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Bombing Attack. The freebooting ally of Marshal Simmons, General Borah of Idaho, leader of the Republican irregulars, opened the battle by leading a bombing attack on Manufacturing City. As his mighty bombers swept over the smoking chimneys, he first dropped propaganda on the citizens: "The total value of the manufactures imported to the United States in 1928 was less than 3.4% of the total domestic production of manufactured goods in the United States. We are now living practically under an embargo, so far as manufactured goods are concerned...
...attack had hardly been consummated when from the Republican side Major-General Reed of Pennsylvania leaped into a fighting plane and pursued the Borah bomber with a stream of machine gun bullets: "I wonder whether the time may not some day come when the self-chosen advocate of the farmer's cause will himself realize the truth that we are advantaging the American-farmer as we increase the prosperity of the cities of America...
...Line. Before Flexible Tariff Ridge, where the protectionists awaited the assault, Republican leaders voluntarily abandoned a salient which they feared would fall. The line authorizing the President to increase tariffs after investigating "conditions of competition" in U.S. markets between home-made and imported goods, was given up. General Borah's troops were already massing against...
...have only one leader -that we do not follow," retorted irregular General Borah...
Richard Washburn Child, former U. S. ambassador to Italy, wrote to Senator Borah about the Senate investigation...