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...Senators of the Chilean Congress were circularized, last week, by the American Smelting and Refining Co. The circulars declared that only the most deplorable results can be expected if the Chilean Government takes action under the law empowering them to impose a tax similar in effect to a "protective tariff" for the benefit of Chilean smelting interests...
...perhaps 5,000,000. Yet U. S. sugar men frowned, last week, when the conservative Journal of Commerce (N. Y.) reported the word "determined" as issuing from the Presidential mouth of Cuba's Gen. Gerardo Machado y Morales. Still frowning, sugarmen considered an appeal to Congress to boost tariff rates, another appeal to Cuban producers to conclude a "Gentleman's Agreement...
...Hughes] himself was responsible for the statement made before the Bar Association that I am a past master in the art of politics. At the same time he says that you cannot take the tariff out of politics. Now, if both statements are right, let him leave that...
...Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, daughter of the late Great Commoner. She has her father's face and something of his frame. Modern conditions required her to substitute practical thinking for the passionate oratory that might have been her inherited forte. Long before the Smith tariff declaration at Louisville, she found it necessary to declare for Protection, which her father fought so long. Florida has changed since the Commoner first invested in its real estate and conducted prayer meetings there. Northern business men and methods opened a new field for northern political ideas and attitudes. Ruth Bryan Owen...
Ability-Able man though Governor Smith may be, the people considered Herbert Hoover an abler, on his record as a national executive, to meet the country's problems of Farm Relief, Waterways, Cooperation with Business, the Tariff...