The lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P Morton . a high civilization. 3. Local centres, wliich manufactures widely spread buildup, are essential to the prosperity and the liappiness of thepeople. 1. The power of association is developed among men bydiversity of industry and local centres, and this power is whatgives to man command over the forces of nature. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 371 4. Domestic manufactures cheapen prices. Dear bouglitand far fetched, is an old and true maxim. 5. The home market is the best market. Under the pre-sent tariff we do not control entirely our home market, weought
The lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P Morton . a high civilization. 3. Local centres, wliich manufactures widely spread buildup, are essential to the prosperity and the liappiness of thepeople. 1. The power of association is developed among men bydiversity of industry and local centres, and this power is whatgives to man command over the forces of nature. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 371 4. Domestic manufactures cheapen prices. Dear bouglitand far fetched, is an old and true maxim. 5. The home market is the best market. Under the pre-sent tariff we do not control entirely our home market, weought to obtain control of that before thinking of the conquestof foreign markets. 6. The reduction of the tariff means a reduction of wagesof American woikmen greater than any possible increase inthe purchasing power of their wages ; and a fall in prices inthis country resulting from tariff and wage reduction, meansthe ruin of the debtor class of the country. 7. The tariff shoiffd be revised by those who understandand believe in the protective Chapter III. THE MILLS BILL, AND THE SURPLUS ANDWHISKEY TAX QUESTIONS. ASCENDANCY OF THE FREE TRADE DEMOCRATS — THE MILLS BILL —ITS PASSAGE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — THE WOOLqUESTION — THREATENED PROSTRATION OF INDUSTRIES — UN-WISE POLICY OF THE COTTON INTEREST MINNESOTA AND THE TARIFF — THE MILLS BILL NOT A MEASURE FOR THE REDUCTIONOF THE SURPLUS — SUGAR TARIFF — TRUSTS — THE REPUBLICANPLAN FOR REDUCING THE SURPLUS — THE WHISKEY TAX. From the day of Grover Clevelands election, the influencein the Democratic party of Mr. Randall and other Democraticprotectionists has been waning, and the ascendancy of , Mr. Morrison, and other free traders has been grow-ing. Speaker Carlisle organized the Ways and Means Com-mittee of the first Congress in Mr. Clevelands administrationin the interest of free trade, and ISIr. Morrison, die chairman,pushed to a vote a bill making a horizontal reduction of twentyper
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