 We denounce Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the federal government has no constitutional power...  Republican Campaign Text Book, 1894 - Page 212by Republican Congressional Committee - 1894 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1927 - 910 pages
...compromise plank, by the vote of 564 to 342, the declaration that the protective tariff was"a fraud"and "a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few, " and that it was "a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal government has... | |
 | Book collecting - 1905 - 930 pages
...Democratic convention had ever ventured to put forth. It began : "We denounce Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has... | |
 | Protectionism - 1917 - 824 pages
...operations. The platform of 1892 is more outspoken. It declared: We denounce Republican protection as a fraud — a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has... | |
 | Judith Goldstein - Business & Economics - 1993 - 290 pages
...1892, in a 564 to 342 vote, did the Democratic convention renounce this position, instead stating:53 "Republican protection [is] a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people . . . the federal government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except... | |
 | John Gerring - Philosophy - 2001 - 354 pages
...self-perpetuating oligarchy of office-holders." The platform charged that Republican protectionist policies were "a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few," qualifying, therefore, as a piece of "class legislation" (Johnson 1958: 86-87). I n terms even more... | |
 | Hambleton Tapp, James C. Klotter - History - 1977 - 584 pages
...revenue only, declaring anything more to be unconstitutional and denouncing Republican protection as "a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few." He carried the convention 564 to 342. Thus ruling the day once more with his "Star-eyed Goddess," as... | |
 | United States - 1911 - 1328 pages
...immediately followed one denouncing protection, in this language: We denounce Republican protection as a fraud — a robbery of the great majority of the American people for tbe benefit of the few. The Democratic national platform of 1904 rends about the same. Thus: We denounce... | |
 | 1892 - 638 pages
...convention. It is contained in these words : "We denounce the Republican Protection as a fraud upon the labor of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of a few. We declare it a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has... | |
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