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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1883
Page
1
A dense editorial compares tariff to a tax and argues against protective duties calling them restrictive. It discusses revenue versus protection, high license temperance policy, and cites examples from Aurora Joliet and Rockford. The piece critiques Judge Kelley’s anti tariff stance and highlights 1873 panic context and industrial distress.
In recent charter elections across Illinois cities towns and villages the main issue was temperance with voters split into three groups extreme temperance no license license and high license. The result favored license in several cases while defeating no license, warning that prohibition often leads to unlicensed liquor and its abuses.
The Chicago Tribune reports Judge Kelley of Pennsylvania was feted in Philadelphia on his sixty ninth birthday with a dinner hosted by Philadelphia manufacturers and notable friends. He credited high tariffs since 1840s with enabling U.S. manufacturing and agriculture, calling the Civil War a northern strike against free trade and asserting 1860s prosperity required tariffs despite wartime strain.
In a Lawrence Journal excerpt from H. Caxveip, the author warns that British and continental demand for U S breadstuffs could press America to lower costs and risk losing markets. India Australia Canada and Russia loom as rising rivals as tariff protection strains farmers who fear loss of home markets and wealth. Palmer Griffin ad follows.
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