Class of 1891

Under date of April 25 Ned Dearborn writes: "My daughter's husband, an armyaviator for iS years, finally crashed amonth ago while returning to Washingtonfrom Boston, where he had left Congressman Tobey of New Hampshire. A badlybehaving engine and a 60-mile gale weremore than he could manage."

The recent request of Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, that the Republicans at their convention in Cleveland insert a resolution favoring a reciprocal tariff plank has caused many Republicans to look upon him with horror. In his tariff plank Mr. O'Brien does not desert the historic position of the Republican party in favor of "protection" and the maintenance of high standards of living in this country. But he does insist that the old methods of tariff making are not enough to win back for the United States the foreign markets to which American producers are entitled. In fact, it was these old methods of tariff making which, he said, caused the downfall of two Republican candidates, Taft and Hoover. A recent cartoon in the EveningStar of Washington, D. C., portrays O'Brien in a much wrecked attitude, exclaiming, "And just see what happened to me."

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