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...Speaker, with other "deal" candidates winning handily. The vote sent glimmering Vice President Garner's aspiration to run the House from the Senate rostrum. In his place the House Democrats had picked an oldster of 28 years service, a lawyer-turned-farmer, a low-tariff sales-taxer, a radical of yesterday with whose advanced ideas the country is just catching...
...worst "sweat" spot in the State and its dressmaking industry, employing 50.000 women, was the most "sweated" trade. Unscrupulous employers, with a labor surplus at hand, had battered wages down to the Chinese coolie level. In many a sweatshop the "U. S. standard of living," which the textile tariff is supposed to protect, had declined to a point where workers could subsist only with the help of charity. Girls were sleeping in subways because they could not earn the price of a bed. Hospitals were filling with women who had worked themselves into a state of collapse for a pittance...
...High-tariff Republicans call Cordell Hull a free-trader. He calls himself a Jeffersonian Democrat committed to tariff-for-revenue-only. In 1910 he damned the Payne-Aldrich law as "a miserable travesty, an ill-designed patchwork, a piece of brazen legislative jobbery" and in 1932 he flayed the Hawley-Smoot act as "utterly disastrous to our trade." Long an advocate of tariff reciprocity, he wrote that plank into the last Democratic platform. As President Roosevelt's Secretary of State his job will be to negotiate tariff treaties. Senator Hull's world views: "The mad pursuit of economic...
...Debts: "However important they may be, they are not a major cause of the panic nor are they a major remedy. . . . Each important country before seeking separate and preferential consideration of their claims for further [debt] reduction, should first indicate their attitude toward the more fundamental program of tariff cuts...
...reduce their income taxes. Three years (1917-20) as Commissioner of Internal Revenue qualified him for this practice. Before that he was President Wilson's First Assistant Postmaster General. He arrived in Washington as a Congressional secretary, demonstrated a rare talent with figures, helped draft the Underwood Tariff Act (1913). Earlier in South Carolina, he had served in the State Legislature where, although an ardent Dry and devout Methodist, he offered legislation creating the notorious South Carolina liquor dispensary system. Never since has he ceased to talk of the failure of that system...