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Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): entry morrill-justin-smith
1810- Legislator; born in Strafford, Vt., April 14, 1810; received an academic education: engaged in mercantile business till 1848, then became interested in agriculture. He entered the national House of Representatives as a Republican in 1855, and served there till March 4, 1867, when he was transferred to the Senate, where he had the longest unbroken term in the history of that body. For this reason he became popularly known as the Father of the Senate. He opposed the admission of Kansas as a slave State in 1855; introduced the tariff bill known by his name in 1861; and was a member of the Senate committee on finance from 1867 till his death in Washington, D. C., Dec. 28, 1898. Justin Smith Morrill. Taking an active part in all the debates relating to the tariff and to coinage, his most notable speech was that in which he opposed the remonetization of silver (see below) on Jan. 28, 1878. The remonetization of silver. Mr. President,—The bill now before the Senate p
Washington (United States) (search for this): entry morrill-justin-smith
He entered the national House of Representatives as a Republican in 1855, and served there till March 4, 1867, when he was transferred to the Senate, where he had the longest unbroken term in the history of that body. For this reason he became popularly known as the Father of the Senate. He opposed the admission of Kansas as a slave State in 1855; introduced the tariff bill known by his name in 1861; and was a member of the Senate committee on finance from 1867 till his death in Washington, D. C., Dec. 28, 1898. Justin Smith Morrill. Taking an active part in all the debates relating to the tariff and to coinage, his most notable speech was that in which he opposed the remonetization of silver (see below) on Jan. 28, 1878. The remonetization of silver. Mr. President,—The bill now before the Senate provides for the resuscitation of the obsolete dollar of 412 1/2 grains of silver, which Congress entombed in 1834 by an act which diminished the weight of gold coins to the
Australia (Australia) (search for this): entry morrill-justin-smith
n the other; wool as well as cloth. All of our people are now free to labor where they choose, where they can earn the most and receive the highest reward; and the man who to-day works on the farm may to-morrow, if he pleases, find employment in the mine, mill, or factory, and obtain the customary wages awarded to like skill and service. Protection turns out not merely good work, but the best. Local competition always pushes the best to the front. American locomotives are received in Australia, New Zealand, South America, and elsewhere, as equal to any in the world, and as cheap. Some British manufacturers and traders stamp their cotton goods with American trade-marks, because similar American goods, wherever known, fetch the highest price. Housefurnishing and saddlery, hardware, locks, joiners' tools, watches, silverware, jewelry, paper of all kinds, and many other articles of American manufacture are often both superior to and cheaper than similar articles produced abroad.
Russia (Russia) (search for this): entry morrill-justin-smith
We must make the market we do not and cannot elsewhere find. We have found that often less has been obtained for a very large export of cotton than for a medium or smaller one, showing that an excessive crop pays the least profit. Some of our Western States have also found the largest crop of corn most valuable as their cheapest fuel, and the wheat crop in some of our Territories, like that of the apple elsewhere, when very large, pays little more than for the harvesting. Beyond this, Russia, Egypt, India, and other countries leave us to supply only a pitiful share of any deficiency of European food crops, and that at the minimum prices. South America, and our great American desert, improved by irrigation, may also soon prove the marvels of the age in the production of food crops. An increase of the supply from any quarter would instantly depress foreign prices, leaving for American exports losses instead of profits; and our farming interests, with increased crops and withou
New Zealand (New Zealand) (search for this): entry morrill-justin-smith
wool as well as cloth. All of our people are now free to labor where they choose, where they can earn the most and receive the highest reward; and the man who to-day works on the farm may to-morrow, if he pleases, find employment in the mine, mill, or factory, and obtain the customary wages awarded to like skill and service. Protection turns out not merely good work, but the best. Local competition always pushes the best to the front. American locomotives are received in Australia, New Zealand, South America, and elsewhere, as equal to any in the world, and as cheap. Some British manufacturers and traders stamp their cotton goods with American trade-marks, because similar American goods, wherever known, fetch the highest price. Housefurnishing and saddlery, hardware, locks, joiners' tools, watches, silverware, jewelry, paper of all kinds, and many other articles of American manufacture are often both superior to and cheaper than similar articles produced abroad. Our agricult
America (Netherlands) (search for this): entry morrill-justin-smith
does not insist that wages are not higher in America under protection than in Great Britain under the holdings of farmers, in every locality of America where such proximity exists, can readily be s the price abroad and at home. Free-trade in America would cripple, perhaps ruin, both agriculturets, wool, and woollen goods of the produce of America was also wholly prohibited. We have changed ny capacity to wrest it from us, except it be America; that, if America shall frankly adopt and steit be enough for two, or for both England and America? Of course Mr. Gladstone is sincere. He iis own country. He sees that free-trade with America would offer a prodigious market for British ith more chapters of glory than of shame, and America is now more firmly and tenderly attached to hinence. But when we match them with those of America, it is Lilliput against Brobdingnag. Yet in ticious than England can count upon. And that America marks the highest level, not only of material[10 more...]
United States (United States) (search for this): entry morrill-justin-smith
s to be postponed indefinitely. For years United States notes have been slowly climbing upward, buen he said: There is an option left to the United States whether they will be respectable and prospary sense of profit, the government of the United States could not be the gainer by proposing to paa personal grief to Mr. Gladstone that the United States should be unwilling to accept the beatitud, as it need not be, why, then, should the United States wish to revolutionize and change its posit From 1867 to 1888 there were made in the United States 15,803,011 tons of steel rails, and 1,256,an American to point to the fact that the United States since 1860, notwithstanding the boundless —almost three and a half times that of the United States. Revenue for the support of government and has devoted years to the study of the United States and its people, visiting every State of th surpassed, perhaps none has equalled, the United States. （Page 579.) Mr. Bryce concludes his g[9 more...]<
Turquie (Turkey) (search for this): entry morrill-justin-smith
th not. If we would not multiply examples of individual financial turpitude, already painfully numerous, we must not trample out conscience and sound morality from the monetary affairs of the nation. The option about which we should be most solicitous was definitely expressed by Washington when he said: There is an option left to the United States whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a nation. Our national self-respect will not be increased when Turkey, as a debtpaying nation, shall be held as our equal and Mexico as our superior. The credit of a great nation cannot even be discussed without some loss; it cannot even be tempted by the devious advantages of legal technicalities without bringing some sense of shame; but to live, it must go, like chastity, unchallenged and unsuspected. . . . The argument relied upon in favor of a bimetallic standard as against a monometallic seems to be that a single-metal standard leaves out one-half of
Scotia (search for this): entry morrill-justin-smith
l virtues be left unprotected and without legislation. As well leave all individuals without the help of education as to leave the nation without such help. It is nothing less than the old fallacy, Shoot without taking aim, and you will be sure to hit the mark. Can any friend of Ireland, for instance, after years of close contact with a great free-trade kingdom, and with two-thirds of its productive area abandoned to permanent pasture, believe that the free-trade policy has been best for Ireland? The sublime virtue of having no prejudices in favor of their own country does not seem to have taken root in that part of the United Kingdom. Mr. Gladstone claims that other nations, and above all others the United States, have derived immense benefits through British free-trade legislation. If this should be admitted, as it need not be, why, then, should the United States wish to revolutionize and change its position by a change of its revenue policy? But he says, We (Great Britai
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry morrill-justin-smith
nd their virtuous example. Few outside of Great Britain will care to dispute that free-trade may na multitude of potential reasons why wages in England have become both generally and absolutely higection against all theories. Workmen in Great Britain, when out of employment, are said to have higher in America under protection than in Great Britain under free-trade, it would seem superfluoune, how can it be enough for two, or for both England and America? Of course Mr. Gladstone is silevel of those now so greatly depressed in Great Britain. Again, if, as suggested, we were no long $1,063,004,894, while in 1888 the debt of Great Britain, with about half as much population, was £es not thrust its industrial theories upon Great Britain, and will be happy whether protection or fpower and American fraternity. In Europe, Great Britain, if not misrepresented, has no allies, andmanufactures than are annually produced by Great Britain herself, and sink all ambitions for the pr[22 more...]
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