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...High protective duties are bad politically.- (a) Cause corruption.- (1) In elections.- (x) Manufacturers spend money to secure favoring protection.- (2) In Congress: A. B. Hart, Forum, XVIII. b. 516.- (y) They induce bribery: Wilson in Bos. Her. Aug. 30, '94.- (y) they induce log-rolling.- (b) Cause sectional hostility...
Best general references: H. M. Hoyt Protection Versus Free Trade 402-414; H. C. Lodge in Forum XIX 12 ff. and in North American Review vol. 159 p. 275 ff.; North American Review 160 p. 385 ff.; Forum IX 659; Political Science Quarterly, VII, 520; Public Opinion XVII...
...Their tariff bill is unstable.- (1) It satisfies no one: North American Review Vol. 160, 385 ff.- (d) The democratic policy excludes the advantages of reciprocity: Nation, 23 August, 1894, p. 132; 30 August, 1894, p. 149; 1 November, 1894, p. 317; Public Opinion, XVII p. 117, Forum...
...Republican party has a more satisfactory financial policy.- (a) It is more strongly against free silver as shown by-(1) The vote on the repeal of the Sherman silver act: Forum, May, 1894; Public Opinion, Nov. 16, 1893.- (2) The Democratic silver convention: Public Opinion, Aug. 22, 1895.- (3) The withdrawal of Senator Jones from the Republican party: Public Opinion 17, p. 563.- (b) Democratic financial management is incompetent.- (1) They have failed to keep up the gold reserve in spite of their bond issues, Forum 19, p. 659-(2) On account of its leaning to free silver Congress...
...Republican party was superior to that of the Democratic party.- (a) The Republican policy was firm and progressive: H. C. Lodge, N. A. Review, 159, p. 271. (1) Shown in our treatment of Chili.- (b) The Democratic policy has been weak.- (1) In Hawaii, H. C. Lodge, Forum XIX, p. 12.- (2) In trying to withdraw from the Samoan treaty, Forum XIX, p. 12. (3) In neglecting the benefits of reciprocity in Canada, Germany, and other lands: Forum XIX, p. 12: Public Opinion, XVII...