Report: to Accompany Bill H.R. 9051, Volumes 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1888 |
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... foreign prices . When business is depressed and foreign prices are abnorrnally low , when foreign competition is most to be dreaded , and when a defensive barrier is most needed by domestic producers , then ad valorem rates are lowest ...
... foreign prices . When business is depressed and foreign prices are abnorrnally low , when foreign competition is most to be dreaded , and when a defensive barrier is most needed by domestic producers , then ad valorem rates are lowest ...
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... foreign price , this would involve , as we have shown , a reduction of the earnings of operatives and mechanics to the foreign level , and the consequent reduction of their ability to purchase farm products from the domestic supply . An ...
... foreign price , this would involve , as we have shown , a reduction of the earnings of operatives and mechanics to the foreign level , and the consequent reduction of their ability to purchase farm products from the domestic supply . An ...
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... foreign values and of the changes which have taken place from year to year in the foreign prices upon which ad - valorem duties are levied we have taken the well - known index numbers of the London Economist . These tables , prepared ...
... foreign values and of the changes which have taken place from year to year in the foreign prices upon which ad - valorem duties are levied we have taken the well - known index numbers of the London Economist . These tables , prepared ...
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... foreign purchases , and the much less time required for the delivery of the goods purchased ; and ( 3 ) the greatly reduced cost of transatlantic transportation . A striking example of the effects of cheapened trans- portation was ...
... foreign purchases , and the much less time required for the delivery of the goods purchased ; and ( 3 ) the greatly reduced cost of transatlantic transportation . A striking example of the effects of cheapened trans- portation was ...
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... foreign market over these tax - laden roads and in foreign ships ; and when these foreign markets are reached , these products must compete with the pauper products of the cheapest labor to be found anywhere under the sun . The House ...
... foreign market over these tax - laden roads and in foreign ships ; and when these foreign markets are reached , these products must compete with the pauper products of the cheapest labor to be found anywhere under the sun . The House ...
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Page 127 - Cloaks, dolmans, jackets, talmas, ulsters, or other outside garments for ladies' and children's apparel and goods of similar description, or used for like purposes...
Page 140 - To lay with one hand the power of the Government on the property of the citizen and with the other to bestow It upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation.
Page 140 - If it be said that a benefit results to the local public of a town by establishing manufactures, the same may be said of any other business or pursuit which employs capital or labor. The merchant, the mechanic, the innkeeper, the banker, the builder, the steamboat owner are equally promoters of the public good, and equally deserving the aid of the citizens by forced contributions. No line can be drawn in favor of the manufacturer which would not open the coffers of the public treasury to the importunities...
Page 345 - ... made of silk, or of which silk is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, and silk goods ornamented with beads or spangles, of whatever material composed, sixty per centum ad valorem...
Page 126 - And provided further, That no article made from iron or steel wire, or of which iron or steel wire is a component part of chief value, shall pay a less rate of duty than the iron or steel wire from which it is made...
Page 56 - ... resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects, any of the foregoing...
Page 143 - Our labor has earned it, and paid the price for it. It is so much added to the stock of national wealth. If the commodity were dollars, nobody would doubt the truth of this remark; and it is precisely as correct in its application to any other commodity as to silver.
Page 63 - That imported salt in bond may be used in curing fish taken by vessels licensed to engage in the fisheries, and in curing fish on the shores of the navigable waters of the United States...
Page 58 - ... old copper, fit only for remanufacture, clippings from new copper, and all composition metal of which copper is a component material of chief value not specially enumerated or provided for in this act...
Page 62 - Hair, human, bracelets, braids, chains, rings, curls, and ringlets, composed of hair, or of which hair is the component material of chief value, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem.