Life and Distinguished Services of Hon. Wm. McKinley and the Great Issues of 1896: Containing Also a Sketch of the Life of Garret A. HobartEdgewood Publishing Company, 1896 - 501 pages |
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... Committee , and he entered upon the duties incident to that position with great energy and intel- ligence . There was a necessity and a well - defined public demand for tariff legislation in that Congress . The Republican party had come ...
... Committee , and he entered upon the duties incident to that position with great energy and intel- ligence . There was a necessity and a well - defined public demand for tariff legislation in that Congress . The Republican party had come ...
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... Committee . But it is fair to say that Mc- Kinley mastered the whole subject in Congress in detail . He has made the subject of protective tariff a life study . Born and reared within the sounds of the rolling mill , and beneath the ...
... Committee . But it is fair to say that Mc- Kinley mastered the whole subject in Congress in detail . He has made the subject of protective tariff a life study . Born and reared within the sounds of the rolling mill , and beneath the ...
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... Committee then , for General Garfield repre- sented Ohio on that committee at that time . Few remember the Wood tariff bill of 1878 - a bill in- tended to scale down revenue . McKinley saw that it was a blow to the protective system ...
... Committee then , for General Garfield repre- sented Ohio on that committee at that time . Few remember the Wood tariff bill of 1878 - a bill in- tended to scale down revenue . McKinley saw that it was a blow to the protective system ...
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... When General Garfield retired from Congress , to assume the ill - fated Presidency , Major McKinley was his successor on the Ways and Means Committee . Older members of that brainy set of men were glad 60 AND THE GREAT ISSUES OF '96 .
... When General Garfield retired from Congress , to assume the ill - fated Presidency , Major McKinley was his successor on the Ways and Means Committee . Older members of that brainy set of men were glad 60 AND THE GREAT ISSUES OF '96 .
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... Committee , he urged that the Tariff Commission be appointed , and made an able speech in its support . The results of that Commission are known . McKin- ley was one of those who helped frame the tariff bill of 1883 , which was in force ...
... Committee , he urged that the Tariff Commission be appointed , and made an able speech in its support . The results of that Commission are known . McKin- ley was one of those who helped frame the tariff bill of 1883 , which was in force ...
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Page 306 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 306 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Page 378 - OUR fathers' God ! from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand, We meet to-day, united, free, And loyal to our land and Thee, To thank Thee for the era done, And trust Thee for the opening one.
Page 306 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain.
Page 145 - Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Page 146 - We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant, wiser; and all better, and happier together.
Page 381 - American policy of discriminating duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships — the product of American labor, employed in American shipyards, sailing under the stars and stripes, and manned, officered, and owned by Americans — may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce.
Page 379 - ... in time of peace, forced an adverse balance of trade, kept a perpetual menace hanging over the redemption fund, pawned American credit to alien syndicates, and reversed all the measures and results of successful Republican rule. In the broad effect of its policy it has precipitated panic, blighted industry and trade with prolonged depression, closed factories, reduced work and wages, halted enterprise, and crippled American production while stimulating foreign production for the American market.
Page 382 - Our foreign policy should be at all times firm, vigorous, and dignified, and all our interests in the Western Hemisphere carefully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian Islands should be controlled by the United States, and no foreign power should be permitted to interfere with them...
Page 173 - ... the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio, or such ratio as may be provided by law.