The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-25

ton, although Chairman Payne and
Speaker Cannon ehampioned it, and it
was rot included in the BILL
1t is said around the Capitol that
the three states most favored in the
new law are Massachusetts,, Pennsyl-
vania and California The keystone
state was represented powerfully by
Representative John Dalzell of Pitts
burg, member of Ways and Means,
and Senator Penrose, of Philadelphia,
was member of Finance. Both served
on the Conference Committee. They
were able to take splendid care of the
iron and steel and other industries of
their state. Very little, however, has
been said about the many good things
Pennsylvania gets away with Neither
has much of anything been said about
the fine way California came off, That
state industries are largely agricul-
tural and especially in the raising of
lemons, oranges, olives, raisins, prunes
and SO on. Although far removed from
the markets of the East and handi-
capped by high freight rates California
has been given protection adequate
to keep out European competition. The
duty on lemons, for instance, has just
been raised by the terms of the new
law, from l cent a pound to ~ cents
pound so that lemons from Sicily
may not compete with lemons from
Southern California. Because of this
special brand of protection, which Cal
ifornia has been able to obtain, in
considerable part because Representa-
tive Needham, of Modesto, is a mem
Der of Ways and Means, and Senator
Flint, of Los Angeles, is member of
Finance. that state is assured to the
Republican column for many years to
come. Naturally, under the eircum-
stances the many thousands of fruit
gfowers in California back the Re
publican party and it's protection doe
trines.
Illinois, one of the leading manufac
turing states of the union, on the other
hand, has come in for no tariff denun-
citation although that state is the re-
cipient of many tariff favors. Her
interests were looked after by Repre-
sentative Boutell. of Chicago, a men,
Der of Ways and Means, and by Sena-
tor Cullom, of Springfield, of the FL
nance Committee.
So it narrows down TO the prairie
states, in the main with comparatively
little manufacturing, that have thun-
dered the charges of sectionallsm so
forcful1y. Those states wanted free
lumber The South and the Pacific
Coast and New England joined in put
ting a duty of 1925 upon lumber and
but for the President would have made
the duty $3.50 Those states wanted
a duty upon hides. which are produced
bv their fat cattle. The President in
sisted upon free hides and won. That
was exactly what number of the man
ufaeturing states. with numerous shoe
factories, wanted. It was not the fault
of New England, but all the same the
granting of free hides to comply with
the President s demands, has accentua-
ted the western hatred of that thrifty
section along the North Atlantic 1t
was worth noticing, moreover, that
Vermont. small state, was little CON
sidered in that connection, although 1t
actually has about 100000 more cat
tie than Idaho. whose Senators were
foremost in demanding that there
should be a duty upon hides.
There was another most vigorous
outerv of sectionalism It came from
the South and was voiced up to the
very last because cotton bagging was
not put upon the free list as the Sen
ate had voted. Much as the Democrat
ie Senators clamored against it, they
are not altogether sorry that the House
stoutlv refused to put cotton bagging
upon the free list, for it furnishes them
e-Iard;5 POLITICAL ARGUMENT which
will go far toward preventing Repub-
lean inroads in that section. In their
private conversations these Southern
ers have made no secret of the politics
in the cotton bagging item.
The South, it is claimed. pays about
s650000 annually on account of this
duty Of six tenths of one per cent a