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Professor F. W. Taussig '79, Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission from 1917 to 1919, will speak before an open forum held by the Harvard Democratic Club in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock...
Discussing his speech with a CRIMSON reporter last night he said that he would speak on "both political parties and the tariff, more particularly the Democratic party and the tariff question. I will treat problems of the recent past and of the present which bear on the subject. Then I will go into the questions which will present themselves during the next Presidential campaign." After his lecture Professor Taussig will be very glad to answer any questions put to him by members of the audience...
Professor Taussig has for many years been closely in touch with the problem which is to be discussed. He is the author of a "Tariff History of the United States". "The Silver Situation in the United State", "Free Trade, the Tariff and Reciprocity" and several other works...
Senator McMaster, South Dakota Republican, unexpectedly chimed in to demand just what assurance of action on farm relief the "progressives" had obtained. He discomfited his Republican brethren with a resolution to bring up revision of the industrial tariff, that being the vulnerable spot of farm-relief antagonists. Senator Brookhart tousled himself afresh in a harangue to the effect that he was proud of having once been "kicked out" of the G. O. P. "There are only two parties in the United States now," he cried. "One is the Wall Street party and the other is that opposed to it." Senator...
Argument: "It is often stated that a reduction of tariff rates on industry would benefit agriculture. It would be interesting to know to what commodities it is thought this could be applied. Everything the farmer uses in farming is already on the free list. Nearly everything he sells is protected. It would seem to be obvious that it is better for the country to have the farmer raise food to supply the domestic manufacturer than the foreign manufacturer. In one case our country would have only the farmer; in the other it would have the farmer and the manufacturer. Assuming...