Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-04-12
SENTIMENT CHANGING
SOUTH GRADUALLY COMING TO THE
PROTECTION IDEA.
THE DINGLEY BILL is IN FAVOR.
LIKELY TO GET SOME SOUTHERN
VOTES IN THE SENATE.
DinEley Says the Change of
Sentiment Is Not Only Among
Manufacturers, but Also
Among Agriculturists-
Interesting Figures.

Washington, April 11.-(SpeciaD The
Southern sentiment in favor of a protective
tariff is likely tc be quite apparent at
the senate end of the capitol as it was in
the house during the discussions of the
tariff bill. Amendments to the bill increas-
ing the protective rates of duty are being
offered by Southern senators and appeals
are being made from the South to the fin
ance committee and to members of the
senate asking for higher rates than those
| named by the bill as it passed the house.
Cotton. rice. sugar, oranges, pineapples and
other fruits, tobacco, lumber, salt. iron,
| manganese, bauxite and other metals are
| among the items named for which appeals
are being made by Southern men and
Southern interests. Leading Democratic
newspapers in the great Southern cities
comment favorably upon the fact that
Democratic votes from the South were cast
in favor of the bill and that Democratic
members argued in favor of increased pro-
lection upon the products of that section.
Such leading Southern Democratic news
papers as the New Orleans Picayune.
Charleston News and Courier, Richmond
Times, New Orleans Times-Democrat,
Memphis Scimitar. Nashville Banner and
others speak approvingly of the course of
the Democratic statesmen from their sec
tionS who supported the bill in the house
and offer no unfavorabe comment upon
the fact that more than thirty votes from
the Southern states were cast in favor of
the most protective tariff bill which the
country has known for many years. No
protective tariff measure ever received any
such number Of votes from the South as
did the Dingley bill in the house nor has
the present generation witnessed the spec
tacle Of Southern Democratic votes being
cast for protective bill.
growth of the protective sentiment in the
South said Chairman Dingley, of the
ways and means committee. commenting
call this is the first time that Southern
Democrats have voted for protective bill
or expressed the strong sentiments in favor
of a protective tariff which We have heard
in the house and which are now being pre-
sented at the senate end of the capitol in
others. increasing the protective rates of
duty in the pending tariff BILL We have
had Democratic votes from the North for a
protective tariff bill in the past but this
support for the protective idea from the
South is new.
Most assuredly."
Surprising. too?"
mot especially so: no. The development
of manufacturing industries in the South in
the past few years has created protective
sentiment. There are two reasons for this.
First, the desire for the increase of manu-
factures and the direct results therefrom,
and second, the advantage to agriculture
which come from the home manufacturing
industry, The value of farm products is
largely dependent upon proximity to a
market. Farm products are bulky and the
cost of transporting them to a distant mar
he has a market just alongside his farm or
in easy reach, he can make good profits
out of a business which would not be sue
long distance to find Sale for them. The
establishment of manufacturing industries
in the South has thus not only increased
farmer
productions but has greatly diversified
these the products and thus further increased
'Then you look upon the growth Of the
protective sentiment as developing among
Td of
Undoubtedly, A study of the agricult-
ural history and conditions of the various
the value of land and the value of its pro-
ductions averages much higher per acre in
the sections s,l which 4 have & manufaeturing in,
for the products and for diversified produc-
tions. The people of the South are seeing
featuring institutions which have been de-
yeloped in that section in the past few
years. So there is undoubtedly growth of
protective sentiment not alone among those
profiting by the employment which they
people of that section. whose attention IS
DO you look for a continued growth of
YES: The mere effect of this discussion
n men t OF ali nf0pe parties Wheh hane been so
prominently and publicly made, will have
its effect in still further Strengthening and
And does this probably mean an increase
in Republican strength from that section in
congress and in national elections gener-
"Undoubtedly. The Republican vote in
the South has been largely held in check
tent on the color line. Now that there is
disposition to divide on other issues. and
',3 upon the important issue of protection; It
| elections and increased protective senti-
ment 1t will strengthen very materially the
parts of that section. We have seen this
illustrated in the recent elections in which
the Repnblican party carried the Northern
| and elected an unusually large number of
congressman, and with the party divisions
| color will also come fair elections and an
increase in the protective and Republican
strength of that SECTION of the country
tective strength in congress referred to by
Governor Dingley in his remarks is es-
ords Of former Congresses The Fifty
| fourth and Fifty-hfth congresses have con-
|, tanned a much larger number of Republic
ans from the South than any congress
which has preceded them for many years.
| The free trade experiment of four years
| ago, WnlCn proved SO unsatisfactory IN Otn-
| er parts of the country, seems to have been
| equally so in the South since the number of
| Republican congressman elected from that
| section has more than doubled in the past
| two congressional elections. The following
| table shows the number of Republican rep
| resentatives in each of the past ten con-
crosses, from the South, thus covering a
| period of twenty years:
Forty-fifth congress .........................u IL
Forty-Sixth congress ......................... 4
| Forty-seventh congress ......................l2
Forty-eighth congress ...-.-.................l5 Is
forty-nlntn coHSfesS .......................lZ u
Fiftieth congress Observation-Disclosures. 16
Fifty-irst congress ..........................1
! Fifty-second congress .......................4 4
Fifty-third congress Observation-Disclosures. z
Fifty-fourth congress -......................33 .33
Fifty-fifth congress Is
| publican representatives in the Fffty-fifth
| congress the six Southern votes cast by
Democrats and Popuiists for the protective