The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17
Champ Clark Has Vision
Of Wonderful Growth
in Future.
RESOURCES ONLY
. BARELY TOUCHED
Stream of immigration, He
Thinks Will Become as Great
as That Into West During
Last Half Century-Under-
wood Condemns Repub-
lican Tariff Theory.

New York. December 16.-Champ
Clark, Speaker Of the House of Rep
resentatives, addressing tho Southern
Society of New York, Tonight pre-
dicted that the South one day would
be the most thickly settled portion of
tho United States. and that the great
est growth of tho country "in all de-
sirable ways". would be southwark
Hitherto the most rapid growth of
the country las been in the North, {"
he. said. 1T does not require the pow
ers OF the greatest of the major proph-
cts to predict accurately that while
all portions of the country will con-
tinue to grow for centuries the great
est growth in all desirable ways Will
DC in the South, for the au-sutficient
reason that there is more room for
growth.
no region ever was 80 lavishly
lowered by nature. Her physical re-
sources. scarcely touched as yet are
practically .nexhaustible. The most
sparsely populated portion of our
country, it Will one day be the most
thickly settled. The least wealthy
portion per capita. she bids fair ulti-
mately to be among the wealthiest.
1.-THE stream OF immigration south
ward. which has been rapidly increas-
in6 in the last decade, will become as
great as that which has poured into
the West during the last half-century.
For instance. during the last FIVE
years there has been as much immi-
grafton from Iowa Into Missouri. the
northermost OF the Southern States,
as from the East We must cordially
welcome these Hawkeye Immigrants IS
high class and thrifty citizens"
All In Same boat.
tha
Is the sum total OF all It's parts, Speak
er Clamp continued:
=. The size of the cotton crop con-
Germs The citizen of North Dakota
Just S the size OF the wheat crop con-
Germs the citizens OF Florida The size
of the fish catch OF New England con-
Germs the denizens Of California Just
as the output of oranges concerns the
residents of New England. Speaking
generally. the prosperity of one is the
prosperity Of all. for We are all sur
rounded by substantially the same cir
cnmstances. travelling in the same boat,
headed for the same destiny
That homogeneity Of population SO
necessary 10 national spirit and TO
unity OF purpose. and OF action never
In the history OF the world existed on
so wide scale as 1t does here. our
assimilative faculties have been nut
to severe test in the last seventy
years by the immense army of foreign
ers who have sought our shores But
We have proved equal to that emer-
sency, as we have proved equal to every
emergency in which we have found
ourselves, and II is matter. OF sincere
congratulation that most of the for
eigners have been shaped and formed
and fashioned into good and useful
citizens, many of whom have risen to
n In he I'll n .
patriotic endeavor. An American Is an
American whether he halls from Ari-
zona or from Maine; from Texas or
from Rhode Island"
Condemns Republican Tariff.
Representative Underwood. OF Ala
bama. Democratic leader Of the ma
tional House of Representatives. in his
address condemned the Republican
theory of tariff adjustment The
Kaleidoscope OF political Issues must
and Will continually change with the
changing conditions of our republic"
he said. There is one question that
WAS with us in the Beginning and
Will be in the end. and that is the
most effective, efficient and fair way
of equalizing the burden of taxation
that Is levied by the national govern
ment.
''The Republican party has main
tanned the doctrine that taxes should
not only be levied for revenue" said
he. but also to protect the homo
manufacturer from foreign competi-
ton. or necessity. protection from
competition carrying with it guar
antee of profits.
THE Democratic party favors the
policy of raising It's taxes at the Gus
toms house by tariff that is levied
for revenue only, which clearly ex-
cludes the Idea of protecting the manu-
facturcr's profits . some men as
asrt that the protection of reasonable
profits to the home manufacturer
should be commended instead Of being
condemned, but in my judgment the
protection of any profit must of
necessity have tendency to destroy
competition and create monopoly,
whether the profit protected is reason
able or unreasonable"
Mr.. Underwood explained how 1t is
possible for protected manufacturer
to undersel his foreign competitors
slightly by putting his prices Just be-
low those which the foreigner must
charge because OF the tariff on the ar
ticle. After the American has driven
the foreigners from the field, Mr. I'm
derwood contended. he is enabled to
raise prices to the point established by
homo competition. He denied that the
cost of production in the United States
Is greater than that In other countries;
He admitted that wages paid might be
smaller, but insisted that the cost per
unit of production is less In America
because OF the superior inventive skill
of the American and the better quality
of his Workmanship and machinery.
Protecting IneiIiciency.
ITO protect profits of necessity
means to protect inefllciency." was one
of the Speakers epigrams. TT does
not stimulate industry because n
manufacturer standing behind tariff
wall that Is protecting his PROFITS Is