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...first speaker was Mr. Shattuck, L. S., of the affirmative. He presented the issue of this campaign as tariff reform or the increase of the surplus. The Mills bill reduces the price of the necessities of life by abolishing the duties on raw materials. The Allison bill, on the other hand, merely lowers the internal revenue. The only reduction of duties it makes is that on sugar a sectional measure...
...financial policy which Harison represents is unsound-(a) The tax on whiskey and tobacco should be retained; (b) the tariff on necessaries should be reduced, especially upon raw materials; (c) the Republican tariff bill is sectional, discriminating against the South, is in the interest of capitalists and monopolists, and fosters trusts.- Minority report on Senate tariff bill, Congressional Record...
...continuation of the preliminary contest to select the players who are to go to New Haven October 8 to represent Harvard in the struggle for the intercollegiate team championship tookplace yesterday afternoon on Jarvis field. The day was so raw that none of the men played at their best, and the wind blowing directly across the court hindered to some degree careful placing. In the singles H. Tallant beat Tailer 6-4, 7-5. Tallant accordingly meets Sears for first place...
...opened for the affirmative by Mr. C. M. Thayer, '89. He said: We can see what would result from a reduction of the tariff by taking the wire industry as an example. In this country about ninety per cent. of the cost of production goes to the laborer. The raw material costs about as much as it does abroad. If the tariff is removed wages must fall or the industry cease. Why, it costs but seventeen and a half per cent. more for the needs of life here than in England, while wages are sixty-two and a half...
...There are due to the greater capacity and productive of the laborer. Now, if tariff does not make high wages, a reduction does not make low. If this were so, this is just what the manufacturers would want. The trouble is it would reduce not wages but profits. With raw materials free, the cotton and every trade would be extended and wages would not fall certainly...