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Silver Grapple. While the Debt and Tariff grapples were straight U. S. v. Europe contests, everyone had something to say last week about the catastrophic fall in Silver's price,a world problem primarily affecting Asia...
...Tariff Grapple. In Europe's onslaught against U. S. tariffs last week Briton Bell also led. Too much of a gentleman to flay by name the country in which he was a guest, Banker Bell politely remarked: ''Tariffs, as I see them, are the intrusion into economic well-being of the cannon and the machine gun, the high explosive, the poison...
...other words the Briand way to combat Zollverein is to offer Germany and Austria something better, perhaps a general European cartel based largely on wheat. To maintain a balanced exchange of wheat and manufactures throughout Europe, the plan provides for a system of reciprocal tariff rebates between those countries which are buyers of wheat and exporters of manufactured goods and those which are exporters of wheat and importers of manufactured goods...
Profesor Taussig advanced the idea that the United States could be prosperous whether employing a high or low tariff system. Dean Donham declared the government must either provide dole or jobs, with business powerless to help the present condition...
...That the tariff has not a friend is a natural consequence of party government and the party system, not party politics but from the nature or essence of party contest and manoeuvre. Party contests, however, do crystallize and accentuate differences of opinion and policy...