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Unyoking Mortgages. Of larger scope and hope than the price-upping bill were plans a-making at the White House last week to ease the farmers' mortgage yoke. President Roosevelt conferred long with Congressional leaders who prepared to couple a mortgage relief measure to the farm bill in the Senate. Pondered was the following proposal...
...Yoke. A revolt by the younger generation of Germany against Reparations was predicted by Banker Mitchell. Senators sat at taut attention when he said: "These young people see that not only they but their progeny and their progeny's progeny must go on paying a debt for which they were not responsible. They feel they are under a heavy yoke and they are growing rebellious. It is something that is readily understandable. . . . I'm not preaching any doctrine of cancellation but I'm trying to develop some of the psychology of the people that may have...
Since the last general elections which swept Scot MacDonald into office, not once but several times the support of Liberal Lloyd George has been all that has kept the Laborite Government in office. Recently Liberal oxen have galled under the Lloyd George yoke. Sir John Simon, busy last week in the defense of Lord Kylsant (see p. 17), left the party in disgust, was sped on his way by the hot little Welshman as follows...
...Lift the yoke that bows the nations...
...that China has only recently come to the end of a period of customs tutelage by the Great Powers. For some 80 years they held her down to a general ad valorem duty of only 5%. Now that the young Nationalist Government has squirmed out from under this galling yoke, China might reasonably be expected to do much worse than she did last week - especially as in Oriental lands taxation is usually based upon no other consideration than what the traffic will bear...