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...Fordney Tariff a Blunder...
Centered on other matters, the public has up to now given but little attention to the Fordney bill, but its working and rates have a vital similarity to the illfated Payne bill of 1909, and the new Tariff Act is a return to protection ideas antiquated in themselves and even less applicable to our industrial conditions today than they were when they were repudiated by the people...
...true that our neighbor, some ten years ago, showed small interest in the matter of reciprocity in commerce--not that excuses our present attitude as expressed in the Fordney tariff bill--but it is equally true that Canada now realizes her mistake and seems ready to change matters. A changes, however, depends as a matter of course on what the United States will do; it takes two to make a reciprocity treaty or anything approaching closer relations with the Dominion. Mr. Fielding, in the recent budget report of the minister of finance, admits that Canada lost "a golden opportunity...
...mean little more than a direct tax on education, a fine that any man must pay for the privilege of adding to his mental store. It has not been usual in past economic systems to regard learning as a material commodity. To make it dutiable now, as Mr. Fordney inadvertently proposes to do, is to bring in a dangerous innovation and to do much injustice as well...
...resolution protesting against those terms of the Fordney Tariff Bill now in committee, which place a duty on the importation of foreign books more than twenty years old and of almost all books in foreign languages, has been passed by the Corporation of the University and communicated to Chairman Fordney of the Purse Committee on Ways and Mean Chairman McCumber of the Senate Finance Committee, and the Massachusetts Senators and Representatives at Washington, it was announced at the University last night...