Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-05-16
BELIEVES SOUTH
NEEDS PROTECTION
Manufacturers Record Makes Strong Plea
In Support Of Our Great Tariff System
Viewing it as the Hope Of the South.


ment in this section, and of late the
leaders of the movement for better
farms have come to realize that it is.
Just as essential for the prosperity of e
the farmer. 1t is unfortunate that this
automatic fact cannot get a fuller ex-
preston, but as most of the nevsna-
pers of the South are bound By partisan
ties to the democratic party, which pro-
fesses opposition to the principles of
protection, though in action are for IT
so far as it affects the industries of
their own communities, they do not
give to the policy of protection the
need Of praise it so richly deserves.
Fortunately, however, there ia orozz-
log up IN the South a number of excel
lent farm journals and organs of the
fuctories that refuse to be longer blind
ed 20 the fact that free trade means The
death Of Southern factories and stran-
gulation TO its farms, and these sneak
IN no uncertain tones on the subject
An excellent article under the caption
Of The Benevolence of Protection" re
Gently appeared in the Manufacturers
Record, and it is worthy of being read
by every one favoring Southern pro-
gress and prosperity.
On account of the good hard common
sense Of the article it is reproduced in
full, as follows:
| beaevoisnce begins at home.
Tariff reform begins away from
! home. These are general proposi-
| tlons to which there are of course
many exceptions"
Samuel G. McLendoa. of Atlon+,
is a candidate for election TO the United
States Senate from Georgia. There
fore ne has published Z brochure deal
'ng with the fundamental plank of his
platform, and that plank is a protec-
tive tariff. He does not mince facts.
he makes his position quite plain. Ee
expresses il thus:
believe the time has come when
Georgia should demand ard when If
| Will demand full, fair and propor-
tonate protection to everything
which 1t can offer in the markets OF
! the United States from its farms
It's factories, its forests and its
mines. believe the lumber of
Georgia should be protected along
! with the wheat Of Minnesota.
believe the cotton grower should he
protected, through the manufactur-
er, along with the grower Of hav in
Iowa believe that Georgin iron
ore. Georgia manufactures of iron
and steel, Georgia kaclin and every-
thing else that Georgia produces.
grows or manufactures at the pres-
ent time, or which it can produce
grow or manufacture in the future.
should be protected, not claudestine-
ly, but openly, frankly and boldlv.''
such statement by candidate for
pohucal preferment in the South is mt
a surprise. 1t was bound 70 come with
the awakening of the public mind of the.
South to the tendency of the day in ns-
tional fiscal Legislation and to the inev-
i1aoie result for the South OF the suc-
cess of the tendency. For the general
proposition demonstrated by current
southern statesmanship in q position 70
ieglslate on the tariff, to which If
course there are few exceptions. is
not the one quoted from Mr.. McLen-
don' but 1t Is that tariff reform shon,S
begin at home and the benevolence in
volved IN that reform should be for the
benefit Of other folks and st the ev-
b pense Of folks at home.
Explanation of the proneness of
Southern craftsmanship TO sacrifice ire
welfare OF the South to Tariff reform
IS the unwittingness Of that statesman
snip. 1t goes back for its Justification
to the period of fifty years ago. when
the agricultural point of view was the
point Of view Of the stat-snanship then
dominant, when enthusiasm of leaders
Tor most momentous struggle WIS
[ predlcated upon the error ;hat cotton
was strong enough to settle that stru,r
n gle practically in advance. l. does not
go back another fifty years wien South
ern craftsmanship of breadth that has
not been eq1alled since, had the point of
II view that manufacturing was lust as
essential TO the welfare of the country
as agriculture and that the two were
interdependent. 1t forgets that. in
spite of the drawbacks that it hss Of
fered, the South has become, in the pe-
L riod in which Southern leaders Of today
have grown to mans nature, a manu-
featuring section, and that the South's
It welfare demands equal protection for
other activities dependent upon them.
. ''This prevailing Southern statesman
q ship acts as though it does not
know that while in 1880 the
value OF farm products was
S756, 900. 600 and the value of manufac-
tured products was S622. $40. 900, the re-
lative positions have peea reversed and
= and that the value Of manufactured pro
duets in 1911 was SO. 800, 900, 600 and the
value of farm products s., 900. 600. 600.