Word: whiskey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sound basis of government in this Common-wealth. Harvard had always been for the masses and when the old college ceases to be on the side of the common people, then she ceases to support those principles for which she was founded. The Republican Party is not a free whiskey party nor is its tariff principles the favorite one in England. The Mills bill is for free trade while the senate bill is clearly for protection. This crisis is the most important since the war, and whatever is the result of the election, its decision will go on for many...
...more for their country's good. It is to free industry and to check monopoly that this step has been made. They know that Mr. Harrison has examined the Republican platform and finds that it agrees with his convictions. Rather than change it he will take the tax off whiskey and tobacco. The truth is that the Republicans intend to leave the present tariff as it is, or at least to reduce it as little as possible. They are trying to prove that the higher the taxes, the better off the people are. Colonel Codman then introduced Dr. William Everett...
...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...
...been immense, but New York of to-day is but a pigmy when compared with the New York of the next century. We must do something to root out the liquor trade in these great centres, for it is well known that, other things being equal, the sale of whiskey increases faster than population, if that population lives in towns or cities...
...Give an account of the Whiskey Rebellion...