. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. ^^- GEORGE r. EDMUNDS. SAMUEL J. JOHN G. CARLISLE. JOHN J. 106a PROTECTION AND FREE TRADE. commodity that was not cheap
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. ^^- GEORGE r. EDMUNDS. SAMUEL J. JOHN G. CARLISLE. JOHN J. 106a PROTECTION AND FREE TRADE. commodity that was not cheaper in the United States to-dayunder our protective system than it was in i860 under the free-trade, or tariff for revenue only, system. He showed, further,by comparative figures, that nine-tenths of the manufactured com-modities used by the farmers and artisans of our country, suchas clothing, household goods, furniture, implements of husbandry,tools, etc., are as cheap in this country as in England, and inmany instances cheaper. This comes about naturally, for tworeasons, one, at least, of which is often overlooked. (i) A heavy part of any duty imposed on imports is neces-sarily borne by the foreign producer who, in order to enter aprotected market at all, must reduce the price of his goods andsacrifice a part of his usual profit. No one pretends to say thatan English manufacturer of iron, woolens or silks would bill hisgoods to an American importer for as great a price under a hightari
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