Tariff Destruction Would Breed New Wars
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler argues against free trade and the Buy American push, warning that excessive foreign demand spurs conflict. He advocates protecting home markets to raise living standards and reduce war pressures, urging balanced economies and gradual tariff easing only after global adjustments. He traces historical shifts in protection and free trade, urging statemanship to study new economic trends and elevate living standards.
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Nicholas Murray Butler
Senate Committee On Finance
Venice
Holland
England
East India Company
Adam Smith
Watt
Cobden
Manchester School
Joseph Chamberlain
Henry Carey
Philadelphia
Frederick List
America
Little Island
Ireland
Napoleon
Europe
Bismarck
Germany
Japan
Italy
Russia
France
Rrussia
Rome
Let the Hurricane Roar and the Woman Question
Rose Wilder Lane argues in Let the Hurricane Roar that independent American women erode male strength by sharing responsibility and rescue roles. She quotes and analyzes views on whether strong wives empower or undermine men, emphasizing the friction between modern gender roles and traditional male authority.
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Rose Wilder Lane
Caroline
Dakotas
Mrs. Lane
Equal Roles in Marriage and Hotel Etiquette Questions
A reader column explores whether marriage should be fifty fifty and questions if men or women gain from equal partnerships. The piece also includes letters about hotel service, advising how to handle neglected towels, missing items, and asking clerks for proper service.
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Marti
Heromes
Neryvice
Korvine
Wing Pana
The fading glory of Weber and Fields at New York Music Hall
A long fragment reflects on a failed Broadway opening that mocked the era’s humor. It contrasts Weber and Fields’s familiar act with younger tastes, recalls Rupert Hughes’s near mishap in Cleveland and a portrait of Noel Coward’s reception, and touches on wandering journalists, train dining lore, and social figures of theatrical life.
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New York
Weber
Fields
Bielus
Fine Cattle Not Product of Chance
A royal scene shows the Prince of Wales at Stoke Climeland Farm with a prime beef animal. The piece argues breeding quality in cattle mirrors human development, praising careful selection and warning against overemphasizing sheer size without brains. It contrasts beef effort with longhorns and muses on genius arising by chance versus breeding.
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Prince of Wales
France
Stoke Climeland
Duchy of Cornwall
David Annand
Anus
Customs Inspector Shot While Busting Rum Runners
San Antonio reports that customs inspector Jim Wallen was shot through the heart while surprising rum runners loading a car between the international bridge and Del Rio. Ten board inspectors were fined for using punchboards near the public boats. Deaths on the San Antonio River are linked to gas in the stream, with hundreds of fish found dead near Cassin’s Bridge.
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Jim Wallen
International Bridge
del Rio
San Antonio
Tn & Teppie Urougne
Casxin
Enle
And I Remember When
William F. Ross recalls meeting the young Tent Tipton later Sir Thomas Lipton, as Tipton walked from New Orleans to Scotland aboard a wing vessel. The note mentions their friendship and a collected fund of 36 dollars raised on moonlight nights for his fortune.
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William F. Ross
Tent Tipton
Sir Thoma Lipton
Perr
Scotland
New
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