The South and the Tariff

Archive Report

The tariff plank adopted by the Democrats for 1928 at the recent Houston convention differs considerably from that embodied in the platform offered by the party in 1924. In the 1924 tariff plank there was severe criticism of the Fordney-McCumber tariff of 1922 and a declaration in favor of a “tax on commodities entering the customs house that will promote effective competition, protect against monopoly and at the same time produce a fair revenue to support the government”. This latter statement is repeated in the 1928 platform and there is added to it the following sentence, “Actual difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, with adequate safeguard for the wage of the American laborer, must be the extreme measure of every ...

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