Tariff Commission Proposal Seen as Harmful Humour
The editorial warns that appointing a bi party tariff commission would be a sham and a menace to prosperity. It argues such a body would lock in extended tariff agitation, cause widespread uncertainty, and shift influence from Congress to bureaucratic recommendations. It urges open forum debate and Treasury department revenue impact reports instead.
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Sale They Hate Tariff Not Trusts
A Denver Republic an editorial argues that free traders seek to overturn protection by attacking tariffs, citing trusts as pretexts. It says true protection benefits American labor and industry, and urges voters to trust those who defend tariff policy amid broad pro free trade sentiment.
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United States
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Kansas Notes and Town Snapshots of 1903
A humorous Kansas bulletin reels through small-town life with odds and ends: a Ottawa man’s $1 damages for a broken sidewalk, a Rush county boy ghosting geese and possums, a Neodesha baby found on a frost doorstep, and a Seneca church buying a $2,200 pipe organ. It catalogs mischiefs, games, lawsuits, fires, a court showdown in Leavenworth, and local quips about schools, wages, and stray jokes from Iola to Hutchinson.
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Let the Tariff Alone and Attend to the Trusts
The president and leading Republican senators agree no tariff revision this session. The industrial scene cannot be solved by abstract math, as wheat and tares mingle in American prosperity. Protection benefits many unaffected by trusts, so keep the tariff steady and curb trust abuses instead. The first step is for great corporations to provide wholesome public conduct.
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Chicago
Tariff Debate Cited by Seattle Paper Opinion
Seattle Postintelligencer argues that even if facts contradict theories, Democratic free traders insist on tariff cuts. It notes that a Democratic tariff reduced both foreign and domestic trade, while current protective tariffs boosted exports, challenging calls to always reduce duties.
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Seattle Postintelligencer
Money Coming to Us in Postwar Trade Talk
Davenport Republican quotes accuse previous Democratic and following Republican administrations of sending money abroad to pay for European goods and exporting domestic products, arguing foreign money flows back to the United States amid postwar trade concerns.
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Davenport
Lost Twenty Years in Kokomo Ind Kidney Pills Cure
Anna M Willis of Kokomo Indiana endured twenty years of kidney trouble and pain before being cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills. She credits six boxes, five of which removed her pains, with restoring her ability to live. A quip about a depraved thief follows.
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