Memoir on the Expediency and Practicability, of Improving Or Creating Home Markets for the Sale of Agricultural Productions and Raw MaterialsJ. R. A. Skerrett, 1827 - 48 páginas |
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... increase of agricultural productions , and to the carrying and exchanging those productions for an unlimited va- riety of foreign manufactures . A very great majority of us have been bred to no other calling , and still remain ignorant ...
... increase of agricultural productions , and to the carrying and exchanging those productions for an unlimited va- riety of foreign manufactures . A very great majority of us have been bred to no other calling , and still remain ignorant ...
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... increase as fast as the welfare of the country requires ; and it is held by the cotton , sugar , and tobacco ... increased ; and if the growers and manufacturers of that article in this country , could have been then defended from the ...
... increase as fast as the welfare of the country requires ; and it is held by the cotton , sugar , and tobacco ... increased ; and if the growers and manufacturers of that article in this country , could have been then defended from the ...
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... increased quantity of foreign articles , still remaining to be imported . For these facts and results , Ander- son's History of Commerce , for the reign of that Queen , is referred to . Although much was done during the reign of that ...
... increased quantity of foreign articles , still remaining to be imported . For these facts and results , Ander- son's History of Commerce , for the reign of that Queen , is referred to . Although much was done during the reign of that ...
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... increased her effective means , until she may well defy competition . She closed a war of twenty years , about the same time that our late war with her terminated . In the course of that time , she raised by taxes , the enormous sum of ...
... increased her effective means , until she may well defy competition . She closed a war of twenty years , about the same time that our late war with her terminated . In the course of that time , she raised by taxes , the enormous sum of ...
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... increased and enlarged , and are still found to go on increasing . She had to grope her way to wealth and eminence , without the aid of the numerous precedents and examples , which , by the history of her rise , and that of other ...
... increased and enlarged , and are still found to go on increasing . She had to grope her way to wealth and eminence , without the aid of the numerous precedents and examples , which , by the history of her rise , and that of other ...
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A Memoir on the Expediency and Practicability of Improving Or Creating Home ... George Tibbits Visualização integral - 1825 |
Memoir on the Expediency and Practicability, of Improving Or Creating Home ... George Tibbits Visualização integral - 1827 |
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adopted agricultural productions amount April 25 arti arts bbls become board of agriculture bounties branch of business bread-stuffs and provisions British capital and labour cents per lb citizens coarse cotton cloths commenced competition congress consume consumption coun cultivation demand dollars duties on imported employed encouragement England English equal established exchange factures farmers farming interest favour Flanders flax flour foreign articles foreign countries foreign manufactures give hauling hemp home manufacture home market Idem imposed increase India landed interest mand manu manufac manufactured articles manufactures and trade means measures nations nearly necessary neral Nova Scotia object opinion population pounds sterling present produce profit prohibited promote proper proportion protecting duties protection of manufactures quantity raised raw materials revenue sheep shipping interest sold South Carolina stock of artizans supply tallow tariff taxes tection thereby THOMAS COOPER tion tivating tobacco vessels wool woollen
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Página 48 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of 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 merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Página 42 - States retained the power of making regulations of trade, they had the power to cherish such institutions. By adopting the present Constitution, they have thrown the exercise of this power into other hands ; they must have done this with an expectation that those interests would not be neglected here.
Página 42 - While these states retained the power of making regulations of trade, they had the power to cherish such institutions. By adopting the present, constitution, they have thrown the exercise of this power into other hands ; they must have done this with an expectation...
Página 39 - Britain at this day, can furnish more profound thinkers on philosophical subjects, more acute and accurate experimenters^ more real philosophers, thrice told, than all Europe could furnish a century ago. I wish that were the case here; but it is not so.
Página 39 - ... surplus capital, however raised and accumulated. The safest, because it requires no navies exclusively for its protection — the least dangerous, because it furnishes no excitement to the prevailing madness of commercial wars — the least expensive, for the same reason that it is the safest and the least dangerous — the least immoral, because it furnishes no temptation to the breach or evasion of the laws, to the multiplication of oaths and perjuries, and to the consequent prostration of...
Página 39 - ... employed in it, by all the ties of habit and of interest, to their own country ; while foreign trade tends to denationalize the affections of those whose property is dispersed in foreign countries, whose interests are connected with foreign interests, whose capital is but partially invested at the place of their domicil, and who can remove with comparative facility from one country to another. The wise man observed of old, that 'where the treasure is, there will the heart be also ;' and time...
Página 38 - By means of debts incurred for foreign manufactures, we are almost again become colonists — we are too much under the influence, indirectly, of British merchants and British agents. We are not an independent people.— Manufactures among us would tend to correct this, and give a stronger tone of nationality at home.
Página 32 - The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the resolution of the House of Representatives, instructing them to inquire if an increase of the duty now established by law, on any article of foreign growth or manufacture, will be for the interest of the agriculturist, and if there be any such article, to name the...
Página 47 - If we consult the history of the ancient world, we shall see that they have thought proper, for a long time past, to give great encouragement to the establishment of manufactures, by laying such partial duties on the importation of foreign goods as to give the home manufactures a considerable advantage in the price when brought to market. It is also well known to...
Página 38 - Our agriculturists want a home market. Manufactures would supply it. Agriculture, at great distances from sea-ports, languishes for want of this. Great Britain exhibits an instance of unexampled power and wealth by means of an agriculture, greatly dependent on a system of manufactures — and her agriculture, thus situated, is the best in the world, though still capable of great improvement.