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...Free Trade Movement in England, and Continental Tariff History before 1860", Professor Gay, Harvard 1, Economics...
...subjects with which the Conference is most likely to concern itself," added Professor Young, "are tariffs and industrial combinations. Different as these two subjects are in most respects they have certain elements in common. The present obstacles to industrial progress in Europe are such as might exist in the United States if every state in the United States had its own protective tariff and if industrial companies found it difficult to operate with more than some one state. Efficient industrial organization calls for larger markets than the petty national economic units into which Europe is split up can now provide...
Professor Young has much more confidence in tariff reduction than in the creation of great international industrial combinations. The economy as achieved by large-scale combinations, he claims, was commonly overestimated. He does not look for any general or sweeping reduction of European tariff in the near future. He said he thought there would be reduction in central and Eastern Europe and that the general trend of European tariffs would be downward instead of upward...
...Unrebuffed, Senator Reed went to the White House and assured the President that the Senate would soon confirm Mr. Woods' appointment by a substantial majority. He counts on the aid of the regular Republicans, plus the Southern Democrats who have their eyes on two appointments for the Tariff and Federal Trade Commissions, which will probably go to Democrats. Political plums often make salve...
Next day, Senator George of Georgia did get into the papers because he, a Democrat, said in Washington that Southern textile industries and farmers want a protective tariff...