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Show was the name of the old home of Martha Washington. Mount Vernon, the home and estate of George- Washington, undoubtedly the most famous shrine in American history, was named after Admiral Edward Vernon of the British navy. conditions exist in the world and that therefore we must take a different attitude on the tariff, we are likely to run into some serious difficulties." Senator Walsh's statement is sane and far-seeing when compared with the theorizing of the free traders, and it furnishes food for thought to those internationalists who hoped to work their will in the new Congress. In spite of the "blah-blah" on the part of the metropolitan press which represents rep-resents international finance, the American Am-erican people are still protection-minded. protection-minded. The "serious difficulties" which Senator Walsh apprehends for a majority lacking comprehension of present day difficulties might easily crystallize in the congressional elections elec-tions of 1934. i TARIFF DISAGREEMENTS. Importers and the international bankers who supported the Democratic Demo-cratic ticket in the 1932 election under un-der the assumption and with the belief be-lief that Democratic victory meant a drastic reduction of tariff schedules and a ccmsecnient strengthening of investments abroad at the expense of American agriculture and industry must be getting some unpleasant surprises sur-prises when they read the tariff debate de-bate in Congress these days. This de- bate indicates that, while the Republican Repub-lican party is still the backbone of the protective tariff movement in the United States, there are a great many Democratic statesmen opposed to sacrificing sac-rificing the American market to the importers in the fond belief that we will somehow get some benefits abroad. One shock must have come to the internationalists in the action of the senate in passing by a vote of 41 to 12 an amendment to the Treasury-Postoffice Treasury-Postoffice appropriation bill confining confin-ing government purchases to American-made goods so far as this is practicable. prac-ticable. Of the 41 votes for the amendment, 23 were furnished by Republicans Re-publicans and 18 by Democrats, showing show-ing the cleavage in the majority party par-ty on the tariff question. As one newspaper writer put it, "common j sense instead of partisanship prevailed." pre-vailed." But there have been other "eye-openers" "eye-openers" for the internationalists on the tariff question. Some of these have come in the stand taken in the debate in Congress on the various tariff measures before that body. There has been much bi-partisan support sup-port given to measures designed to j correct the unfair advantage in our markets of foreign nations which have gone off the gold standard and j I are now flooding the markets with) I cheap goods goods made cheap by i I -starvation wages and the payment of! such wages in "tin money." The amendment to apply the "buy American" movement to government purchases noted above was sponsored ; by Senator Johnson, of California, and it succeeded in bringing a real tariff, split in the majority ranks. Senator' Costigan, Colorado, pleaded wiih his' Democratic bretlven not to join in J this "buy American" move but his J pleadings were in vain, although he j asserted that the "buy American" movement was a tariff in its worst form. When the vote was taken and the protectionists won, Senator Gore,' Democrat, Oklahoma, offered them! his congratulations, declaring in part:, "Protectionism has not only tri- j umplied in its own field, but has crossed the aisle and captured half the members on this side. And that half has gone over, horse, foot and dragoon."' .Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts, stated the case for those Democrats who joined the "buy American" movement move-ment when he said: "1 still consider myself a good Democrat Dem-ocrat after having voted for ibis. As I understand the Democratic doc ritie,. jny party is for a just tariff, and I say lu re an! now Hint unless the j Democratic parly recognizes thai new I |