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Congress will not, said Mr. Watson, tinker with farm legislation or the tariff...
Thus the former leader severed his connection abruptly, precipitately. And what was the cause? For the past few months the Centre has been tending more and more to the Nationalist Right. In particular it supported the high tariff proposed by the Nationalists. But Herr Wirth has grown closer and closer to the Centre's former allies, the Socialists. On one occasion he remarked: "The enemy stands at the right. If it ever comes to a struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat I desire to give notice that I shall be on the side of the proletariat...
...Situation. The problem of the conference will be much more than the economic question of determining what tariff is fair and equable. It involves the entire situation in China. China is a bundle of conflicting forces none of which is dominant. In the first place there is the Peking Government, nominally ruling the country but actually hardly more than painted drop screen in front of affairs. The Peking Government is extraordinarily weak. In South China its power is purely nominal. The great body of the people, 95% or more is illiterate and grossly ignorant, some...
...that it can really rule, is by catering to that sentiment. Any government that attempts to oppose it is ministering to its own downfall. Consequently the Government in issuing invitations to the customs conference wanted to have customs automony discussed with a view to throwing out foreign control of tariff collection-or, if that is unobtainable, to secure such high duties as will strengthen it by increasing its revenue and enabling it to reduce internal taxes. If the Chinese can induce the conference to make preparations for the abolition of extraterritoriality (special privileges for foreigners resident in China) - that would...
...that it is reported the Department of Commerce and Industry will advocate new import duties on watches and phonograph records. The profitableness of such duties indicates the spreading field of Japanese consumption and also of manufactures, for the new duties are planned also as a kind of protective tariff...