Word: marketeering
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...prices. Even under a prohibitory tariff there could be no monopoly. Competition would lower prices. We have the resources, the capacity, the honesty to enable us to produce things as cheaply as any nation. But even if prices were higher, it would prove nothing against the tariff. A cheap market to sell in will counter balance a cheap...
...Protection is the expression of national interest in the laborer. The condition of this class did not begin to improve until Protection became our policy, contrary to general belief. Farm laborers received at the most $5 per month, boys $1. The farmers could not pay more; they had no market for their produce because the artisans were in Europe. Butter was 8 cents a pound, and some women in Connecticut went insane when the price rose to 10 cents. The laboring man of the North was worse of than the salve of the South, says one writer...
Many free trade countries levy duties for revenue only. There is much natural protection, articles of bulk cannot be imported on account of the freightage. Farmers derive great benefit from protection by a market being furnished for their produce. They, not the manufacturers, first demand a tariff. We have manufactures because we have a tariff...
...small but active full-back of the blues, gay in sky-blue campaign blouse and skull cap. There was an apparent lack of canvas jackets, but the increasing demand for those articles on account of the late order of the committee on athletics had depleted the home market, and the players had to content themselves with flannel shirts of various hues, to say nothing of old coats...
...bicycle manufacture in this country by the Columbia Bicycle Company has been awarded to the plaintiffs. It says: "The bicycle business is to be given a decided impetus in this country next season. The Overman Wheel Company of Chicopee, Mass., is to put the "Victor" bicycle on the market, and George Warrick, formerly a bicycle builder in London, and a holder of numerous patents, as well as licensee of American patents, proposes to establish a bicycle manufactory near Springfield...