Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-08-17
THE SOUTH IN CONGRESS.

An industrial publication that prides itself
on its closeness of touch with all southern in
terests, its sympathy with southern sentiment
and its superior knowledge of men, women and
things southern has Of late brought itself into
state Of mind wherein it has be- moved to O.
clare that the senator's and reproSentatlN cS
congress standing for southern states and
sttuencies no longer represent the attitude of
the southern people on the tariff. The SOUTH it
says, has grown away from and beyond its poll
ticans- the latter no longer respond to the spirit
Of the times. In the metamorphosis from a
strictly agricultural community to one OF manu-
facturlng-the productive capacity OF which
more than equals the combined products of the
farms and the mnes-the south has suffered
itself to be represented by politicians who have
not changed with the country but who cling to
the south Of tradition, this exponent of
southern sentiment charges. And it suggests
that the time has come for them to wake up and
discover what the south needs and wants. This
criticism from unusual quarter is set down
by the Washington Post as impressive but not
altogether deserved 1t says:
The work OF the extra session in the house,
if fairly indicative of the statesmanlike quail
ties of these men, does not show that they ara
proceeding regardless Of the interests of their
section Search the legislative record in vain
for single instance where the south has not
been excepted from the ruinous workings of Gar.
if rates Scan the farmers free list bill. If
you will, for among the hundred articles OF
manufacture affected that is made to any extent
in the south Just how the southerners hypno.
TIED their party colleagues from the north lut0
voting for that monumental piece of sectional
discrimination has never been explained The
wool revision hits Texas growers; but can
the south make a small sacrifice, seeing that the
blow falls elsewhere with hundredfold force?
Now comes the cotton schedule, which on its
face has the aspect OF square deal at last.
But really how much does the -cottoG-
goods business Of the south suffer in cOmparl-
son with the handicap that the bill puts the
north? Isn't it worth while to hand New En.-
land lemon of such acdity, thought 1t
does do some hurt to northern capital doing
business in the south Z"
This is all highly interesting-but about 90
per cent of it is purely academic. Does any
intelligent southener northerner or anybody
else imagine that the wool, the farmers free
list and the cotton bills were framed by the
Underwood committee and passed by the house
with serious purpose of their being enacted in
to law and approved by the presidents We're
the senate democratic, like the house, and were
there democrat in the White House. would any
such tariff bills ever have been sent across the
capitol from house to senate? Never! Northern
democrats under existing conditions and circum-
stances perfectly willing to be 'hypno-
tzed by their party colleagues from the SOUTH
for they knew full well that the bills would
never become law-were drawn with deliberate
purpose that they should not become law
Whenever a tariff revision bill promising
final enactment and approval comes up for dis
cllssion i'll the house. it will then be time to
scrutinize the attitude Of southern representa-
tives toward it. Then and then only can it be
disclosed whether or not their section has out
grown them.