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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... free trade , which he has been fighting ever since . He secured recognition in April of 1878 , and addressed the House at length . His speech is very interesting reading now , and surprises even those who are informed of his ability ...
... free trade , which he has been fighting ever since . He secured recognition in April of 1878 , and addressed the House at length . His speech is very interesting reading now , and surprises even those who are informed of his ability ...
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... free - trade ideas meant destruc- tion if put in force . The experience of the country under the present tariff reform measure , which Mr. Cleveland himself said was tinged with party perfidy and party dishonor , show conclusively that ...
... free - trade ideas meant destruc- tion if put in force . The experience of the country under the present tariff reform measure , which Mr. Cleveland himself said was tinged with party perfidy and party dishonor , show conclusively that ...
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... free trade , the menace of reduced duties , with energy . He battled in vain , because the Democracy was in the majority in the House , but his speeches , his arguments , his figures , his logic , added to his great reputation . In this ...
... free trade , the menace of reduced duties , with energy . He battled in vain , because the Democracy was in the majority in the House , but his speeches , his arguments , his figures , his logic , added to his great reputation . In this ...
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... free trade — the ex- periment with a lower tariff that seemed inevitable . The Morrison bill proposed to reduce the duties in the Act of March 3d , 1883 , by twenty per cent . This was the bill at which the Democrats had laughed because ...
... free trade — the ex- periment with a lower tariff that seemed inevitable . The Morrison bill proposed to reduce the duties in the Act of March 3d , 1883 , by twenty per cent . This was the bill at which the Democrats had laughed because ...
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... free - trade bill . There was no horizontal re- duction about it . It was plain free trade . Mills He came from Texas , a State without industries . 72 LIFE OF WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
... free - trade bill . There was no horizontal re- duction about it . It was plain free trade . Mills He came from Texas , a State without industries . 72 LIFE OF WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
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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.