Again, there should be no sort of conflict between ultra bird protectionists and legitimate scientific ornithology.
It makes one feel that the song bird protectionists must often "pass by on the other side," not having the honesty of their convictions in as militant a degree as the sportsmen, even when they have the law to back the bird.
Let us hear the Thunderer on the subject of these same metropolitan constituencies, just twelve months ago, before Scarborough and Knaresborough had disgraced themselves by returning Protectionists to Parliament.
In combating, by arguments and illustrations adapted to the comprehension of the mass of mankind, the errors and sophisms with which protectionists deceive themselves and others, M.
Whenever the protectionists desire, they will find me ready to examine the sophisms of the ricochets, which, indeed, may be invoked in support of all species of robbery and fraud.
The protectionists do not fail to exclaim: "It is this cursed freedom which does all the mischief.
Bastiat not only enlivens a dull subject with his wit, but also reduces the propositions of the Protectioniststo absurdities.
There are one or two arguments current among the protectionists of the United States that were not rife in France when Bastiat wrote his Sophismes.
In order to produce high prices the protectionists have obtained high tariffs, and still low prices have come to disappoint their expectations.
Robinson lost sight of it, and our protectionists do not see it, or pretend not to.
There is scarcely an argument current among the protectionists of the United States that was not current in France at the time Bastiat wrote the Sophismes Economiques.
Mr. Roebuck's motion of confidence in the Ministry was carried, but this success was largely due to the fact that a coalition between the Peelites and the Protectionists seemed impossible.
Lastly, for power to meet all these emergencies Lord John was dependent, at every juncture, upon the animosity between the Protectionists and Peelites proving stronger than the dislike which either party felt for the Government.
Feeling on both sides of the House was against Lord Grey; for both Free Traders and Protectioniststhought that Repeal ought to have come from the Whigs, and that it was Lord Grey who had made this impossible.
They were in power only because the Protectionists had chosen to send Peel about his business, and the Irish problem was growing more and more acute.
These two propositions, taken together, demonstrate beyond a cavil the motives of the protectionists as a class.
Have not American protectionists shut out French and German products 100:1 under the same plea now used on the Continent?
Now, Protectionists have had the effrontery (largely the result of ignorance) to contend, that they are at a disadvantage as employers of laborers on account of the rates of Wages they are obliged to pay to them!
The Protectionists do not propose to imitate the example of Sir James Graham and his friends, by perverting the House of Commons against the will of the constituencies.
Very absurd indeed is the accusation, that the Protectionists will not allow fair play to the progress of the experiment.
But the Democratic protectionists were forced into surly acquiescence so long as Cleveland was the candidate and William L.
Congress was divided upon the theory of protection, both parties including high protectionists as well as tariff-for-revenue men.
In the tariff debates of 1883 and later a group of Southern protectionists made common cause with Northern Republicans.
But in 1890 most protectionists inclined toward absolute exclusion, regardless of foreign relations, and were ready to raise the rate whenever the imports were large.
Throughout the tariff debate no argument had been used more steadily than that of the protectionists that protection to labor was their aim.
That is an ideal which both Free Traders and Protectionists may very reasonably seek to attain.
He thus saw the prospect of the expenditure of millions of national money upon internal improvements in order to relieve the protectionists of the embarrassment of a great surplus, and denounced it.
The protectionists were answered, and many of them won over, by the argument that the Verplanck bill would pass if they did not accept Mr. Clay's bill.
This meant that the protectionists were very {178} willing to free those articles from duty which did not come into competition with home productions, in order to preserve and increase the duties on those that did.
The protectionists were satisfied by this, but Mr. Calhoun immediately declared that South Carolina would not accept the bill with this change.
I leave it to the protectionists to draw the inference.
Had I intended to raise a controversy, I should have asked the protectionists why they direct their tariffs chiefly against England and Belgium, the most heavily taxed countries in the world?
If we saw in a product nothing more than an opportunity of bestowing labour, the alarms of the protectionists would undoubtedly be well-founded.
If protectionists had on their side sufficient logic and power, they would reduce men, like snails, to a state of absolute isolation.
Well, then, were it only for curiosity, I entreat the gentlemen protectionists to follow me on to the conclusion of my argument.
Robinson lost sight of this, and our protectionists either do not see it, or pretend not to see it.
When the confusion of ideas thence arising had reached its height, the protectionists began saying to their adversaries, "It is our system which brings about the cheapness of which you boast so much.
The protectionists exclaim: It is this accursed free-trade which does all the harm.
My notion is that if we take it too quietly, the Protectionists will be able to make the Chambers believe that they can do what they like about the Tariff, and need not fear any resentment from England.
The wrath of the defeated protectionists found vent on the same day when another Irish oppression bill was brought before the House.
The rage of the protectionists was voiced by Benjamin Disraeli, then known chiefly as a writer of novels remarkable for the wild exuberance of their fancy.
They have consolations in the future which the Protectionists have not; but they are in as false a position as the Protectionists were; and yet they stand fire on the whole well, and without secession.
The defeat of the Government was so crushing that Whigs and Protectionists alike, on the announcement of the figures, were too much taken aback to cheer.
Finally, we became affectionate, and warned the besotted Protectionists of the danger which was hanging, in a heavy cloud, over their devoted heads.
It is no use disguising the truth; the Protectionistsare like enough to beat us.
The Protectionists are making powerful head, and gaining strength daily; and I cannot look forward to a new general election without feelings of great anxiety.
In conclusion, Mr. Cobden called upon the protectionists cheerfully to make concessions for the good of the community.
The Protectionists would not yield to any suggestions concerning the bad taste displayed as to the moral battle-ground they had chosen.
It was obvious thus early in the session that the Protectionists were prepared to urge their principles, and if possible compel the legislature to retrace its steps on the subject of free trade.
The Protectionistswere unable to make any impression upon the house or the country favourable to a reversal of free trade, or the removal from the landed gentry of the taxes which they professed bore most heavily upon them.
These occurrences tended to lower both Chartists and Protectionists in public estimation, as various witty publications lampooned the prominent actors, and exposed them to overwhelming ridicule.
The Protectionists caught at so many opportunities for prolonged debates, for the purposes of gaining some pecuniary advantage, and of worrying the ministry, that the public business was greatly impeded.
As to the wish of the protectionists to appeal to the country, nobody knew better than they did, that they had no chance of obtaining a majority at the next election.
The populace, however, attacked the meeting--a severe conflict ensued; the Protectionistswere driven from the town.
The Protectionists found another occasion to damage the government during the discussion of the budget.
The American Protectionists point to the danger that their countrymen would run unless town kept pace with country population.
Those who speak of the selfishness of the Protectionists as a whole, can never have taken the trouble to examine into the arguments by which Protection is supported in Australia and America.
Many former colonists who live at home persuade themselves, and unfortunately persuade also the public in England, that the Protectionists are weak in the colonies.
It was distinctly perceived and foretold by the Protectionists that this effect would follow from free-trade, and that, unless something was done to enlarge the currency to meet it, a commercial crisis would ensue.
It would be a matter of cold-blooded bargain, on a par with the similar reciprocal or preferential arrangements which the protectionists proposed to make with foreign countries.
Time proved, however, that the appetites ofprotectionists could not so easily be appeased; and all wings of the party presently found themselves in harmony, in resisting the proposals to set up extremely high barriers.
The protectionists were equally considerate, and so the new party went to the country uncommitted upon this very important question.
On the day on which the bill passed to its third reading in the House of Lords, all the enemies of the government, led by Tory protectionists who considered themselves betrayed by their own Prime Minister combined to overthrow him.
Peel had just declared his conversion to free trade and his intention to repeal the Corn Law duties, when Disraeli rose and in behalf of the unconverted Tory protectionists poured his fire into the face of the Prime Minister.
The slight bred coolness, and as Peel began to veer towards free trade principles, Disraeli, gathering a few ardent Tory protectionists about him, made himself a thorn in the premier's side.
The protectionists were rallied and led by George Bentinck and Benjamin Disraeli, whose star waxed as Peel's began to wane.
Peel carried his bill, as we have seen, but the protectionists wreaked their vengeance by overthrowing his government in the moment of victory.
Despite the mockery of Disraeli and the protectionists the bill passed the Commons by a great majority, and bowing to superior power, the Duke of Wellington helped it to pass the House.
However, he had already made an alliance with Jackson, whose attitude on the tariff no one knew, and who was very popular with the protectionists of Pennsylvania.
Whether this start gave the Protectionists a fillip or no, they were in great spirits, and Mottisfont was up and down shaking hands all the morning.
The Morning Chronicle pointed out that the election had been provoked by the Protectionists in a constituency in Sir Robert's own country; and the writer inferred that, foreseeing defeat, the party of the land were now resorting to violence.
When I first knew him, he was a Benthamite; at present, I sometimes seem to foresee that he will end by being the leader of the Protectionists and the Protestants.
It has been said that it was unwise in the Protectionists assuming office when, on this occasion and on subsequent ones, they were far from being certain of a majority in the House of Commons.
The leader of the Protectionists renounced the attempt in despair, and the author of the anti-papal manifesto was again sent for, and obliged to introduce the measure which had already destroyed a government and disorganised a party.
The Whigs tottered on for a year after the rude assault of Cardinal Penruddock, but they were doomed, and the Protectionists were called upon to form an administration.
The Railway debate and the speech of George Bentinck have thrown the Protectionists into consternation and dismay.
Arbuthnot told me the other day that the Protectionists are doing all they can to disgust the Yeomanry with the service, and to induce them to resign, not without success.
The Protectionists have had the folly to poison and pervert their minds, and to raise a spirit they will find it difficult either to manage or subdue.
The Protectionists are gone mad with the notion of reaction in the country against Free Trade.
The Protectionists were very violent, and Hawes was furiously attacked about a despatch of Sir Charles Grey's, which he had not produced to the West India Committee, and which he was accused of unfairly suppressing.
He said he thought the Protectionists were prepared to form a Government if they carried the resolution.
The Protectionists met yesterday and elected Granby, all the world laughing at their choice.
He said the Protectionists would make some concessions, and for various reasons and on different pretexts they would be easily satisfied.
The only strong Government that could be formed would be a Liberal one under Peel, and the Protectionists would rather encounter the chances of revolution than see the man whom they detest so bitterly at the head of affairs again.
He fancies the Protectionists will throw it out, in which I disagree with him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protectionists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
