Word: tariffers
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...further that the only true comparison with 1896 would be Mr. Bryan, then a young Congressman from Nebraska, with no record except extraordinary oratorical power, and a heart warm with sympathy for the farmer suffering from the serious economic injury of the Protective Tariff, asking for a change in the standard dollar from looc to ,soc. nominated unexpectedly without any previous suggestion even during the pre-convention campaign, and Mr. Roosevelt, with 20 years of active experience...
...powers of the House of Lords and if possible to entrench it by legislation against removal by a Labor government. In a series of cut & dried resolutions they then voted full support to the National Government, the present British fiscal policy and the trade agreements resulting from the Ottawa (Tariff) Conference...
...Blackpool Conference was to approve Things-As-They-Are-And-Were. But newshawks gleefully reported what many called "the typical Tory tirades." Example: frosty Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, warmed up to the point of flaying Free Trader Lloyd George for his recent attacks on the tariff results of the Ottawa Conference thus: "Even if a cat is pulled out of the cream jug by the tail, as was Lloyd George, that is no reason why it should spit in the cream...
Smart Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of the orthodox (Free Trade) Liberal Party, fired an effective broadside of cod-liver oil last week at the MacDonald-Baldwin National Government from which he and Lord Snowden resigned on the tariff issue...
...want to give just one illustration." cried Sir Herbert last week at a female Liberal rally, "of how the interests of the British consumer were ignored by the National Government at the Ottawa [Tariff] Conference. The most valuable medicine for delicate children is cod-liver oil. Hundreds of thousands of poor parents in this country have to buy bottle after bottle to save the lives and strengthen the bodies of their babies, and most of it has been coming from Norway duty free. But now the delegates of the British Government have agreed at Ottawa to impose a tariff...