Contest of 1888: Lives of the Candidates, Election Statistics and Party Platforms, Also, Tariff DiscussionsF. B. Dickerson & Company, 1888 - 128 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
16 Withdrawn Actual citizens administration agricultural Allan G American farmer amount Ballots June 22 Benjamin Harrison bill Blaine bonds Carolina Citiz Cleve Congress consumed cotton declared intent demand Democratic party dollars domestic duty elected England Erie County Europe export factures favor foreign France free-trade gentleman Grant-Rep Grover Cleveland Holland Patent home market honor House important increased Indiana indorse industries interest John Scott Harrison Judge Thurman labor land legislation Levi Parsons Morton Lincoln-Rep manu manufacturers nomination Ohio platform political present President Cleveland President's protection purchase railroad received reduce reform Republican party Required by Const Required by law revenue Senate sumers surplus tariff tariff laws tion to-day tobacco trade Treasury Union United United States Senate unnecessary taxation Virginia vote W'dwn wages wheat whiskey William Henry Harrison wise wool York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 45 - The Republican party would effect all needed reduction of the national revenue by repealing the taxes upon tobacco, which are an annoyance and burden to agriculture, and the tax upon spirits used in the arts, and for mechanical purposes, and by such revision of the tariff...
Seite 82 - Our progress toward a wise conclusion will not be improved by dwelling upon the theories of protection and free trade. This savors too much of bandying epithets. It is a condition which confronts us — not a theory.
Seite 43 - The Republicans of the United States, assembled by their delegates in National Convention, pause on the threshold of their proceedings to honor the memory of their first great leader, the immortal champion of liberty and the rights of the people...
Seite 46 - The government by Congress of the Territories is based upon necessity only to the end that they may become States in the Union ; therefore, whenever the conditions of population, material resources, public intelligence and morality are such as to insure a stable local government therein the people of such Territories should be permitted, as a right inherent in them, the right to form for themselves Constitutions and State Governments and be admitted into the Union.
Seite 62 - The necessary reduction and taxation can and must be effected without depriving American labor of the ability to compete successfully with foreign labor, and without imposing lower rates of duty than will be ample to cover any increased cost of production which may exist in consequence of the higher rate of wages prevailing in this country.
Seite 81 - ... when an abused and irritated people, heedless of those who have resisted timely and reasonable relief, may insist upon a radical and sweeping rectification of their wrongs. The difficulty attending a wise and fair revision of our tariff laws is not underestimated. It will require on the part of...
Seite 61 - Of all the industrious freemen of our land, the immense majority, including every tiller of the soil, gain no advantage from excessive tax laws, but the price of nearly everything they buy is increased by the favoritism of an unequal system of tax legislation. All unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation. It is repugnant to the creed of Democracy that by such taxation the cost of the necessaries of life should be unjustifiably increased to all our people.
Seite 79 - When the number of farmers engaged in wool-raising is compared with all the farmers in the country, and the small proportion they bear to our population is considered ; when it is made apparent that, in the case of a large part of those who own sheep, the benefit of the present tariff on wool is illusory ; and, above all, when it must be conceded that the increase of the cost of living caused by such tariff becomes a burden upon those with moderate means and the poor, the employed and unemployed,...
Seite 64 - ... enters into alliance with such traffic, and becomes the actual foe of the State's welfare ; and that we arraign the Republican and Democratic parties for their persistent attitude in favor of the licensed iniquity, whereby they oppose the demand of the people for prohibition, and, through open complicity with the liquor crime, defeat the enforcement of law.
Seite 53 - Democratic administration reversed the improvident and unwise policy of the Republican party touching the public domain, and reclaimed from corporations and syndicates, alien and domestic, and restored to the people nearly one hundred million acres of valuable land to be sacredly held as homesteads for our citizens...