Identifier: politicalhistory00boyd (find matches)
Title: The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
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Publisher: Philadelphia Chicago : P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ion of industries and probable panic; andit should so legislate as not to disturb invested capital or seriouslyaffect the status of labor. The Presidents Message was a brief paper of about 4,500words and a new departure in the way of annual messages. Itmade no allusion to the various matters of interest presented bythe heads of departments in their reports, nor to any measure ofgeneral moment save that branch of finance which concernedtaxation, customs duties and the Treasury surplus. In thisrespect it was a special paper rather than an executive reviewof the entire country, and was apparently called forth by an ex-isting party demand for definite legislative action during thesession of Congress. It indicated a wide departure on the partof the President from the position held by him in former mes-sages, and a seeming conversion to the free-trade doctrines main-tained by a majority of his party. It was a surprise to all ex-cept the initiated, and was much discussed by friends and foes.
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525 526 POLITICAL HISTORY OF The former saw in it a bold, clear statement of the true situation,and they regarded it as a timely declaration of the principles ofDemocracy as they must take shape in the next presidentialcampaign. Indeed it may be truthfully said that the radical free-traders of the party rejoiced over the signal recognition of theirparticular views by the President. On the other hand, the moreconservative element of the party, and especially the Protec-tion, or Revenue Reform, element, headed by Mr. Randall,did not look upon it kindly. They regarded it as an unwisepaper at that juncture, and as containing the seeds of politicaldisaster to the party, while it virtually crushed them as an im-portant minority factor. The Republicans accepted it as athrowing down of the free-trade gauntlet and an invitation tothem to contest the case of Free-trade vs. Protection, both inthe halls of Congress and the coming national campaign. Theycriticised it for its lack of new and convin

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