Tariff Reform

In all this there was a great deal of Dalloway, of course; a great deal of the public-spirited, British Empire, tariff-reform, governing-class spirit, which had grown on her, as it tends to do. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There was, as has been shown, a strong tariff-reform element, and in some of the conventions care seems to have been taken to avoid any definite statement of principles -- doubtless on account of the well-known differences in the party -- and for many years there was no clearly defined statement of the attitude of the organization. ❋ Charles Ramsdell Lingley (N/A)

Washington to assist the party leaders in putting through a difficult tariff-reform bill which all the protected interests were fighting. ❋ David Graham Phillips (1889)

He made a distinct move toward a reduction of the tariff, and while this failed, leaving us with the reactionary result of higher duties than ever before, it is not impossible that the words, actions, and sacrifices of Cleveland will be the foundation of a new tariff-reform party. ❋ James Ford Rhodes (1887)

It was by the principles of free trade that Peel and his lieutenant justified tariff-reform; and they indirectly sapped protection in general by dwelling on the mischiefs of minor forms of protection in particular. ❋ John Morley (1880)

Having for the moment no free-trade, or protectionist, or tariff-reform axe to grind, and having tested the pudding not by my prejudices but my palate, and having eaten a fifteen-pfennig luncheon in the street, and climbed step by step the gastronomical stairway in Germany all the way up to a supper at the court, where eight hundred odd people were served with a care and celerity, and with hot viands and irreproachable potables, that made one think of the "Arabian Nights," I offer my experience and my opinion with some confidence. ❋ Price Collier (1886)

"tariff-reform" by David A. Wells, a painstaking and able student of economic conditions who was appointed special commissioner of the revenue in 1866. ❋ Charles Ramsdell Lingley (N/A)

Here are some interesting figures as to what the poorer class eat in this tariff-reform paradise of Chemnitz. " ❋ Frank Dilnot (N/A)