25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 74, 20 December 1933, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

U.S. Republican Tariff Plank (From “The Dominion,” December 20, 1908) Mr. W. H. Taft, president-elect of the United States of America, speaking at New York, implied that he would veto any Tariff Revision Bill that disregarded the promises made at the Republican National Convention at Chicago. The tariff plank submitted to the Republican Convention urges such revision of any tariff that will give the consumer the benefit of the most favourable prices consistent with the protection of home industries and labour, and declares that duties must equal the differences between the American and the European costs of production, including a reasonable profit to the American producer.

The Welsh Radicals threaten secession from the Government Party in revenge for the Prime Minister’s failure to enforce disestablishment of the Church of Wales.

The Sultan. Abdul Hamid 11. was loudly cheered when proceeding in his state coach to open the Turkish Parliament in the Square of Saint Sophia. Police and military guarded five miles of streets. There were thousands of provincial and Egyntian visitors. Eightysix thousand exiles have returned since the proclamation of the Constitution.