The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-12
WANTS FREE TRADE
ON LUMBER AND ON COTTON
TIES AND BAGGING.
Senator Tillman Says the Sap Of
Protection is Not Worth What 1t

Costs Democracy.
4 special dispatch to the Colum-
bia Record says Senator Tillman fay-
ors free trade in lumber and will
vote for it. He believes that in the
end Democratic defections from the
declarations of the party platform
will give the victory to those Repub-
licans desiring a duty, but he ex-
presses himself as far from the opln-
ion that such a forecast JustlfleS
Democrats in falling into line with
the party in power. A vote for pro-
tected lumb Der, in his opinion, is a
vote against forest preservation and
also a vote against the claims OF
Democracy to control the house OF
representatives two years hence and
the whole country after President
Taft's term.
whats the use of hurrahing
round the country for the safeguard
ing of our forests" he said, when
you are crying at the same time Tor
duty on lumber that will keep
foreign timber from coming IN
sparing our own trees for the next
generation? You have seen the de-
struction of our forests in the past
few Wears. Vow, Importation os
1umher from Canada would save
some of our trees from being cut
while this duty they are demanding,
keeps the foreign lumber out and
makes us cut down our own 1or-
ests.'
With forests as far away from the
Southern pine fields as Canada SEN
ator Tillman does not believe tns
free Importation of lumber couio
affect the profits of South Carolina
mills. while it might materially lower
the nrice of lumber to the consumer.
AS to who owns the South Carollna
standing timber he is not certain
though he is inclined to agree with
Senator Nelson that a part OF IL at
least is in the hands Of Michigan
cornora tions and holders in the Tar
Northwest. It is through the lnflu-
ence of these Northwestern men that
the price of lumber in South Carolina
would be raised under protective
dutv. though in the local field a
tariff of itself have no such enec1.
"Two-thirds of the white people OF
sonth Carolina" said Mr.. Tillman'
live above Columbia. Nearly all
the yellow pine and every bit of the
loblolly is below Columbia. Now
why should I vote to impose higher
cost upon those people up there when
they want to build houses and
| barns?'
Senator Tillman was sitting in the
room of the committee on the i've
civilized tribes, of which he is chair
man, when I found him to ask about
the tariff. He was Darricaded behind
a pile of books, all of sombre bind
ing the most dashing Of which was
entitled "Tne Romance Of Steel .
volume telling Of the manufacture
os iron in the melodramatic fashion
of a treatise on chemistry.
"I am trying to find out something
about cotton ties" said the senator,
"and. there seems to be a lot OF 1t.
In regard to cotton bagging, there
is apparently reasonable hope that
Senator Aldrich will let that go on
the free list, if the Southern Demo
Gratis work together for that end
, but on ties, while Senator Aldrich
has asked Mr.. Tillman for informa-
tion. he expressed himself as doubt
ing his ability to grant the request
The senator from Rhode Island, said
Senator Tillman, was under the i'm
preston that ties are made chiefly
in Chattanooga, Birmingham and
other centres near the Southern
mines and he felt that ample protec'
ton ought to be accorded these new
manufacturing districts on an article
like ties for which they would have
a large local demand.
1t was to meet that objection that
. Senator Tillman devoted himself to
light literature Of the Romance OF
Steel sort. The information he
found encouraging. Ties, he dis
covered, are manufactured almost
exclusively in Pittsburg and the great
, iron and steel centres of the North
there being only one small plant at
Atlanta. The fact that ties are made
by plants turning out enormous
quantities of other steel goods. all
heavily protected. leads Senator Tlll-
man to hope that Mr.. Aldrich will
consent to a removal of the duty.
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