THE AMERICAN TARIFF CHANGES

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 154, 5 August 1914, Page 11

THE AMERICAN TARIFF CHANGES

DECLINING FLOCKS. The most important happening in the wool year' 1912-13 was the democratic victory iix the United States of America for, after a Republican regime of sixteen years, the Presidential chair of the United States was filled, iu the case of its twenty-eighth occupant, by a ' Democratic President in the person of Thomas Woodrpw Wilson. Similarly, the principal feature of the 19i:M4 season has been the first fruits of the new reign. It has been the triumph of the policy of the open door for wool, meat, and sugar in that country, due'to the foresight, ability, and determination of the new President, who realised that-America, with a population .of close upon 100,000,000 head, demanded that her people-should be given the opportunity of being well fed and well clothed, also that as a manufacturing nation, raA\ T , products should be made