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...repeal of the McKenna duties on automobiles, watches, clocks, etc., became effective with the passing of July. It was rumored that thousands...
...Retention of surtaxes on swollen incomes; restoration of the tax on excess profits, on stock dividends, profits undistributed to evade estates and taxes; rapidly progressive taxes on large estates and inheritances and repeal of excessive tariff duties, especially on trust-controlled necessities ot life, and of nuisance taxes on consumption, to relieve the people of the present unjust burden of taxation and compel those who profited by the War to pay their share ot the War costs and to provide the funds for adjusted compensation solemnly pledged to the veterans ot the World...
...Repeal of the Cummins-Esch law. Public ownership of railroads, with democratic operation with definite safeguards against bureaucratic control...
...upon Irish affairs, said editorially: "We do not understand that there is any serious idea among British jurists that the treaty could be invalidated or thus any of its provisions legally frustrated by an act of disloyalty to the Imperial Parliament on Ulster's part. No citizen can repeal a law 'distasteful to him by disobeying it. "?-'-:t is quite intelligible that Mr. MacDonald may wish this governing principle to be laid down afresh, with all the authority which a verdict coming from the whole empire would give it. If, as the treaty act requires, he must...
...limitation of armaments! It would not be surprising to hear of some representative calling for an appropriation to finance a conference of scofflaws who might find a way of persuading a prominent delegate from Florida to the Democratic National Convention to become their standard bearer in bringing about a repeal of the 18th Amendment. The sanest thing Congress can do before adjournment is to invite a body of allenists to determine how many of its number should transfer so other lastitutions...