American Tariff Controversies in the Nineteenth Century, Svazek 2

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1903
 

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Strana 103 - That, while providing revenue for the support of the General Government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country...
Strana 8 - And from and after the day last aforesaid, all duties upon imports shall be collected in ready money ; and all credits now allowed by law in the payment of duties shall be, and hereby are, abolished ; and such duties shall be laid for the purpose of raising such revenue as may be necessary to an economical administration of the government...
Strana 298 - ... competition with the products of American labor there should be levied duties equal to the difference between wages abroad and at home. We assert that the prices of manufactured articles of general consumption have been reduced under the operations of the Tariff act of 1890.
Strana 208 - Knowing full well, however, that legislation affecting the operations of the people should be cautious and conservative in method, not in advance of public opinion, but responsive to its demands, the Democratic party is pledged to revise the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests.
Strana 182 - ... revenue, except so much as may be derived from a tax upon tobacco and liquors, should be raised by duties upon importations, the details of which should be so adjusted as to aid in securing remunerative wages to labor, and promote the industries, prosperity, and growth of the whole country.
Strana 182 - We demand a system of Federal taxation which shall not unnecessarily interfere with the industry of the people, and which shall provide the means necessary to pay the expenses of the government, economically administered, the pensions, the interest on the public debt, and a moderate reduction annually of the principal thereof; and recognizing that there are in...
Strana 121 - Products of fish and of all other creatures living in the water. Poultry, eggs. Hides, furs, skins or tails undressed. Stone or marble in its crude or unwrought state.
Strana 300 - Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few.
Strana 223 - That this convention hereby indorses and recommends the early passage of the bill for the reduction of the revenue now pending in the House of Representatives.
Strana 30 - That all minimums, and all specific duties, should be abolished, and ad valorem duties substituted in their place — care being taken to guard against fraudulent invoices and undervaluation, and to assess the duty upon the actual market value. 6. That the duty should be so imposed as to operate as equally as possible throughout the Union, discriminating neither for nor against any class or section.

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