Archive Report
Archive Report
Tariff Reciprocity and the Republican Platform
Amild Sensation was created in political circles last month when Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, announced his intention of attending the Republican National Convention to urge adoption of a platform plank in effect endorsing the reciprocal tariff policy of the Roosevelt administration. The plank proposed by O'Brien on April 10 formally extolled the traditional Republican principle of protection, but in other respects it conformed closely with the tariff and foreign-trade views vigorously championed during the last three years by Secretary of State Hull and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. The chairman of the Tariff Commission, a Massachusetts Republican, was appointed by President Hoover late in 1931 to fill the unexpired term of Henry P. Fletcher, ...