the familiar plea for raw materials, etc., was asked this very question by a respectable gentleman in the audience. Mr. Mills was evidently taken by surprise, but he answered it promptly by saying: "Go home, sir, and soak your head!" The wit and the lofty dignity of this answer were immense, and his audience cheered wildly. The protectionist need not discuss the politeness nor the pertinence of the answer, but he thinks that the facts warrant him in saying that it probably is as clear and intelligent an answer as any other free trader can formulate. As already stated, cotton is a free raw material, and yet it is an undeniable fact that our exports of manufactured cotton goods is constantly falling off. In 1889 our exports in these goods was, in yards, 42,331,080 less than in...
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