Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-05-01
Florida Democratic Senator Pleads
For Duty On Southern Products.
VOICES MS DISGUST
Sheep and Goats Mixsd-0emeerats
| Make Republican Speeches and Re.
. pubiieans Democratic spseehss-Not
Trough Enough For the Hogs.
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Senator Fletcher o: Florida toda!
spoke In advocacy Of the retention o
the tax On humber now provided b!
the Dingley bill. on long staple cottoI
and other Southern products. hi
favored a tariff for revenue only.
How would you cherish a neigh
bar." asked Mr.. Fletcher who woui'
sandbag all industries OF the countr!
In order that his constituents migh
have protection for his manufactures
and yet pay free prices for all M
supplies?'
yellow pine. said the senator wal
found only in Democratic states, bu
he wished that fact to be no argu
ment against permitting It to be TAX
ed for revenue SO that it might re-
ceive the benefit OF any incidental pro-
lection that would come to IT,
Saw Mill Men cianoring.
Declaring that the sharpest com
petition exists among the dealers IN
lumber, Mr.. Fletcher said that free
lumber would bring ruin to many peo
pie in the South. There were. he
said 400 saw mills in Florida employ
ing Il. 900 men and all are asking Tor
the duty ON humber provided In the
Dingley law.
The mills" said Fletcher. ARE in
q position to force down the price OF
domestic cotton whenever they like.
and the farmer is at their mercy SO
long as they can lay In q supply OF
foreign cotton
Cotton In Danger.
England, he said. is making vast
improvements in the valley OF the Nile
region TO monopolize the long staple
cotton industry Of the world, and for
this reason the tariff became an I'm
portant matter for the cotton pro-
ducers. Making a strong plea for the
Of Southern products. he
insisted that there should be no Sec
tional influences in determining what
should receive the benedt
Of the tariff.
Senator McCumber Of North Da-
kota spoke. holding that no tarih
should be levied upon iron. coal, oil
or timber. His argument was directed
principally to the securing Of free
lumber.
Sheep and Goats Scrambled.
Mr.. McCumber contended that the
Southern Democrats are making
stronger appeals for protection than
the Republicans Of the old school.
and Senator Tillsnan interrupted him
to say: I'VE are getting so badly
mixed here that it Is hard to tell the
sheep from the goats. and am
afraid that before We get through.
there won't be trough enough for all
the hogs to get their scraps"
Senator Tilfman said some Republi-
can members were making speeches
In accordance with Democratic prin-
ciples. while some Democratic mem
beers were delivering excellent Re-
publican speeches. He declared that
the pretense for the protective tariff
was to encourage infant industries.
and made q comparison with the
farmers method for raising pigs,
ttelp For Little Pigs.
Young pigs, he said. need q little
help about weaving time. and the
farmer feeds them. That. said Sena-
TOR Tillman. Is protecting an infant in
dustry. but the good farmer. he con-
stops feeding the pigs when
there is NO longer any profit in rails
ing them by that method.
ADDlving his comparison to the steel
industry Mr.. Tillman argued that the
United States Steel Company can
compete In the market for steel rails
and ether steel manufactures.
Yet Carnegie and Schwab and Cory
and Gary and that crowd have in
fuence enough" declared Mr.. TILL
man, TO have high rates Of duty re-