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The Tariff Commission has been badly divided against itself. It was divided three to three on the question of whether a member should sit in a hearing in regard to a commodity in which he was financially interested. Congress settled that question by saying "No!" The latest division was on...
"The question is whether America will allow itself to be degraded into a communistic or socialistic State or whether it will remain American. Those who want to continue to enjoy the high state of American citizenship will resist all attempts to encroach upon the power of the courts." In closing...
He declared: "The people have found a great hope, and that hope is in the Progressive movement. We have enlisted in the campaign to restore this Government to the service of the public, to secure to the laborer and producer in all lines a greater share of the product of...
Protective Tariff. "America opposes special privilege for anybody and favors equal opportunity for everybody. . . . The Republican Party supports the policy of protection as a broad principle, good alike for producer and consumer."
3) Fordney-McCumber Tariff. "I charge the Republican Party with this corruption in office. I charge it also with favoritism in legislation. In the passage of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act, imposing the highest rates and duties in the tariff history of the Nation, there was an unblushing return to...