The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-10-04
PROPOSED DEMOCRATIC TARIFF
PLANK.
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Resolved, That the policy OF levy
ing tariff on imports equallng the
difference in cost of production in
our own and in foreign countries
has been the policy Of the demo.
cratic party. the policy Of Washing
ton. jefferson, Jackson. Buchanan
and Randall. and, whenever faith.
fully carried out, has been lnya.
riably attended with a high degree
Of national prosperity
Resolved. That the democratic
party. always the friend Of labor, and
Industry and Of business, would wei.
come the responsibility Of readjust.
Ing the existing tariff schedules
strictly In the interest OF labor. OF
Industry and OF business and In full
recognition OF the time honored pol.
Icy of tariff for revenue with in.
cidential protection.
This form OF declaration Is the sug-
gestion OF a prominent democrat liv-
ing in q Southern state. The suggee-
ton is put forward as embodying the
real sentiment OF a very large num-
Der of influential democrats In the
south. Formerly the South was a free.
trade stronghold, but not always. Cal
houn was a protectlonist up to the
time when the South, controlling the
worlds cotton supply. decided that
her best interest lay In selling In
the dearest and buying the cheapest
market. For seventy.five years the
South has clung to that doctrine. But
there is another South, a new South.
South which by actual experience
has learned. what Calhoun did not
know. that II was more profitable to
manufacture its raw cotton into cloth
at home than to ship the staple to
Europe and buy back the woven ia
brio. II is the South that today Is
tIrning toward protection as n build
nr.up OF Southern industry and tre'
mendous factor In South err pros
erity.
A Northern business man travelling
I'm the South writes as follows, unu
der date of setember 20. 1907:
81 have talked carefully about II
narclal conditions here. Thc farmers
have more money than They've ever
had since the war. The general pop
u'ation, farmers, small me. y ants, to
bacco growers. lumbermen. etc. ar,
uniformly prosperous. TSc banks
have over-loaned a bit IN Ge manu-
featuring centers, but the granger
population and banks ar, o. X. s.
WIS collections are proportionatel,
far better, and on much. mucl
bigger business than any year o
their business and more high grad
goods are sold than eIer before TIL,
people of the small towns In whicl
their business lies az not buyinl
only what they need. but luxurie
for the first time since this compan.
began TO do business. All klndre,
lines have the same story to tell.
What the South OF today wants 4
that the tariff shall re let alone
The busy men in manufactures. II
lumber. in sugar, tobacco and ric,
growing all say. Let the tarif
alone" They are willing to agre,
thatthe democratic party shall prom
ise tariff revision along safe and san,
lines, but they are not willing tha
protection shall be revised out o
the tarff. One OF the foremost In
dustrialists OF the central South ha,
lately said: If the race issue coulC
in some way be eliminated from pol
itics the South would now be 'practi
cally solid for protection" Who
knows but that before many years
shall have gone by the future Gibral
tar OF protection will be locate.
south OF Mason and Dixon's line :
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