Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-04-04
OFTEN A LOCAL ISSUE.

cratic candidate for the presidency
In 1880, said that the tariff is q local
issue. If he lived now he would
say it more emphaticslly. for there
is still great deal Of truth in. his
statement.
Just now Congress is trying to
revise the tariff. Revision down.
ward is absolutely necessary, but
the action of the House in MANY as
poets regards the tariff as local
issue.
1T is suggested that the duty on
sugar be removed. The Louisiana
delegation tearfully shouts that such
course will ruin the sugar indus
try in the Pelican State, and the
beet sugar men from Michigan.
Utah, Colorado, California and 9TH
er states let it be known that they
are high up in the amen corner.
1T Is proposed to take off the
duty on lemons. The fruit growers
of California protest that such a
step will put them out of business.
Try to reduce the steel and iron
schedules, and the iron producing
centers of the south and Pennsylva-
MIA howl in dismay, and the commu-
ties where the leading iron and steel
plants are located come in strong on
the chorus.
when reciprocity agreement
with Canada was proposed the farm
ers of the northwest knew that it
would broaden our agricultural in
terests, and they voiced the litany
of their woes.
discuss the need of reducing
the wooden and Gotten schedules.
and New England mill interests will
prophesy closed factories and long
industrial depression.
The Boston Globe says that
there is mo national feeling in the
attitude taken by the average Con-
gresham and many will agree
with that statement. The local
phase of the tariff question is often
manifested. "-Richmond Times
Dispatch.
The Times-Dispatch could have ex.
tended its illustrations almost indefi
nitely, and thereby shown that protec
ton is not local but a general issue il
this country. There is not a section. or,
possibly, community, in the United
States which amounts to anything thai
hasn't something it wants protected BY
the tariff; and this need or demand fol
protection is not confined to republi
cans but prevails in large proportion
with the democrats.
The Times Dispatch may recall the
fact that when the present tariff Law
was beng framed by Congress, the
two Senators and most of the members
Of the House of Representatives from
Virginia were jealous protectionists
when certain Virginia products had tc
be looked after.
The Times-Dispatch ought also to re.
call the fact that two years ago the
democrats of the Ninth district nomi-
mated man for Congress-Mr. Henry
c. Stuart-who avowed himself a pro-
tectionist in his opening speech of the
campaign, and planted himself squarely
on the tariff plank of the republican
platform of 1908. And our Richmond
contemporary was warm supporter of
Mr.. Stuart after he had declared him.
self for protective tariff. Besides, it
is claimed that the Virginia democracy
will make Mr.. Stuart, the protection
list, their next candidate for Governor.
The democrats of the Ninth district
have just nominated another protection
candidate for Congress-Mr. Ayers
and he was placed before the coDven-
ton that nominated him by a protec-
ZIONIST, Mr.. K. Tate Irvine.
The democrats, especially the south
ern democrats, ought to stop crying out
that protection is unrighteous, or cease
10 clamor for it when they have any,
hing they want protected.
Most people remember that they were