New Britain herald., 1929-08-08

very own will prove the rock upon
 which the party will come to grief Said rock is nothing else but our old | friend the tariff and the cause for grief is an evident diversity Of opinion, even in the Senate Finance committee, over just what the tariff should be on various things supplied | by manufacture, agriculture or mln- | ing. The republicans of the Senate are said to have failed in an effort
 to write a tariff bill, presumably be-
 cause they could not agree upon the
 schedules, each individual, because of sectional origin or private desires,
 wishing his pet object dutied so high
 that it would be possible to receive an even greater revenue from the
 home-produced article than mere ! protection" warrants.
 In the background is the doubt
 
 over just how much President Hoo- yer will stand for in high duties, the leadership of the low tariff element in the Finance committee, and the question of the wisdom of too high
 protection"
 ;,, iC caftinn nOt
 slow in promising their workmen better incomes should the Repubh- can party be kept in power at the last election, holding over the head
 of labor the threat that Democratic administration would mean a lower
 tariff and less profit to the bench worker who produced our manufac- turcd article. Should there be brought about free trade living con- ditions would soon become as they are abroad. they said. They ignored the fact that the DemocratA were
 not advocating free trade, they had their line, they stuck to it and it had it's effect unquestonably.
 It is no state secret that there IS
 not too much enthusiasm over the treatment of local concerns in pend- ing tariff bills, manufacturers feel
 that their protection is not high enough, or rather does not promise
 to be high enough. They would probably feel that way unless the government disbarred foreign goods from entry into this country at all, thus eliminating competition entire lv. The Hawley bill of the House of Representatives might or might not
 make a change in the past tariffs for manufactured articles. We have not studied it's schedules, or even seen the bill for that matter. But it is not enough we are sure.
 Meanwhile what is happening to the promise that living conditions
 among the mass or workmen, the l bench producers, would be bettered ! if a Republican was elected, as he
 was? No figures are available for
 this either, but it takes no stretch of
 the imagination to see that there are more men out of work in our inn mediate neihgborh ood than there
 have been over an average year of
 the last four and we have heard of
 wage cuts in various departments of i local factories as well. If anything.
 ill the aggregate men are worse off,
 not better. All of this is taking place
 in the first year of a Republican ad-
 ministration following directly upon , the heels of four years of the same
 political tactics. Which goes 10 prove
 that political promises, by any party
 for that matter, which has to at
 tempt to manage a country with as
 diversified interests as ours are
 worthy of no notice.
 President Hoover is building as
 best he knows how. and he appears
 to know well, for the future of Re
 publicanism in the United States
 Not in Connecticut, but in California
 Kansas and Florida four states
 whose aims are quite different, is he trying to re-enforce G. o. P. aftilia,
 ton. The representatives in Congres. are trying to do the same thing Each of the latter is trying to get tn, maximum tariff on goods which vii compete with the goods manufactur
 ed or raised in their states, and try
 ing 10 keep down the tariff on tn stuff which their people must buy as competition is great for the buy CT. and each is going to be disa D pointed whatever the outcome l President Hoover fails to protect on article and over protects another h \ is going to make an enemy of tn producer of one while he will mak , friend of the other. It is a difficu situation for him and for the part, THE ZEPPELIN ON HER WAY AGAIN
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