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Show against the disastrous competition of foreign labor. The proposal, as Mr. Hoover said, is to subject our tariffs to "international "interna-tional agreement," notwithstanding that from Washington's day to this it has been a firm American policy that "tariffs are solely a domestic question in protection of our own people." Our home-grown internationalists and doctrinaire free traders have been trying to force this nation into many unwise and dangerous paths, and this latest proposal is quite consistent with their general policy. Special agreements with certain countries have caused serious trade wars in the past. Equality of trade, on the other hand, has been promoted by the many treaties now in force granting to other nations the same treatment we may accord to "the most favored nation." Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. TARIFF STILL AN ISSUE. "Mr. Hoover says there has never been a time when tariff protection was more necessary to the welfare of this country. On this issue the repub-Pcan repub-Pcan party may safely take its stand before the people, who will choose between be-tween those who would break down the bulwarks by devious devices and those who are pledged to maintain ; these defenses for American industry and labor." Philadelphia Public Ledger. In his vigorous veto message sending send-ing the democratic tariff bill back to congress, where the house failed to override his action, President Hoover may be considered to have sounded an important keynote of the 1932 campaign. It was not that the President took any note of the political implications involved in. this impossible gesture of the low-tariff partisans. But there wns little else for him to do but reaffirm re-affirm his allegiance to the protective protec-tive system which was attacked in the measure vetoed, and which will be attacked again by the darlings of the internationalists in the democracy's high command. Sponsors of the democratic tariff bill proposed actually to pull the props from under the American protective pro-tective system which is the last line of defense against a destructive inundation in-undation of competitive merchandise produced in other countries; the last line of defense of American labor |