The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-05-24

termined TO have harmony in the
party, but most Of them seem TO real
ize they must fight for it.
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Farmers Unprotected.
1t is perhaps not generally known
that there was imported into the Uni.
ted States during the fiscal year 1906,
7O,S79,1779 pounds Of cotton of the
value of s1O,S7S, 433, which makes the
price Is $40 cents a pound in the
country from which imported. 1t is
estimated that there will be imported
from Egypt alone this year about
115,0O0 bales of cotton which it will
cost about $1O,OOO,OO0, as the Egyptian
cotton being long staple of the sea-
island variety, it sells for a much high
er price than our upland cotton. This
imported cotton only completes with
our sea-island product, and as there is
not sufficient of that quality raised
here to supply the demand, it is proba-
BILE that the price of the home product
is not reduced by these imports.
AS there is no tariff on cotton the
Southern planter is not protected
from competition, but as he is now
receiving fair price for his product,
with rising market, he is making
money.
The Republican theory of protect
ing the wheat farmer with a tariff
tax of rs cents bushel is shown, by
the low price Of wheat during the past
year, to be useless, because no prod
uct can be protected from competition,
by placing a tariff on it, of which
there is a surplus that must be sold
abroad. Our surplus Of both cotton
and wheat must be sold in the mar
kets of the void in competition with
the surplus of other countries and the
demand in those markets regulates
grown and wherever sold.
The tariff tax on wheat was not in
cluded in the Dingley law to protect
the wheat farmer, but as deceptive
snare to lure him to continue to vote
the Republican ticket; and the Republi-
can leaders who enacted tariff on
wheat knew they were trying to de-
ceive the wheat farmer when they put
it into law. They would have like
wise placed a tariff tax on cotton to
try and deceive the cotton grower,
but as these were all Democrats such
a tariff tax would have been political
ly useless.
The growing political independence
of the farmers of the wheat-growing
states has been brought about by
their discovery that protection does
not protect the farmer, but does i'm
post a heavy tax on him by the high
prices that the tariff protected trusts
charge for what be buys. Those in
telligent farmers who have always
supported Democratic policies know
this and now their Republican neigh
bors are also having their eyes
opened.
Boss Cox Rules the Republican Roost.
The Republican nominees for Pres
ident and Vice-President have been
decided upon by President Roosevelt
as Taft and Hughes. 1t is interesting |
to know that Boss Cox of Ohio has
by acting with the President been
able to bring about this happy family |
by backing his fellow
townsman for the nomination. It's a |
cold day when "Coxey old boy gets
left in a political deal and he is now
In fair way to take the place of my |
dear Hartman as welcome guest
at the White House Politics GER
.ainly do make strange bedfellows.
Is another reorganization of the
cabinet impending. The report that
Secretary Root has ideas Of his own"
md has therefore become distasteful
o the President and that Secretary
3onaparte is paying but little atten-
ion to the business of his depart
nent, is the way changes are gener-
lily heralded in advance.