Word: reductionism
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Considering the general interest in the tariff question, a strangely small audience gathered in Sever 11 last evening to listen to the debate on "Resolved, that a reduction of the tariff would hurt the wage-earner." The discussion was opened for the affirmative by Mr. C. M. Thayer, '89. He...
Mr. Heseltine rejoined that it was a pure assumption to say that wages would fall if tariff were taken off. A tariff is a tax on consumers-laborers and all. At their expense money is now being piled up in the treasury. Protectionists try to show that a tax produces...
Subject: "Resolved, That a reduction of the tariff would hurt the wage-earner."
Subject: "Resolved, That a reduction of the tariff would hurt the wage-earner."
The next of the series of discussions on economic subjects, under the auspices of the Finance Club, will probably be a debate on tariff reform. Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, of Orange, N. J., will speak for a reduction of the tariff, and Mr. J. H. Walker, of Worcester, will defend...