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...whose producers are benefited by such assistance." He again said: "Only the mechanics remain to be devised." He again promised, if elected, to call in farm experts and have "the mechanics" devised in time for his first message to Congress. (Nominee Hoover had mentioned three methods of farm relief-tariff, waterways, Federal Loan fund...
Farm Relief was given more time than any other subject. The orator began with analysis and expression of deep solicitude. He totally avoided "equalization fee." His promises: 1) "to search out the common ground"; 2) benefit of tariff; 3) waterways, principally Great Lakes to Atlantic; 4) Federal Farm Board with money to spend. ... "A nation which is spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a few hundred millions for a workable program that will give to one-third of its population their fair share of the nation's prosperity. . . . The working out of agricultural relief...
...Tariff: 100% high tariff doctrine with this original addition: "Other countries gain nothing if the high standards of America are sunk and if we are prevented from building a civilization which sets the level of hope for the entire world...
...opposed Free Trade, opposition to which was exemplified in the famous Corn Laws. But with the changing needs of a country fast deserting agrarianism for industrialism, Peel reconsidered. Suddenly in the summer of 1846 the crops failed, famine threatened. Peel declared for a Whig measure-repeal of the corn tariff-thus precipitating one of the bitterest battles of British politics. With devastating sarcasm, scintillating wit, and considerable treachery, Disraeli immortally flayed his chief as "a great parliamentary middleman . . . who bamboozles one party and plunders the other," and reviled him for having caught the Whigs bathing and stolen their clothes...
...Minister to Switzerland Hugh Robert Wilson last week signed for the U. S., at Berne, one more supplementary agreement to the multilateral trade convention of 1927 to do away with multifold prohibitions and tariff restrictions which the warring nations set up against each other in 1914-1918. The U. S. was the twenty-eighth and last nation finally to sign the new agreement. The agreement was a list of exceptions. It specified a few remaining articles of commerce which it was agreed might still be subjected to prohibitions and restrictions by the various nations. It was agreed that Chile...