An Examination of the New Tariff Proposed by the Hon. Henry Baldwin ...

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Gould & Banks, 1921 - 268 páginas

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Página 30 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Página 219 - ... flourished. The only question which, on this subject, they have entertained, is, whether the advantages hitherto enjoyed by our shipping might not be compatible with increased facilities afforded to trade, and its relief from some of the restrictions which the provisions of these laws impose upon it. They are convinced, that every restriction on the freedom of commerce is in itself an evil...
Página 9 - ... but if they might be true, then this dream might be so upon equal reason : and then dreams were vain, because this dream, which told him so, was true ; and so round again. In the same circle runs the heart of man : all his cogitations are vain, and yet he makes especial use of this, that that thought which thinks so, that is vain ; and if that be vain, then his other thoughts, which are vainly declared so, may be real, and relied upon.
Página 9 - That man,' says the inimitable bishop, ' was prettily and fantastically troubled, who, having used to put his trust in dreams, one night dreamed that all dreams were vain ; for he considered, if so, then this was vain, and the dreams might be true for all this.
Página 32 - Hope, or any place beyond the same, or from beyond Cape Horn; or ten per centum if from any other place...
Página 67 - To insure the end, it seems equally safe and prudent to extend the duty, ad valorem, upon all manufactures of iron, or of which iron is the article of chief value, to ten per cent.
Página 60 - The remark is true ot this as of all other manufactures, that the farmer is among those who derive the most profit from their success. It is a matter of most perfect astonishment, that so important an article should have been not only so perfectly and wantonly abandoned by the present tariff, but pointedly selected for reprobation by a strange policy — which, whilst it raised the duties on most other articles, reduced that on iron nearly 100 per cent. — From 1804 until 1815, it was at seventeen...
Página 44 - ... are now made cheaper than they were ever imported. The remark is equally true of nails, and every other article of which this country commands the consumption. The domestic competition will have this effect on every article.

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