Free Trade Vs. ProtectionA. C. McClurg & Company, 1913 - 297 стор. |
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Сторінка ix
... protectionists gradually took the initiative and soon became ag- gressive , dominant , and domineering ; and such is their attitude now . It is an attitude of lordly supe- riority , of aggressive assertion of claims ever rising in the ...
... protectionists gradually took the initiative and soon became ag- gressive , dominant , and domineering ; and such is their attitude now . It is an attitude of lordly supe- riority , of aggressive assertion of claims ever rising in the ...
Сторінка x
... protectionists have suc- ceeded in obscuring its true meaning , as well as the meekness and want of self - assertion with which free traders have calmly submitted to this obscuration . I think , further , the time has come when free ...
... protectionists have suc- ceeded in obscuring its true meaning , as well as the meekness and want of self - assertion with which free traders have calmly submitted to this obscuration . I think , further , the time has come when free ...
Сторінка xi
... protection- ists perversely insist upon misusing the term and many persons who are not protectionists are so hazy in their understanding of what free trade is , that I am obliged to say over and over again that by free trade , I mean a ...
... protection- ists perversely insist upon misusing the term and many persons who are not protectionists are so hazy in their understanding of what free trade is , that I am obliged to say over and over again that by free trade , I mean a ...
Сторінка xii
... protectionists will speak of England as a free trade country — and will ask you if , being a free trader , you intend to abolish all custom houses ! For their kindness in permitting me to use extracts from the undermentioned books , my ...
... protectionists will speak of England as a free trade country — and will ask you if , being a free trader , you intend to abolish all custom houses ! For their kindness in permitting me to use extracts from the undermentioned books , my ...
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... protectionists in the United States that it is an American system . Tarifa was a town and a castle , about twenty miles from Gibraltar , where Moorish pirates exacted tribute from passing vessels for about eight centuries during the ...
... protectionists in the United States that it is an American system . Tarifa was a town and a castle , about twenty miles from Gibraltar , where Moorish pirates exacted tribute from passing vessels for about eight centuries during the ...
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Сторінка 203 - The only case in which, on mere principles of 'political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country. The superiority of one country over another in a branch of production, often arises only from having begun it sooner. There may be no inherent advantage on one part, or disadvantage on the other, but only a present...
Сторінка 204 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the burden of carrying it on until the producers have been educated up to the level of those with whom the processes are traditional. A protecting duty, continued for a reasonable time, might sometimes be the least inconvenient mode in which the nation can tax itself for the support of such an experiment.
Сторінка 257 - Those who take an enlarged view of the condition of our country must be satisfied that the policy of protection must be ultimately limited to those articles of domestic manufacture which are indispensable to our safety in time of war.
Сторінка 120 - Divide the floaters into blocks of five and put a trusted man with the necessary funds in charge of these five, and make him responsible that none get away, and that all vote our ticket.
Сторінка 36 - ... foster that which presents a favorable balance. However the account be made up, whatever may be the items of a trade, commodities, fishing industry, marine labor, the carrying trade, all of which I admit should be comprehended, there can be no doubt, I think, that the totality of the exchanges of all descriptions, made by one nation with another, or against the totality of the exchanges of all other nations together, may be such as to present the state of an unfavorable balance with the one or...
Сторінка 37 - I believe it was when we were settling the controversy between the oil merchants and the tallow-chandlers — the balance of trade made its appearance in debate, and I must confess, sir, that I spoke of it, or rather spoke to it, somewhat freely and irreverently. I believe I used the hard names which have been imputed to me ; and I did it simply for the purpose of laying the spectre and driving it back to its tomb. Certainly, sir, when I called the old notion on this subject nonsense, I did not suppose...
Сторінка 150 - Congress shall have power to levy and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States, but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
Сторінка 99 - X. That as the profits of the trade of these colonies ultimately center in Great Britain, to pay for the manufactures which they are obliged to take from thence, they eventually contribute very largely to all supplies granted there to the crown. XI. That the restrictions imposed by several late acts of Parliament on the trade of these colonies, will render them unable to purchase the manufactures of Great Britain.
Сторінка 93 - In general I would only observe that commerce, consisting in a mutual exchange of the necessaries and conveniences of life, the more free and unrestrained it is, the more it flourishes; and the happier are all the nations concerned in it.
Сторінка x - I think there has never been a time in the history of the country when the country felt more implicit in the honesty of purpose of the men in Congress than they do to-day.