Springfield weekly Republican

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new election law, all subject to ap

proval in turn by the military gov

ernment, by a constitutional conven

tion and by the Dominican Con

gress. An adaptation of the Cuban

constitution’s “Platt amendment” is

presumably to be expected. We

seem to be in for the actual guard

ianship of the gjpaller island as well

as of the larger one and it will be

well to have the status on a sure

and recognized footing. The four

years of forced military rule, even

if without the suspicion attached to

it that the similar rule in Haiti has

aroused, leaves a bad taste. The

sooner we can be over with this kind

of intervention the better.

Alliance of Cotton Grower and

Wheat Grower

This session of Congress has al

ready demonstrated the growing

political power of the western ag

ricultural interests in obtaining

legislation. When they combine

with the agricultural interests of

the South, as they did last week in

the House in parsing the emergen

cy high tariff bill on farm products,

they are invincible. This success of

the two sections when united is a

mere hint of the dominant position

they might hold in promoting what

ever interest was common to both.

It is not so very long ago that

the representatives of the western

and southern producers of food

stuffs and raw materials complained

that republican tariffs were framed

for the special benefit of eastern

manufacturers. That conviction was

the root of the outcry against

schedule K and other textile sched

ules of the Payne-Aldrich law. The

late Senator Dolliver of lowa in his

attacks on Aldrichism 10 or 11

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Springfield weekly Republican. (1920). Springfield, Mass., 1920-12-30. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83020847/1920-12-30/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Springfield weekly Republican, 1920-12-30.