William Jennings Bryan: SelectionsBobbs-Merrill, 1967 - 259 pages |
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Page 17
... duties must be proportioned to international differences in wage rates , and he showed how the tariff was a private tax levied in large measure on rural areas for the benefit of favored industries . The Wilson bill , which cut the ...
... duties must be proportioned to international differences in wage rates , and he showed how the tariff was a private tax levied in large measure on rural areas for the benefit of favored industries . The Wilson bill , which cut the ...
Page 19
... duty is imposed upon those articles which we can produce , and by the aid of such duties we do produce them , there will be no importation , and therefore , no revenue from such duties , however high . This would leave luxuries , the ...
... duty is imposed upon those articles which we can produce , and by the aid of such duties we do produce them , there will be no importation , and therefore , no revenue from such duties , however high . This would leave luxuries , the ...
Page 62
... duty to hold the Philippine Islands . But duty is not an argument ; it is a conclusion . To ascertain what our duty is in any emergency , we must supply well- settled and generally accepted principles . It is our duty to avoid stealing ...
... duty to hold the Philippine Islands . But duty is not an argument ; it is a conclusion . To ascertain what our duty is in any emergency , we must supply well- settled and generally accepted principles . It is our duty to avoid stealing ...
Contents
Introduction | xiii |
Acknowledgments | xlvi |
Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources | liii |
Copyright | |
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