AMERICA'S IDEALS.
WELFARE OP MANKIND. THE TARIFF SCHEDULES. :Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press.Assn.i (Australian and N.Z. raoie Association.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. President Harding sent a letter to Mr. Frank Mondell, Republican leader of the House, apparently the beginning of personal participation in the coming political campaign. President Harding declared : ‘‘The inauguration of a policy of flexibility and elasticity of the tariff schedules sets an example which the commercial world will accept as a constructive foundation on which to base their commercial policy. We need to encourage intimacy and an' understanding of the social, economic, and'political family of nations recognised by all the intelligence of "the world. By tariff flexibility wo are offering the means of true unification and solidarity of the industrial civilisation and the solution of some of tile most perplexing economic problems confronting the nations. The last thing in our thoughts is aloofness from the rest of the world. We wish to be helpiul, neighborly, and useful, and to use our strength for the general welfare of mankind.” *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15955, 17 October 1922, Page 3
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