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Ceylon sunbeams beat wickedly last week on the high silk topper of Australia's arch-protectionist Prime Minister, James Henry Scullin, the Laborite who has ringed his Dominion with both a tariff wall and a barbed wire circle of embargoes (TIME, July...
...Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo in 1630 was still the capital and nerve centre of the declining Spanish Empire in the New World. Dominicans are prouder than Mexicans of their Spanish blood. Actually over half the population is Mulatto. They pay no taxes. The government struggles along on a 60% tariff on all imports collected for it by a U. S. customs agent, William E. Pullman. Sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, cocoa are their only important crops. World overproduction has ruined all four. A $30,000,000 loss is not a disaster to such a country, it is Calamity. Dominicans wandering...
...gave his reasons for selling 60 purebred milch cows: "I just can't afford to buy feed for the winter. If I did I would run behind about $25,000. With no hay available in Virginia and the prices so high due to the $5-a-ton tariff rate imposed by the last tariff bill, I'm forced to sell. I suppose that some of my cows will just go to the butcher shop...
...Tariff. Last spring the King Government raised duties against the U. S. because of the Hawley-Smoot rates, but failed to up them enough to win the election. Prime Minister Bennett, pledged to smack on duties as high as the U. S. rates if not higher, awaits only the assembling of the new parliament this month to execute this promise. Minister MacNider was ready to protest for the U. S. but his protests were expected to be no more effective than those of Canada against the new U. S. tariff...
...Appointed by the President as No. 2 man on the new Tariff Commission was Thomas Walker Page, Virginia Democrat, oldtime tariff economist who served (1911-12) on President Taft's Tariff Board, on President Wilson's Tariff Commission, rose to be chairman...