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...Tariff. Again the President dwelt on the U.S. farmer in copybook language...
Facts: "The present tariff rates supply the national Treasury with well over $600,000,000 of annual revenue. Yet, about 65% of our imports come in duty free. Of the remaining 35% of imports on which duties are laid about 23% consists of luxuries and agricultural products, and the balance of about 12%, amounting to around $560,000,000, is made up of manufactures and merchandise. As no one is advocating any material reduction in the rates on agriculture or luxuries, it is only the comparatively small amount of about $560,000,000 of other imports that are really considered...
...EIGHT YEARS OF WALL STREET- GIVE MAIN STREET A CHANCE!"- Mrs. Wilbur W. Hubbard, Chestertown, Md. ¶ "TARIFF RELIEF MEANS FARM RELIEF!" F. N. Martin, Newberry, S. C. ¶ "BY THEIR LOOTS YE SHALL KNOW...
Governor Theodore Christiansen of Minnesota, to urge a 50% increase in the tariff on Argentine corn...
...taken with it the demagogue. Certainly in this country the laborers riding in cars produced by the most pronounced capitalism are too prosperous to cry out against Wall Street. The words Republican or Democrat are no longer clannish distinctions because the differences over farm relief, ship building, and the tariff, little interest the unaffected majority. Politics has yielded place as the prime subject for discussion. Even the irregularities of the Harding administration aroused little feeling, and few demands for disclosures. The public attitude in its present dangerous complacency quite belies the state of democracy...