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...Japan's already well-spanked bottom President Roosevelt gave one more mild slap. He upped the tariff 50% on canned crabmeat, of which the U.S. bought $3,269,000 worth from Japan last year...
...make the article on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff interesting reading, you unblushingly showed that as a consequence of its passage, more than a dozen unrelated, world-shaking events resulted. Are we to believe that if the tariff act had not been passed, we would have no Hitler and World...
...should have underlined the following statement: "Economic nationalism, forced into full flower by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, became the physical basis for the ideology of Fascism...
...This tariff is one of the best examples of the idiocy of isolationism with which our entire history is replete. Small groups of willful men-the Borahs and the Johnsons-have never failed to pop up at critical times to sabotage a logical foreign policy, but our history as a nation shows that the negative philosophy of isolation never has worked and never can or will be feasible...
...referring to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff . . . you charge to it all the country's ills the past eight years except the drought and the grasshoppers. . . . Evidence that the law is needed is found in fact that the Democrats, loudest campaign critics of the measure, have not repealed it although in complete Congressional power since 1933. The flank attacks on the tariff system by reciprocal trade treaties merely indicate recognition of system's value to America. Very unfortunate to start undermining protective tariff system now when the ending of the war with accompanying rush for markets will make America...