Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-15


enue tariff He models his tariff views on
the opening paragraphs OF the famous
Walker report of 1S46:
THAT no more money should be COL
lected than is necessary for the wants
istered.
article above the lowest rate which will
yield the largest amount Of revenue:
THAT below such rate discrimination
may be made, descending in the scale of
duties; or. for imperative reasons, the
article may be placed in the list Of those
free from all duty.
THAT the maximum revenue duty
should be imposed on all luxuries.''
Not only does he adhere to these princi-
pies, but 1t Is his expressed belief that
the south generally agrees with him. Mr..
Underwood recently said:
lustration OF the situation in the south
regarding the tariff. When 1 began the
practice OF law In Birmingham in 1884 the
population was 5000. the city had five
paving or electric lights. In 1894. when
! ran for Congress against Truman IL.
Aldrich, the republican candidate. he ar
gued that Birmingham needed protection
and a representative who would vote for
it. followed the position OF Grover
Cleveland on the tariff and ! won, but
the fight was a savage one Today Br-
mingham has. according to the last GEN.
sus, $4,000 citizens. an increase of 2o4.4
per. cent in the last decade. 1t is the
100000 and also Of the cities of greater
population Today Birmingham's annual
pay rolls amount to $50.0OO.OOO. 1t has
nine raiWsXs 14s miles Of street car
a yearly pig-iron production Of 2,OOoWO
tons, a coal output Of 100000 tons, a
coke production of 100000 tons. and
20, 600 900 tons OF steel are made each
year.
"The Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany-or tho United States Steel Corpora
ton, in other words-controls one-third of
the iron and steel product in the district.
holdings are in my district. A larger soft
coal deposit than Europe has furnishes a
handy fuel. Tho cost of assembling the
raw material at the blast furnace In Bir-
mingham is 50 cents q ton. compared
with IS and So a ton in Pittsburg.
y 4
Il give these figures to show the indus
tries Of Birmingham. and from their
magnitude and
Constituency Prefers character one
ME might suspect a
0eVeAu0 AoAAA' protection SEN
timent like that in Pittsburg. But, as a
matter Of fact. three-fourths of my con-
stituency prefer q revenue tariff to pro-
tective tariff When I was first elected
to Congress- Birmingham had never ex-
ported goods. 1t shipped its pig-iron
north at a freight cost Of So to S. a ton
Now it manufactures it at home. and If
the north wants to compete with US at
home then the north must pay the
Srsisht charges and suffer that diSad-
vantage. We have found that We can
compete successfully with tho Germans
and tho British In their homo markets.
and we are no longer afraid that they
could compete with US In our home mar
kets. Tho experience of Birmingham,
believe. Is q fair demonstration Of the
advantage the new industrial south has
In production over the north and over
the world. Why should the south develop
q protection sentiment? II there Is any
below Mason and Dixon's line 1t is
sporadic and very local.
Mr.. Underwood has said that he favors
q revision OF the tariff by separate bills
for separate schedules. and II the event
justifies his opinion there will be no