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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Once Again Remembering GOP Pres. William McKinley Promoting Tariffs & Fighting Free Trade, circa 1899 (he was assassinated)

(Commentary Posted by Roger Erickson)


Was the GOP once logical & forward thinking? Or did they always practice class-based opportunism, regardless of how contexts changed? "Open" Trade to loot other populations then, and to loot our own Middle Class today?
"Under Free Trade the Trader is the Master and the Producer the Slave."
President William McKinley (un-verified quote, so far)
“[W]hether a thing is cheap or dear depends upon what we can earn by our daily labor. Free trade cheapens the product by cheapening the producer. Protection cheapens the product by elevating the producer. Under free trade the trader is the master and the producer the slave. Protection is but the law of nature, the law of self-preservation, of self-development, of securing the highest and best destiny of the race of man.”
You know, we actually did have more intelligent, forthright & honest Presidents once upon a time.

Courageous too.

Hat Hat tip to: ‏@ZaRdOz420WPN & the TaxWallStreetParty


 Educate Yourself - The Trade Policy of William McKinley

 The [Old] American System vs. British Free Trade Looting

 William McKinley bio

 William McKinley Quotes

When was the last time all these issues were sanely discussed in national media presentations?  I liked this McKinley quote most of all:

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1 comment:

  1. Matt FrankoApril 13, 2014 at 8:53 AM

    "The 25th President of the United States, William McKinley, was shot and fatally wounded on September 6, 1901, inside the Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley was shaking hands with the public when he was shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist."

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