1
There is general acquiescence in our present tariff system as a national policy.
2
The present tariff law has accomplished its two main objects.
3
The present tariff system is in many respects unjust.
4
I can not, therefore, recommend to you any alteration in the present tariff of duties.
5
What is the origin of the present tariff system?
6
In other words, the principle of the present tariff law could not with wisdom be changed.
7
The satisfactory working of the present tariff law has been chiefly responsible for this excellent showing.
8
The effects of the present tariff are doubtless over-rated, both in its evils and in its advantages.
9
I therefore oppose the present tariff, and the whole doctrine by which it is attempted to be justified.
10
The difficulties of a more expedient adjustment of the present tariff, although great, are far from being insurmountable.
11
If the present tariff does not do it, then I am in favor of changing to one that will.
12
The present tariff of duties was somewhat hastily and hurriedly passed near the close of the late session of Congress.
13
When the present tariff was first levied it was defended as a temporary expedient only, required as a necessity by war.
14
The present tariff rates supply the National Treasury with well over $600,000,000 of annual revenue.
15
But our present tariff laws, the vicious, inequitable, and illogical source of unnecessary taxation, ought to be at once revised and amended.
16
The present tariff imposes duties upon nearly four thousand articles, and was levied and is defended upon the ground that American industries should be protected.
