Mr Hurds Free Trade Resolution Classic Reprint

Author : William D. Kelley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330112793
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Hurd's Free Trade Resolution written by William D. Kelley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mr. Hurd's Free Trade Resolution The House being in Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and having under consideration the bill (H.K. No.7099) making appropriations for the Agricultural Department of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, and for other purposes - Mr. Kelley said: Mr. Chairman: On the 6th of December last the gentleman from Ohio introduced and caused to be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means what is now popularly known as the Hurd free-trade resolution. It embodies nine propositions, which the author declares set forth the principles that should regulate any tariff levied by the American Congress. In view of our varied, complex, and expanding industries; of the illimitable store and variety of raw material for m-anufacture with which our country is endowed, vital elements of Avhich are found in every part of our country, and which, by reason of this wide diffusion, necessitate internal traffic, and offer remunerative business to the amplest conceivable systems of internal transportation; of the immense capital, most of which having been created by our productive industries, is now invested in railroads, buildings, and machinery constructed for the transportation and con version of native raw materials into finished commodities; of the constantly increasing millions of people to which these furnish employment at wages so remunerative as to make our home market for the productions of the field and the factory the best market in the world, and to invite an immense annual immigration in view, I say, of all these stupendous facts, the gentleman from Ohio Mr. Hurd in this resolution proposes to declare it to be the duty of Congress to modify our tariff, to which these great interests have adjusted themselves, in accordance with a few abstract propositions which have commended themselves to his judgment. In January, 1870, the Corps Legislatif entered upon an exhaustive discussion of the effect upon French interests of the commercial treatie i between France and other countries. M.Thiers bore a conspicuous part in that controversy. Having in his opening speech presented the protectionist side of the question, from time to time as occasion invited he defended the positions he had assumed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.