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...foot on the floor. . . . Although I didn't succeed in getting into the platform a plank for insurance of bank deposits in banks which are members of the Federal Reserve system, I intend to work for such insurance, if elected. I propose to fight for an adequate tariff to protect the oil industry of this State. Twenty-one cents per barrel is wholly inadequate...
What They Got. Premier Bennett, shrewdest haggler of them all, went into the Conference with one supreme determination?to get from Britain the right of free entry for all natural products of the Dominions. Great Britain's tariff law enacted last March had imposed duties against foreign goods with the provision that these duties could be applied to the Dominions after next November. Mr. Bennett wanted a market for Canadian wheat, dairy products, poultry, lumber. Mr. Bruce wanted a market for Australian frozen meat. For this pair poky Mr. Baldwin was no match. Before they were through with him Britain...
...wheat into Britain profitably Mr. Bennett needed two things: 1) a preferential tariff; 2) protection against "dumped" Russian wheat. The first was not easy but it was against the latter provision that Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues fought longest and hardest. Russia is a good customer of Britain for manufactured goods. She must sell Britain something to have money to buy those goods. Finally Mr. Baldwin promised that Britain would prohibit the entry of any state-controlled commodity sold so cheaply as to destroy Dominion preference (i. e. at less than world prices). Mr. Bennett wanted the word shall used...
...Association." President: Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, member of the Dail and good friend of former President William T. Cosgrave. Their first pronunciamento attacked Communism "or any disguised form of it introduced surreptitiously into the country." In addition the Comrades Association attacked long-necked President de Valera and his tariff war with Great Britain: "We regard as charged with extremely dangerous potentialities the new fashion of branding as traitors certain public men with whom we have had the privilege of being associated in defense of the state. Should any Irishman come to harm as the result of 'traitor pointing...
...stockholders (Artificial applause) but to save 25 millions of American families, every one of whose savings and employment might have been wiped out. ... I shall propose such other measures as may be necessary to speed economic recovery. That recovery may be slow, but we will succeed (Real applause). . . . Tariff. "I am squarely for the protective tariff. I am against the proposal of a 'competitive tariff for revenue' as advocated by our opponents...