Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-06-17
ARE FOR PROTECTION.
SOUTHERN CONVERTS TO THE
AMERICAN POLICY.
Louisiana Patriots Express Their
Warm Loyalty to Many of the Prin-
ciples of Protection as Applied to
State manufacturing Affairs.
Should Line On with US.

SA1ONANA 4SALlS UP Wtts1 U.s.
The policy of protection to home la
Dor and industries found many fervent
advocates among the Democrats 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 In At Il meeting of the
Committee on Taxation. ut which
Lieut. Gov. Snyder presided as chair
Il the subject under consideration
was the exemption of manufacturers
from taxation. Some very able and ef-
fcctive arguments We're presented in
favor of such exemption. The New Or
leans Item reports the debate as fol
lows:
Judge c. Il. Fcl.ier was the first to
address the committee. He first detailed
Tie wonderful growth in wealth and popu-
iation OF those sections in which manlfac-
turing enterprises are fostercd, cncour-
aged and sought after. citing especially
the wonderful prosperity of the New Eng
land section, whose natural staple pro-
duets are granite and ice. He then fur
nislled statistics to show the marked evil
dcrccs of increasing and steadily growing
prosperity in this section since the first
encouragement to manufacturing enters
priscs We're held out under the constitu-
ton of 1879, and the further encourage
ment accorded under the extension of the
exemptions under the constitutional
amendment submitted to and adopted by
the people in 1883.
Col. III. q. Hester presented an clabo-
rate array to show the strides that this
State and city has made in manufacture
ing enterprises through the fostering in
iluencc of favorable provisions in the.
State constitution. The committee was
also addressed by Mcssrs. Maurice Stern
and y. y. MagiInis i'll behalf Of the cot
ton manufacturing industries.
So far as we know, not one Of these
able and influential gentlemen who dis
conrsed ST eloqueut..y OF. 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 Il na-
tional policy. Yet each and every M
of them is practical protectionist.
Exemption from taxation operates iii
rectly as Il bounty or subsidy voted by
the State to induce and encourage the
establishment of manufacturing enter
prises. and is. in effect, IL direct tax
upon the non-lnanuf lcturing element OF
the State. 1t is Il far more direct tag
than is Il protective tariff. for the latter
is IL tax which is paid III grea 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.
u%factures If it had not been REINFORCED
for the past forty years, less four years
of Observation-Disclosures by the na-
tional policy of a protective tariff
which secures the home market. to the
home manufacturer.
To he entirely just and consistent the
Louisiana Democrats should align
themselves with protection as n ma
tional system. If they only knew it.
those gentlemen have not far to so to
lind themselves suuarely in tile ranks
Of the party, which extends practical
and Indispensable assistance to every
State or community which seeks to de-
relop its Industrial resources and posi-
bilities.