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That old political stand-by, tariff, is about to resume its formerly undisputed place in the public eye. A senatorial committee for investigation of the United States Tariff Commission has just been formed. The usual concomitants of such investigations are not wanting: startling disclosures are promised and the old line Republicans aver that the Democrats are merely seeking campaign material. The Commission, it is charged, has lost its non-partisan, independent character and has become a tool in the hands of the present administration...
...Under the flexible provision of the Tariff Act of 1922 and in accordance with the findings of the Tariff Commission, the President issued a proclamation increasing the tariff on butter 50%, from eight to twelve cents a pound. The reason for the change was to equalize the cost of production between the U. S. and Denmark, the chief competing country...
There has been repeated talk of reviving the tariff issue and that possibility is still open, but no ambitious undertaking in that direction has been marked out, and at a time when the country is as prosperous as at present that issue loses some of its appeal...
...often inform prospective fares that they are on the way to their own dinners-and wait to be bribed. After midnight they usually demand a sum based on the appearance of those who hail them. A quietly dressed Parisian and his wife may get home for almost the day tariff. A silken-caped, silk-hatted Argentine millionaire with his hatless ermine-caped mistress may be held up until he almost buys...
...portend Republican success in coming elections. By not taking issue, the Democrats may make some very good issues. Although Democratic voters in general will approve the entrance into the World Court, the repeal of the estate tax and the mere fact of the aluminum controversy added to the perennial tariff issue and viewed in the light of a distinct Democratic Party not leagued with the Insurgents, can give the Republicans the usual trouble at mid-term elections...