The Tariff History of the United States: A Series of EssaysG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892 - 422 Seiten |
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Seite 407 - Whether the advantages which one country has over another be natural or acquired, is in this respect of no consequence. As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter rather to buy of the former than to make.
Seite 249 - Reduction in itself was by no means desirable to us ; it was a concession to public sentiment, a bending of the top and branches to the wind of public opinion to save the trunk of the protective system.
Seite 408 - ... natural or acquired, is in this respect of no consequence. As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter rather to buy of the former than to make. It is an acquired advantage only which one artificer has over his neighbor who exercises, another trade; and yet they both find it more advantageous to buy of one another, than to make what does not belong to their particular trades.
Seite 383 - I believe, towards the close of the last century, and the beginning of the present, sent out more living writers, in its proportion, than any other school.
Seite 279 - ... duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable...
Seite 61 - Athough, therefore, the conditions existed under which it is most likely that protection to young' industries may be advantageously applied — a young and undeveloped country in a stage of transition from a purely agricultural to a more diversified industrial condition ; this transition, moreover, coinciding in time with great changes in the arts, which made the establishment of new industries peculiarly difficult — notwithstanding the presence of these conditions, little, if anything, was gained...
Seite 249 - Act of 1883 was summarized as "a half-hearted attempt on the part of those wishing to maintain a system of high protection, to make some concession to a public demand for a more moderate tariff...
Seite 135 - ... before long. Under the lower duties from 1846 to 1860, the charcoal production gradually became a less and less important part of the iron industry, and before the end of the period had been restricted to those limits within which it could find a permanent market for the special qualities of its iron.* On the other hand, the lower duties did not prevent a steady growth in the making of anthracite iron; while the production of railroad iron and of rolled iron in general, also made possible by...