The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-08

natural to one unbiased by selfish con- sideration, MT. Oldfeld arrived to the conclusion that relieving raw materials from tariff duties Is the beginning of sound democratic tariff reform.
 I had never heard of oldheld until he made this speech, but when numerous democratic members called my attention to 1t I got it and read 1t, and then hunted up the man and found him one of the most promising figures in public life. There Is no poppycock in the speech, no scraping of the sky, no set ting of a chunk of fire to the Potomac river. body of water that thousands of brilliant orators of Congress have found stubbornly recalcitrant and ill., manneredly non-combustible.
 II was plain speech, in terse English without a fiounce or furbelow, one that the ordinary citizen can read, digest and assimilate. I wish every cotton planter in the south had heard Oldheld on the tariff and I hope thousands of them will read him. And right now when so many southerners of the Bailey-Marti Simmons type are striving to make a bed for pro- lection to lie on down In the south it is In order to read President Jefferson Davis book in which he shows how sorely th tariff oppressed the south for the aggran- dizement of the manufacturing conlrnunt- ties of the north. He was speakini of ante
 bellum times when protection was mod
 crate and comparatively decent Since
 the war the tariff has cost the cotton
 planters billions that might have been h.
 vested in railroads and other internal i'm
 provements. And there arc southern
 statesmen whose efforts are to perpetnate the enormity.
 Since delivering his speech on the woo bill Mir. Oldfield has written and caused to be printed a catechism on the -aria that Is calculated to make the subject clear to the weakest understanding. Ii ought to be put in the Congressional Rec ord for gratuitous distribution and I doubt not it will be- for to my mind 1t is con Iclusive of the subject. Here is a quota ton:
 After citing Roger O. Mills, William [. Wilson. William R. Morrison, John c. Carlisle Benton McMillin, Clifton K Breckenridge, Roswell P. Flower, Isham tG. Harris, z. B. Vance Daniel ". Voor- hees, James B. Beck, Richard Coke. John H. Reagan, Grover Cleveland and Will liam J. Bryan as democrats who favored free raw materials, he gave the followinu republicans as favoring tariff duties or raw materials: John sherman, Thoma, B. Reed. Julius c. Burrows, Serene F | Fayne, PreSluent Iaft, John D2lZell Albert J. Hopkins. James S. Sherman Reed Shoot Henry Cabot Lodge Josepf c. Cannon. Nelson ". Aldrich, Bois' | Penrose Simon Guggenheim, Isaa; lStephenson and William Lorimer Ther he propounds this question: Gan yot give any particular instance of any of th, distinguished republicans you have jus named expressing opposition to free raw lmaterials?" Answer: Yes, John She- man, in his book entitled Forty Years IT the House, Senate and Cabinet says
 The dogma of some manufacturers that raw materials should be admitted free o lduty is far more dangerous to the policy
 of protection than the opposition of free
 trade, denial of protection on coal, iron
 wood or other raw material will lead tc the denial of protection to machinery. t. textiles. to poettery and other industries
 Exactly. There is the whole case ex.
 pressed by the dearest head for economic. the republican party produced.
 Keep your eye on Oldfield. He n on,
 of the elect.