Protection or Free Trade; The Question of the Day. a Collection of the Best Articles on Both Sides of This Great National Issue - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVm. THE TARIFF. By Hon. Justin S. Morbill Of Vermont, In the Senate of the United States, Dec. 8, 1881, on the Bill to establish a Tariff Commission. MR. PRESIDENT: I have brought this subject to the early attention of the Senate because if early legislative action on the tariff is to be had, obviously the measure proposed by Senator Eaton and passed at the last session of the Senate is a wise and indispensable preliminary which cannot be started too soon. The essential information needed concerns important interests, vast in number and overspreading every nook and corner of our country; and when made available by the ingathering and collocation of all the related facts, will secure the earliest attention of Congress, as well as the trust and confidence of the country, and save the appropriate committees of both Houses weeks and months of irksome labors--possibly save them also from some blunders and from final defeat. An enlargement of the free list, essential reductions, and readjustments of rates, are to be fully considered, and some errors of conflicting codifications corrected. If a general revision of the Bible seems to have been called for, it is hardly to be wondered at that some revision of our revenue laws should be invited. But changes in the frame-work of a law that has had more of stability than any other of its kind in our history, and from which an unexampled growth of varied industries has risen up, should be made with much circumspection, after deliberate consideration, by just and friendly hands, and not by ill-informed and reckless revolutionists. When our recent great army was disbanded war taxes were also largely dismissed, and we have now, and certainly shall have hereafter, no unlimited margin for slashing experiments. We c...

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