This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...the act a dead letter, repealed it--but not until a good deal of excitement had been stirred up about it. England's policy of compelling the colonials to buy from her only, and then putting a big tariff on everything, made smuggling a very profitable and prosperous trade, and one-fourth of the men who signed the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...the act a dead letter, repealed it--but not until a good deal of excitement had been stirred up about it. England's policy of compelling the colonials to buy from her only, and then putting a big tariff on everything, made smuggling a very profitable and prosperous trade, and one-fourth of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were well known to be engaged in it. The lower orders, as the working class was then styled, very rarely tasted such a luxury as tea, but the "better element" in society consumed great quantities of it, and as they could get it cheaper from the highly respectable smugglers than from the government, which had a duty to exact, they patronized the smugglers and all went well. In fact, the government tax on tea was rather a good thing, for it kept the government tea off the market and thus left all the business to the smugglers, and at the same time enabled them to get good prices. If the government tariff had been still higher these gentlemen would have been still better pleased. But during this time the East India Company, which handled the legitimate tea busines, had accumulated seventeen million pounds of unsalable tea in its warehouses, and there were still other cargoes lying in Boston harbor. The company, in order to dispose of this immense stock before it spoiled, persuaded the government to remit the tax. When this was done the tea in Boston harbor was cheaper to the consumer than the tea offered by the smugglers. Thereupon the smugglers arose in patriotic wrath and dumped the goods of their undercutting competitor into the bay. This was the performance which has been presented to the mind of the American schoolboy as an act of exalted patriotic devotion. At the opening of the year of the revolution all was...
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