The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-25

mortgagee's possibility of foreclosure un- der the red flag of. distress has made | these people breathe for the first time | possibly in lifetime, an air of independ- | ence and freedom never before known,
 and at the same time enabled them to | do a better part by their children and | household in the way of education, home comforts and social advantages. there by giving to the world a higher standard
 of citizenship and womanhood. Could
 more be said of any policy? l hardly l think so.
 So much for the concrete facts in the case. The present tariff of & per 1000 feet on rough lumber amounts to an ad Valorem duty of about Il per cent on all importations into this country from 1 Canada and Mexico, while the duty on 1 yellow pine from Alabama and other southern states. going into Canada is 70 per cent ad valorem, or anywhere rom S4.25 to S6 50 per 1000 feet, according to the grade and quality of the material shipped; and vet, on the other hand, the American tariff on Canadian lumber Tn the Payne bill is only 515 per cent, or 9l per cent in the Dingley tariff bill In other words the yellow pine manufact- urer of Alabama and the south mas 10 pay to the Canadian government rom S4. .25 to S6 50 per 1000 feet on all yellow nine he ships into that country, while Ithe Canadiane manufacturers has only to pay a tariff of Il per cent ad Valorem or s per 1000 feet, on the lumber ne ships Into this country, even under the
 Dingley tariff law, and will have 10 pay only 516 per cent ad valorem or Sl per
 1000 feet according to the provisions of
 the Payne tariff bill
 On the other hand, everything the lum- Der manufacturer buys and consumes around his mill that enters intoNthe cost price Of lumber INoduction is protected with a tariff anywhere from "A to f3 ic band and cross-cut saws are protected
 with a tariff of about 4S per cent, the files with which these saws are sharpT ened are protected with tarlH or o4 per cent, his cant-hooks, chains, engnes'
 boilers. shafting, pulleys, belting, steam
 fittings. dry kiln equipment etc, are pro
 tected with a tariff averaging 46 per
 cent; while the western farmer s-oats,
 which he sells the southern lumoerman
 with which to feed his stock Is protect
 ed with an ad valorem tarin or A per
 cent. g per cent on every bushel or
 corn the millman consumes, $4 per ton
 on every bale of hay he purchases, 70
 ner cent on every bushel of wheat, rye
 or barley he uses, 25 per cent on ms
 live stock mules, horses, etc., and so on
 down the list; and yet the poor Jumper
 man only asks II per cent ad Valoren
 nm his rough lumber and Is 'cussed"
 for it.
 Then why compel the southern manu-
 facturer to buy everything he must or necessity have to purchase in the conduct
 of his business in highly proteo1ea market and sell the products or his mlll in A free trade market, in open compe-
 tition with the products of Canada, that are produced largely with Hindoo, Chi- nese and Japanese labor. at much less cost than the American manuracturer must necessarily pay American laoor, and where stumpage is one-third cheaper than in this country? These are facts that must appeal to every reasonap,e' +binlxing man in Alabama and through out the south.
 am free to confess that the last dem- ocratic platform called for the repeal or the tarifr on lumber, timber, wood pulp and all forest products, but that plank in the national democratic platform was only written at the behest or ana ln- spired chiefly by man or lnorolnate ambition to occupy the White House. even though he had to walk over the pros trete form of one of the souths s leading and foremost industries to do so. As a matter of fact, Senator Bacon or Geor-
 oia in the course of a running sdepate in the Senate several days ago, arahhiy stated that political platforms were ol.en ol. made at midnight, when the people were thinking more about the candidates or their choice than they were of the text of any platform that might be brought in all of which is largely true
 In this connection I would like to state that Senators Simmons of North caro- lima and Fletcher of Florida hdNe al- readv made speeches in the Senate Tn
 fa,,oI of the present tariff on lumber, n,boee oninions are concurred in by other southern senators of the democratic iailh and order like Bacon Of, Georsia, 1ala ferro of Florida, Bankhead Of Alapa.aa' Money of Mississippi, Foster ana Mc- Tnrv of Louisiana, Bailey of Texas, Dan ieI and Martin of Virginia, smith or Maryland, Taylor of Tennessee and Payn- fer of Kentucky, as well as democratic senators from other parts or the couh- try. s..4 +t.,
 From a strictly partisan standpoint the Hon Carter Glass, democratic congress-
 a,, iron, the I,vnchburg district and candidate for governor on the denoerallc ticket in the Old Dominion state, hlahes the following statement on thls supject' over his own signature, that IS iosiIa.' convincing, unanswerable' to the punt ana leaves not a leg for those taklns onDoaite views to stand on. Hear him Tor a moment in the following language;
 "As to the nature of the small duty or lumber. it is not a protective tarln in the sense that it adds one tnflp to Inc nrtce of rough lumber to the gen
 ona1 coneumer Nobody in Congress ar out who knows anything about the subject, would pretend to say 'o ',e contrary The duty does not increase inc cost of lumber one farthing to
 ng1e consumer in Virginia or the soutb or to any resident of the ohlteo states outside a narrow strip or zone of coYnnetition on the Canadian boroer. if is distinctly within the democratic doctrine of a tariff for revenue, yield ing as recall the figures. s3,6oO,- 0OO to the federal treasury. IL incl- dentally preserves to Virginia ana th 0 south the lumber markets Tor NeW England and other northern states, easily reached by Canadian Jumper whose people for half century nave grown rich by collecting tariff tribute from the balance of the country ana whose congressman stood out III tne
 House recently for the highest degree of protection for their own prooucts and free trade in the products or otner sections of the country.
 Tn other words, refuse to surren- der the paltry tribute which 1eW northern manufacturers of lumber pay | to the south, while their Congressman
 were intent on exacting greater tribute from the people of my state and sec 1 ton, but I make no concealment of I the fact-indeed, want it distinctly | understood-that in considering the l Payne bill I did not pursue the path
 of a political visionary but followed the course of practical man, who felt | that he sent to Congress to safe- | guard and not to sacrifice the interests
 of his people.
 Had the democratic party in Con 1 nyo wi