Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-06-09
ARE FOR PROTECTION.
SOUTHERN CONVERTS TO THE
AMERICAN POLICY.
Louisiana Patriots Express Their
Warm Loyalty to Many of the Prin-
cip1es of Protection as Applied to
State Manufacturing Affairs.


Inc pOllcy OF lIOleClloA W A0lle Ia
Dor and industries found MAJ fervent
advocates among the Demot rats who
almost entirely made UP the member
ship of the Louisiana constitutional
convention. They didn't call it by that
name, but it was undiluted protection
Just the same. At meeting of the
Committee on Taxation, at which
Lieut. Gov Snyder presided as chair
man, the subject under consideration
was the exemption of manufacturers
from taxation. Some very able and ell
fectiye arguments We're presented III
favor of such exemption. The New Or
leans Item reports the debate as fol-
lows:
Judge G. E. Fenner was the first to
address the committee. He first detained
the wonderful growth in wealth and popu-
lation Of those sections IN which manufac-
turing enterprises are fostered, encour-
aged and sought after, citing especially
the wonderful prosperity of the New Eng
land section, whose natural staple pro-
ducts are granite and ice. He then fur
nished statistics to show the marked evil
dences of increasing and steadily growing
encoura gements to manufacturing enter
prises were held out under the constitu-
ton Of 1879, and the further encourage
nle<t accorded under the extension Of the
exemptions under the constitutional
amendment submitted to and adopted by
the people in 1888.
Col. II. G. Hester presented an elabo-
rate array to show the strides that this
State and city has made in manufactur-
ing enterprises through the fostering in
fuence of favorable provisions in the
State constitution. The committee was
also addressed by Messrs. Maurice Stern
and A. A Maginnis in behalf of the cot
ton manufacturing industries.
SO far as we know, not one Of these
able and influential gentlemen who dis
coursed so eloQueut'y on the benefits
| that have accrued to the people and
State Of Louisiana from the exemption
Of manufacturers from taxation is pub
licly identified with protection as ma
| tional policy. Yet each and every one
of them is q practical protectionist
| Exemption from taxation operates d.
rectly as a bounty or subsidy voted by
| the State to induce and encourage the
establishment Of manufacturing enter
priseS. and is, in effect, a direct tax
upon the non-manufacturing element Of
the State 1t is far more direct tax
than is protective tariff, for the latter
| is tax which is paid in great part by
| the manufacturers Of foreign countries
who send goods to the United States to
sell in competition with goods pro-
duced by our domestic manufacturers.
The kind of protection thus warmly
| favored by the Louisiana Democrats Is
sound and sensible as far as it goes,
| but it would not go very far toward
supporting and encouraging home man
ufactures if it had not been REINFORCED
for the past forty years, less four years
| of Cleveland Wisconsin, by the ma
tional policy Of a protective tariff
which secures the home market to the
| home manufacturer.
To be entirely just and consistent the
Louisiana Democrats should align
themselves with protection as na-
tional system. If they only knew it,
! those gentlemen have not far to go to
| land themselves squarely in the ranks
Of the party, which extends practical
and Indispensable assistance to every
| State or community which seeks to de-
velop it's industrial resources and posi-
bilitieS.