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...meeting yesterday, which Mr. Herbert C. Pell '05, Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee attended, the National Committee also determined to limit the number of guests by allowing each state chairman to invite three. The small size of the balcony in New Lecture Hall will make it impossible to admit the public. The convention will be limited to male guests, so that the presence of women and children will not force the delegates to restrain themselves...
...want to see either rich or poor escape taxation," Mr. H. C. Pell '05 said last night, "but I want to see the pinch equally applied. Ninety percent of the corruption in American politics is the direct result of the rotten taxes and tariffs enforced by the Republicans. As a nation, we are now envied by all, liked by a few and hated by a few, but if we continue in our present policy as regards the tariff, we will be distrusted...
...There has been corruption before in American politics," Mr. Pell said, in speaking of the Teapot Dome Scandal, "but never has it been taken so complacently. President Coolidge has yet to express one word of indignation at those who betrayed his confidence and that of his predecessor. It is just that, that makes Calvin Coolidge impossible as a president, in the eyes of the thinking public. He talks little, and does nothing...
...discussing Prohibition, Mr. Pell committed himself, as he did in Congress against the Volstead Act. "Its faults lie in that it is applied to the poor and not to the rich and that it has no weight of public opinion behind it. If a burglar should walk through the Yard, you fellows would look on him with dislike and horror. But do you shun a bootlegger, when he breaks the law as much as the burglar does...
...Pell has written much on political subjects and has twice been a member of Congress, representing the same congressional district as Mr. Ogden L. Mills '05, who recently addressed the Republican Club. He has been president of the New York Constitutional Leagu, and is a prominent member of the American Academy of Political Science...