"Protective tariff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... meantime, John M. Clayton had made use of the fears of Calhoun and his nullifiers, who were menaced with the penalties of treason by the president, to pass a great protective tariff bill by their aid, thus establishing the manufactures in the ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend
... self-government which falls but little short of entire independence. In fact, commercially they are independent, for, as we have seen (S616), while England maintains free trade, her colonies still keep up a strict protective tariff and impose duties even on British imports. Notwithstanding this difference, all the colonies are loyal subjects of the English Crown, and all stand ready to defend ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery
... 1. On account of the protective tariff, we pay | None. more for our own bread, meat, sugar, thread, | etc., which is equivalent to a considerable | 1. We have examined diminution of our wages. | the question in | every light, and 2. On account of the protective tariff, our patrons | have been unable to are also ...
— Sophisms of the Protectionists • Frederic Bastiat
... power of the United States defies and sets at naught the grave drawbacks of a mischievous protective tariff, and has already obliterated, almost wholly, the traces of the greatest of modern civil wars. What is especially remarkable in the present development of American energy and success is its wide and equable distribution. North and south, east and west, on the shores ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman
... life to the interest and welfare of the husbandman, which also means the government. For the government to become a monopolist of any important branch in agriculture is not in harmony with the principles of our republican-democratic form of government. While advocating a protective tariff against outside depreciation of home industries, our government should not in any way approach monarchical intrusion upon the industries of its husbandmen. Our government cannot afford to make its agriculturists competitors in so important a matter to them (the farmers) as in ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 • Various
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