Report of a Committee of the Citizens of Boston and Vicinity Opposed to a Further Increase of Duties on ImportationsHenry Lee, Committee of the Citizens of Boston and Vicinity Opposed to a Further Increase of Duties on Importations From the Press of Nathan Hale, 1827 - 196 páginas |
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... materials , and a great- er experience and skill , are enabled to undersell them , notwithstand- ing the protecting charges of 57 per cent which they now enjoy against foreign importations ; and they in consequence , ask for a further ...
... materials , and a great- er experience and skill , are enabled to undersell them , notwithstand- ing the protecting charges of 57 per cent which they now enjoy against foreign importations ; and they in consequence , ask for a further ...
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... material which is used , is foreign . The Providence Memorial , an authority we refer to , because it will be respected by the manufacturers , is more precise , and that we may not be accused of unfairness , we quote their own words ...
... material which is used , is foreign . The Providence Memorial , an authority we refer to , because it will be respected by the manufacturers , is more precise , and that we may not be accused of unfairness , we quote their own words ...
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... above all , as applied to the coarse goods , the decline in the raw material , ( which constitutes 1-3 of their cost ) from 28 and 30 cents , to 10 or 12 cents per pound . The same causes have operated in England , and produced 24.
... above all , as applied to the coarse goods , the decline in the raw material , ( which constitutes 1-3 of their cost ) from 28 and 30 cents , to 10 or 12 cents per pound . The same causes have operated in England , and produced 24.
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... material , as cheap as we have , and can work it , as we have been informed , to much more advan- tage ; while for the better qualities , they do not give more than 7 1-2 per cent , over what the New England manufacturers pay , which ...
... material , as cheap as we have , and can work it , as we have been informed , to much more advan- tage ; while for the better qualities , they do not give more than 7 1-2 per cent , over what the New England manufacturers pay , which ...
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... material within our own country , but it does in fact cost at least half as much to transport it from the cot- ton states , to New England , as it does to Great Britain ; but if it cost even 50 per cent more in England , we have shewn ...
... material within our own country , but it does in fact cost at least half as much to transport it from the cot- ton states , to New England , as it does to Great Britain ; but if it cost even 50 per cent more in England , we have shewn ...
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Report of a Committee of the Citizens of Boston and vicinity, opposed to a ... Visualização integral - 1827 |
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Página 79 - To cultivate peace and maintain commerce and navigation in all their lawful enterprises; to foster our fisheries as nurseries of navigation and for the nurture of man...
Página 40 - Duties of this nature evidently amount to a virtual bounty on the domestic fabrics, since by enhancing the charges on foreign articles they enable the national manufacturers to undersell all their foreign competitors.
Página 79 - Congress have repeatedly, and not without success, directed their attention to the encouragement of manufactures. The object is of too much consequence not to insure a continuance of their efforts in every way which shall appear eligible.
Página 164 - By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness.
Página 40 - ... business very seriously impaired. The effect of charging any of the expenses which related to the business upon the principal of the estate would be a serious impairment of the capital employed in the business, which might, in the end, absorb the same, and thus destroy all income arising therefrom. It is no answer to this view of the subject to say, that under the will the business is only to be conducted so long as, in the opinion of the executors, it shall be to the advantage of the estate...
Página 166 - ... remembered that our shipping employed in foreign commerce has, at this moment, not the shadow of government protection. It goes abroad upon the wide sea to make its own way, and earn its own bread, in a professed competition with the whole world. Its resources are its own frugality, its own skill, its own enterprise. It hopes to succeed, if it shall succeed at all, not by extraordinary aid of government, but by patience, vigilance, and toil. This right arm of the nation's safety strengthens its...
Página 178 - The folly of some of these projects has not been surpassed, nor hardly equalled, unless it be by the philosopher in one of the satires of Swift, who so long labored to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. The poverty and unhappiness of Spain have been attributed to the want of protection to her own industry. If by this it be meant that the poverty of Spain is owing to bad government and bad laws, the remark is, in a great measure, just. But these very laws are bad because they are restrictive, partial,...
Página 166 - Let it be remembered that our shipping employed in foreign commerce, has, at this moment, not the shadow of government protection. It goes abroad upon the wide sea to make its own way, and earn its own bread, in a professed competition with the whole world. Its resources are its own frugality, its own skill, its own enterprise.
Página 86 - We must have patience and longer endurance then with our brethren while under delusion ; give them time for reflection and experience of consequences ; keep ourselves in a situation to profit by the chapter of accidents ; and separate from our companions only, when the sole alternatives left, are the dissolution of our Union with them, or submission to a government without limitation of powers.
Página 180 - ... notice to the other. The radical principle of all commercial intercourse between independent nations is the mutual interest of both parties. It is the vital spirit of trade itself; nor can it be reconciled to the nature of man, or to the primary laws .of human society, that any traffic should long be willingly pursued, of which all the advantages are on one side, and all the burdens on the other. Treaties of commerce have...