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Around the Virgin Islands prevail the old Danish tariff law (average rate: 7%,) instead of the U. S. Hawley-Smoot Act (average rate: 39%). Danish currency is likewise legal tender because the islands' bank continues to operate under its original Danish charter. The U. S. Congress appropriated $600,000 to put the black islanders back on the land, 90% of which is owned by a score of rich foreigners. Emigration to the U. S. has cut the islands' population in a decade by 15%, down...
With the new Austro-German tariff pact so much to the forefront in the news of the world the Vagabond feels that he would do well to polish up a bit on the historical background of the present controversy. He can see in the unseemly haste which France has displayed in protesting the new agreement a recurrence of that dread of German power which she felt so acutely prior to 1914. Perhaps that dread was not unbased. The Vagabond proposes to hear Professor Artz discuss the last years of the heyday of German Imperialism this morning. The place is Harvard...
Results, Resolutions showed the tenor of Progressive thought. Among the re-forms the conference called for were: 1) abolition of the electoral college and the popular election of the President (without which no Third Party can make any effective headway); 2) tariff revision to in-clude the transfer of flexible authority from the White House to the Capitol; 3) Unemployment insurance; 4) co-ordinate State and Federal job agencies (the vetoed Wagner bill); 5) repeal of the War- time espionage act; 6) a law against Federal wiretapping; 7) admission of Cabinet members to Congressional debates; 8) removal of postal censorship...
...tariff on U. S. exports will be further upped (Mr. Bennett being determined to batter down the U. S. tariff wall eventually by reprisals); and next month Mother Britain will come in for a buffet when Canada's provincial premiers meet for a Dominion Conference. As foreshadowed in the Speech from the Throne this historic conclave will sever virtually the last restraining bond and make Canada completely free of domination by London. This it will do by revoking the act which makes His Majesty's Privy Council in London the court of last resort in Canadian litigation. Once...
...chief effect of this alliance on other countries", continued Professor Fay, "will be their indirect improvement through the bettered conditions in Germany and Austria. Moreover a precedent may be set for like unions, which appear the best solution to the tariff problem which the recent conference so signally failed in adjusting...