The Protective Question Abroad...: And Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Free Trade and Protection1870 |
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... competition , with the work - people of other nations , whose superior advan- tages , more economical and thrifty habits , and a fostering home support , enable them to undersell the English . The dis- tress of the English operatives ...
... competition , with the work - people of other nations , whose superior advan- tages , more economical and thrifty habits , and a fostering home support , enable them to undersell the English . The dis- tress of the English operatives ...
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... compete with their foreign neighbors . A manufacture was springing up in Macclesfield and else- where , called the ... competition was in that department . According to the census of 1861 , the silk trade employed 117,000 persons , and ...
... compete with their foreign neighbors . A manufacture was springing up in Macclesfield and else- where , called the ... competition was in that department . According to the census of 1861 , the silk trade employed 117,000 persons , and ...
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... competition the manufacturers of Germany and France . We had other competitors in supplying the demands of the world at large , and we could scarcely be justified in increasing our mills and machinery at the rate we had done in the past ...
... competition the manufacturers of Germany and France . We had other competitors in supplying the demands of the world at large , and we could scarcely be justified in increasing our mills and machinery at the rate we had done in the past ...
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... competition , which has increased to such an extent that , a few years since , would have been thought fabulous , and no doubt was not anticipated by the most acute politicians a quarter of a century ago . It was then thought , that as ...
... competition , which has increased to such an extent that , a few years since , would have been thought fabulous , and no doubt was not anticipated by the most acute politicians a quarter of a century ago . It was then thought , that as ...
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... competition with English industry . Comparing the present condition of industry with that under the old régime , he says : " Now , on the contrary , in the economic world all is agitation , uncertainty , strife , incessant al ...
... competition with English industry . Comparing the present condition of industry with that under the old régime , he says : " Now , on the contrary , in the economic world all is agitation , uncertainty , strife , incessant al ...
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abroad agricultural American amount association average Belgium Bessemer Bessemer process British free trade bushel capital cassimeres cents per pound cheap cloth coal commerce Commissioner committee compete competition consumers consumption cost cotton crucible steel currency debt demand dollars domestic duction duty Elbeuf employed enabled England English established Europe exhibited exports fabrics facts factures farmers favor foreign France furnaces give gold hundred imported inches increase industry interest labor land Le Creusot legislation less machinery manu manufac means ment merino millions mills Nova Scotia paid paupers pig iron population present production profit prosperity Protectionists protective tariff quantity railroad rails reduced result Russia says sell sheep sheep husbandry silk sophisms South statement steel sumers supply tariff of 1842 thousand tion tons United wages wheat whole wool wool-growers woolen workmen yard York
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Página 16 - 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 superiority of acquired skill and experience.
Página 17 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of the government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares and merchandise imported,
Página 49 - Eight years ago, it was my painful duty to present to the other House of Congress, an unexaggerated picture of the general distress pervading the whole land. We must all yet remember some of its frightful features. We all know that the people were then oppressed and borne down by an enormous load of debt ; that the value of property was at the lowest point of depression ; that ruinous...
Página 76 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Página 5 - That, while providing revenue for the support of the general government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country...
Página 11 - The laboring classes generally, in the manufacturing districts of this country, and especially in the iron and coal districts, are very little aware of the extent to which they are often indebted for their being employed at all to the immense losses which their employers voluntarily incur in bad times, in order to destroy foreign competition, and to gain and keep possession of foreign markets.
Página 71 - Letters to the President, on the Foreign and Domestic Policy of the Union, and its Effects as Exhibited in the Condition of the People and the State (pp.
Página 74 - NOTICE of the situation of such registered office, and of any change therein, shall be given to the registrar, and recorded by him : Until such notice is given the company shall not be deemed to have complied with the provisions of this Act with respect to having a registered office.
Página 75 - No past member shall be liable to contribute in respect of any debt or liability of the company contracted after the time at which he ceased to be a member...
Página 12 - In short, sir, we have been too long subject to the policy of British merchants. It is time we should become a little more AMERICANIZED, and instead of feeding paupers and laborers of England, feed our own; or else, in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall be paupers ourselves.