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...speech he intimated that if the U. S. Government had seen fit to adopt the Fordney Tariff, there should be a similar tariff for the British Empire. Like General Smuts, Premier of the Union of South Africa, he called attention to the debt owed to the U. S. In 1922 imports from the U. S. were valued at ?222,000,000; exports to the U. S. at ?76,000,000. Premier Bruce thought it would be wise to make the British Isles less dependent on the U. S. and more dependent on the Dominions...
...National Tax Association held its annual convention at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. It was addressed by William Raymond Green of Council Bluffs, la. It happens that Mr. Green is a Congressman, and in the last Congress stood next in seniority to Joseph Warren Fordney on the all-powerful Ways and Means Committee. With Mr. Fordney's Congressional demise, Mr. Green will become Chairman of that Committee. If a new revenue bill should be passed in the next Congress it will be a Green-Smoot, instead of a Fordney-Mc Cumber, bill...
...Arthur based his contentions on the effects of high wages, high cost of living and high cost of production, and the fact that the Fordney Tariff is restricting trade between the TJ. S. and foreign countries...
Said he: "I am certain that, except in a few selected articles, we can compete with them for the export trade of the world." He also claimed that the Fordney Tariff requires U. S. farmers to pay $800,000,000 more for "their machinery and general farm requirements...
Governor Preus, the one hope of the Republicans to keep some sort of a working majority in the Senate, was obliged by the rigors of the campaign to attack the Fordney-McCumber tariff and to keep silence about the Administration. Nevertheless, he was defeated by the discontent of the Minnesota farmers and workingmen of the Iron Range district, and by the vigorous campaigning of a capable politician...