The Tariff And The Trusts Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Tariff and the Trusts (Classic Reprint) written by Franklin Pierce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tariff and the Trusts Ligent labor, we have been able to produce most of our highly protected products cheaper than any of our competitors. Prior to 1890 competition among domestic producers reduced the price of commodities considerably below the highest mark of the tariff bar rier but for the last seven years the trusts have sup pressed this competition, and in many cases are now extorting from consumers the prices which prevailed for similar products in the fifties before the discovery of our rich ore fields or the advent of labor-saving machinery and the wonderful development of scientific processes. Taxes for public purposes, when reason able and necessary, are an evil often grievous to be borne by the citizen, but a privilege of excessive taxa tion by private corporations corruptly acquired from government is simply an outrage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.