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...White Pine Camp, last weekend, began to inform their readers what President Coolidge was expected to say in his message to Congress three months hence. They announced that he would not say anything to cause a tremor in the business world, that he would not tinker with the tariff nor make any radical changes in the Clayton and Sherman Anti-Trust laws. Correspondents anticipate that the President will urge the enactment of Senator Fess' farm bill and General Andrews' prohibition enforcement measures; that he will oppose independence* for the Philippines...
...Germany took advantage of her fall in currency to put all her large industrial plants in order, and is now ready for producing goods on a large scale capacity, greater than any other nation. A high tariff is the only protection the United States has to offset, for, if it is lowered, the high-waged American worker will meet the direct competition of the low-waged German. "As a Democrat, I think it is impossible to change the present tariff...
...Spokesman Coolidge called the gentlemen of the press together last week, informed them that he had reason to be vexed. First, he emphatically denied rumors which said that the U. S. would make tariff concessions to Europe in order to be admitted to the World Court. Then, he urged all news papers to refrain from the dissemination of rumors and confine themselves to . facts in relating foreign news. Said The New York World: "Mr. Coolidge ... in the talk of the street, had his nerve with him." More tranquil, the Republican New York Evening Post remarked: "The place for the newspaper...
...majority under the leadership of President Coolidge." How has this prosperity been attained? By- 1) The limitation of arms in the Washington Conference so that tax payers are saved five billion dollars which would otherwise have been spent on the country's naval building program. 2) "A protective tariff sufficiently high to cover the difference between the cost of living here and abroad, 12 per cent lower than the Payne-Aldrich rates, 20 per cent below the Dingley rates and with 60 per cent of all importations on the free list." Due to this tariff protection, the value...
...classes of taxpayers, except a small number of the very largest, in all three tax reduction bills under the last two Republican Administrations, came through the Democratic Party." 3) "The farmer has learned one thing about the tariff, and that is that it compels him to buy in a highly protected market and to sell in a free world market." Amounts contributed by large manufacturers who are beneficiaries of the tariff prove the iniquitous character of the policy. 4) Republicans defeated farm relief in the 69th session. 5) Democrats favor "an honest trade law that will stimulate business by fair...