The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06

Tn the debate of the Payne-Aldrich tariff in the United States Senate the summer of 1909 William O. Bradley, Kentucky republican and a successor in that body of James B. BecL and John
 G. Carlisle. delivered himself of the following:
 "I plead not only for Kentucky. but for the entire south : . The south needs nrotection on her lumber, coal iron. rosin, turpentine, four-spar' hemp tobacco and other interests"
 That is a confession of inferiority that is perfectly logical and perfectly natural from the standpoint Of re- publican, whose idea is, not only the taxation of one citizen for the oenent of another. but that we shall be maoe hermit nation, producing for our selves alone and consuming what we nroduce, for that is what protection lfn- niles and all it implies. l say coming from MT. Bradley that preachment IS weirhty; but when Bailey of Texas, or simmons of North Carolina, or Martin of Virginia. or Smith of Maryland or any one of that set, breaches it, or rather practices it, what hollow mock cry 1t IS. let tHcy SoiiiO "'i speech, protesting superlative democ- racy. paying tithes of mint and anice for cummin, but they invite to whi,eo
 sepulchre. Did this republican speak for the south? If so, let us all turn republican.
 Now. in the older day the old south
 was never a hypocrite. She kept the faith. She stood for the compact She supplicated the senior partner or 'he firm to obey the terms of the co-part- rership. and when her petition was re- fused. she sought to dissolve the hrm' ano the struggle to that end was as glorious as it was heroic. Shall that record be smirched by an advocacy or the William O. Bradleyism nave cuoted, and the Joseph w, balleyism that 1t is? That is the issue oerore the south. though Ben Tillman expressed It
 more forcibly in his blunt, "As long as the stealing is going on l want my share for South Carolina.
 And the south has her share Of the responsibility for the Payne tariH. raiIy I saw Jonathan P. Deliver, mag nificent in his splendid fight for the
 reonle. drive Nelson W. Aldrich to
 stress. and daily a life boat was launched and manned from the demo- cra tic side at the signal of distress ana
 monolopy prevailed As a democrat was indignant; as southern man was humiliated. It is history known of all men. The south is in great meas ure responsible for the present tari1' But for the assent of southern demo- cratic senators the Payne-Aldrich tariff in its nresent form could not have been ena cted.
 But the worst of 1t is that the thihs of protection for southern products IS as false in economies as It IS corrupt
 in morals. It is with proud dlsdaln that the south pays her part of the pen sion appropriation, and she carries the burden as though it were a aFfeather, be- c.usA every cent of it is tribute to southern valor exploited in a war or four years against what was practically inc world in arms. But protection" works A hardship on the south many field more onerous than the pension fund. When the late zeb Vance, in
  Hoar, reproached Massachusetts as
 puuper that North Carolina was taxed
 to support, he spoke the literal truth
 for if somebody gains by protection
 some other one must foot the bill.
 Now then let me argue little. Ihe
 south is clamoring for manufactures. bailey, Martin and simmons propose 50
 grow them in the hothouse of protec- tion. It can't be done. This country IS
 already over-supplied with that sort or thnfg. The manufactures we nave can more than fill the domestic demands, and they sell their surplus abroad TOT
 what Is will fetch. The one and oniy vay to establish manufactures at tne south is to go to free trade pasis' oI as nearly that as the demands or .he tressu will allow. I mean the free trade that will allow our mills to worK for the whole world and not tie them down to the home market. Adopt the I,nrlish idea of tarih taxation ana we will conquer a thousand neutral mar lkets now closed to us and when VI
 shall have so conquered them q searcn
 warrant will not find single pro'ec
 tionist among the manufacturers ol America. Every English manufacturel
 is a free trader. Why? Because ne | " orks for the world and trades with the
 world Every American manufactures
 lis q nrotectionist. Why? Because ht