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...something they haven't got." As a matter of fact if the U. S. could apply to farm produce something like the scheme the British are using with rubber, our farm difficulties would be solved.* Both the British and the Democrats in Congress pointed to the U. S. high tariff as an instance of a similar policy of protection to native industries...
...Farmer's Pocketbook. The farmer wants to make a living. For him this is the basic fact. He sees the rest of the community benefited by the tariff, but the tariff does him no good because he has a surplus to sell abroad. What is he going to do about it? He asks in a louder and louder voice for price fixing?and Congress takes...
...first was the death, early in the week, of Senator Felix Jules Meline, 87, dean of French Parliamentarians, Premier during the period of the famed Dreyfus scandal, known as "The McKinley of France" on account of his indefatigable championship of the protective tariff. The passing of M. Meline, it was observed, leaves M. Clémenceau as practically the sole survivor of the group of great French statesmen who were in at the death of the Second Empire and waited as youthful accoucheurs upon the birth of the Third Republic...
Other Topics. The tariff, reapportionment of districts from which representatives are elected, and Vice President Dawes' proposal for a cloture rule in the Senate, all may receive consideration but probably nothing serious in the way of action...
...argument itself there is much truth in it. Italy would be better able to pay if she could export to us more citrous fruits than has been possible under the high tariff, more labor than under the present immigration laws, more wine than under the Volstead Act. How much more she could pay if these restrictions were removed is problematical. But if the restrictions were removed, loud would be the angry cries of the U.S. growers of citrous fruits, of U.S. labor, U.S. bootleggers. The question is the old one: "Do we want to be paid...