The American Tariff Messages from America continue to show that
opinion there is disturbed by the which has been stirred up by the new American tariff. Last week thirty-eight protests had been received from foreign countries and since then several others have arrived. An aspect of the tariff-mongering which is partly tragic and partly comic is that the enmities and disappointment created among Americans themselves prevent internal satisfaction from being secured at the price of offence to nearly all other countries. President Hoover undoubtedly gave his promise to help the farmers in the belief that the Protective system need not be appreciably enlarged. He believed that the new tariff would be mainly an agri- cultural measure. The scramble at Washington, however, has ruined that comfortable hope. The farmers are now saying that although new duties in their favour enable them to sell better, other new duties make everything which they must buy more expensive. On the whole they are inclined to think that they are " down " on the transaction.
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