The Globe-republican., 1902-01-30
NEEDS OF THE SOUTH.
SIGNS OF AN ECONOMIC WEAKENING
PLAINLY VISIBLE
De1nocratIe Newspapers Are Beginning
to Consider the Value the Principle
of Protection Applied Southern
Industry Agriculture.


sign when Democratic newspapers in
that part OF the country fall to discuss
ing tariff matters as related to the in
terests and welfare of their own peo-
PIE That is what is now going on. It
should be kept up Southern people
political cues from Republican newspa-
Pers, but they are willing to receive
argument when advanced by journals
Of their own political faith In this
way they are ready to absorb some
new ideas the tariff question-ideas
new to them. but very old and very
strongly IN favor in other parts of the
country
A considerable portion OF the Demo-
cratic press OF the South seems to have
awakened to the fact that the Repub-
ican doctrine of protection to domes-
tic labor and industry is worth While /
considering, in spite of the fact that it |
is Republican doctrine These newspa- |
pers have begun to suspect that the |
protective tariff is not sectional affair |
not, as Calhoun used to preach, after |
he turned free trader. a device for the |
enrichment of the North at the expense
of the south, but policy which builds
up and benefits all parts of the coun-
| try. We find evidences OF this crafty
| ing discovery in q recent issue of the
| Charleston News and Courier, a rock
ribbed Democratic paper, as follows:
| The Louisiana delegation it need
not be said, is wholly consistent with
itself in supporting the application OF
the Dingley tariff to the products of
the foreign Philippines, and it is right
besides There is no justice in the ag-
ricultura1 sugar interests of the South
and West being butchered to make
reciprocity holiday for the manufacture
ing interests of the East And the del
egations from Western beet states Will
doubtless be forced to be of the same
mind. Let well enough alone; if
the holy tariff must be scaled, let it be
scaled even.''
Commenting on this expression the
New Orleans Item says:
This is in line with Senator McLau-
rims views and indicates that since
South Carolina has become the fore
most cotton manufacturing state of the
South, her views are getting back to
those entertained by John c.. Calhoun
before the days of slavery agitation.
And yet, notwithstand ding the necessity
for a protective duty to defend and
build up our cotton mills, we find ev-
cry Democrat in the house except three
Louisianians voting to break down the
tariff wall and let the products of q
hundred fertile islands and ten mil
| lions of cheap Iaborers into the United
States in competition with our sugar
| and cotton
The Item then proceeds to remind
! the Democrats of the Southern states
f that they are badly and wrongly repre-
scented on the tariff question in con
r gress. 1t points out that the cOtto1
! grower is as much interested in q pro
tective tariff as the sugar grower
Even with the present 40 per cent dut,
| on cotton goods there is an impOr
from foreign mills CT fifty million dol
lars worth of cotton goods annually
If this tariff were removed every cot
ton mill OF the South would go to ruiz
< and the labor which has been collecte
= by them in comfortable and prosperOu
a villages would be scattered to tn
: wind AS soon our market is lief
e open to the free competition OF Grea
Q Britain and Germany the mills of Eu
o rope would fix the price of cotton, an
d our friends would then see the cotto
/, planter not nearly, but entirely, in tn
n hands of the sheriff How much cotto
the Philippines can grow is not ye
: known but it is certain that it can b
h grown in those islands with native an
d Chinese labor, easily as it is no
n grown in China In the olden days VI
| used Nankin, nankeen, as it We
called in this country, for clothin
and with the tariff wall removed "
may again find it cheaper TO set co
3 ton goods from Nankin and Mani1
The New Zealander, casting his ne
= from the ruins of London bridge. WI
- looked upon as an amusing absurdi
Of Nacau1ey's, but it is not beyond II
:, bounds OF credu1ity to imagine tt
- slant-eyed Manilans selling sugar al
= | cotton
n Quite in the same vein the New o
IN | leans .'Picayune, stanch Dem
cratic newspaper. resents the action
Southern Democrats in Congress in T
ftrsing to act with Louisiana's repT
sentatives in defending Southern agl
cultural and Industrial interests again
the unfair competition of cheaper lab
in the Philippines. in Cuba. or an
where else Says the t-Picayune'-
Elf raw sugar were allowed to coz
in from abroad free of duty, the sug
producers of Louisiana and the We
not being able to pete With t
sugar of Europe and the tropics. ma
with pauper labor, would be driven c
| Of business; but since the raw srg
as It Is imported, has to be refined
order to TT It for use, t would get
the sugar Trust two Gems cheaper; I
there Is 10 evidence that it wos
! reach the consumers any cheaper t.
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