The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10
Ole Jeffersontan


tea would add 5 cents pound to their price,
and we would be paying $4,700,OOO more for
our tea, in order that our South Carolina
brother might pocket an additional $780,
Would Mr.. Way defend thing like that on
the ground that the beneficiary is a Southern
man? II not, why not! This case is fair
sample Of the others. If it is not Unsuitable
to rob the whole body of tea drinkers to en-
rich the South Carolina man, it is equally in
defenslble to impose tribute on consumers of
cotton fabrics for the benefit of the growers
of Sea-1sland cotton.
But Mr.. Way says that he wants ''the same
protection thrown around our Southern in
dustries that the North enjoys" That sounds
mighty nice. In stump speech, it would
bring loud applause" When Brantley and
the other deserters get home, we will hear lots
of that kind of fap-doodle.
The JEFFERsoNIAN did not single out Mr.
Brantley; he had put himself among the
goats, and the inventory of the herd would
not have been complete without him. AS to
Senator Bacon, we never criticised any man
with greater reluctance. We have long been
his FRIEND and will never cease to have the
highest respect for his ability and character
But we did think that the Senator went dead
wrong when he declared in the Senate that he
did not feel bound by the free-lumber plank
In the Democratic platform. We honestly
thought that he made fatal mistake when he
left the Democratic leader and platform, and
went over to Aldrlch and the Republicans on
the lumber schedule.
But, let us come back to 'the same protec-
ton thrown around our Southern industries
that the North enjoys" Oh, that does sound
so nice, and patriotic and home folksy Who
cares how much we're robbed, so long as the
thief isn't "a ID Yankee" The Northern
Steel Trust is plundering the 9O,OOO,OOO peo-
pie of the Union, and the outrage is madden
ing; but, since we cannot Immediately put a
stop to 1t, we must give the Lumber Trust
hcense-torob also, because some Of the rob-
berS are Southern mem!
We must give the North Carolina Yellow
Pine outfit, and the South Georgia and Flori-
ola moguls, and the Texas Combine the same
opportunities to victimize consumers ''that
the North enjoys"
"The same protection thrown around our
Southern Industries" will enable a few men
like H. III. Tiff and his associates, monopo-
lists of 100000 acres of timber land, to euact
q tribute from every Southern man q0h0 has
to use lumber; but the Southern consumers of
lumber must smile, while being held up, be-
cause the extortioner is catalogued as one of
"Our Southern industries"
The tariff duties on lumber will chiefly
benefit the mill and timber owners of the
great Northwest. People living within reach
of the Canadian mills will have to pay at
least 50 per thousand more for lumber than
they would have to pay, if Canadian lumber
could come across the line free Of duty
To relieve this situation, the Democratic
party gave its formal, emphatic pledge. On
the faith of that pledge, it got votes And
now we are told that the Democrats in office
a0ho ram on that platform and got elected,
have done no wrong in repudiating their plat
form