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...good many years, Canada's Liberal Government has clucked maternally about the joys of free trade, the selfish shortsightedness of high tariff walls. Last week Canadians discovered that the Government does not always practice what it -preaches. Buried deep in the budget, and bypassed in a 42-word, offhand way by Finance Minister James L. Ilsley in his recent budget speech (not of "major importance," said he), was a new 20% tariff wall-increased from 5%-on seamless-steel boiler tubing...
Everything about the new tariff conflicted with pious Liberal doctrines. Items...
...imposed despite the fact that the company's pleas for tariff protection had been consistently refused, even by the warmly pro-tariff Conservative Government that ruled Canada between...
...reconstruction is more a political than an industrial problem. Will the U.S. advance funds to shore up the bankrupt Philippine Treasury and grant long-term credits for the purchase of machinery? More important, will Philippine independence, scheduled for June 1, 1946, mean that the U.S. will throw up a tariff wall against the import of sugar, tobacco and other products into the U.S. market? If this happens, many a Filipino businessman feels that reconstruction will be impossible...
...peckerwoods and rednecks and the big planters from the South (who did not like the tariff) and the farmers from the West (who did not like the Bank), they voted Old Hickory to be the seventh President of the Yewnited States. Then they all marched to Washington. Old Hickory kicked Nicholas Biddle higher than the day before yesterday and the Yewnited States Bank higher than the day before next. Then they all went to the White House for free grog and climbed over the fancy chairs with muddy boots. Everybody got jobs with the Government because, as Old Hickory said...