Arizona republican., 1915-04-30
Addressing Southern Com mercial Congress, Points Out Need of Co-operation m Solution National and International Problems
AT ONCE IF
 PROSPERITY COMES
Says Sad Lack of Business Statcsmanship in Hand- ling Tariff is Bringing In- duStrial Chaos to All Sec tons of Country
Especial to The Republican)

 MUSKOGEE, Okla, April 29.-Be- fore the Southern Commercial Con- l gress. in session here, George w. Per kins. of New York. today delivered an address on "The New South and the New World"
 In part MT. Perkins said Fifty years ago this month a great reconstruction period began in this country Every man fully realized it, for the causes were SD dramatic that they made deep impression. Not only a new South but a new nation was born.
 To-day we are in the midst of anotn- CT great reconstruction period: but do we realize it.-do we comprehend it's causes. it's effects?
 We are all familiar with the story of the flood of water in Noah's day which engulfed the world and wiped out then existing conditions. Tn our day there has Teen another great flood which has cngulfcd the world and wiped ont many existing conditions. refer to the flood of electricity in Edi- sons day | believe we have been too close tD this electrical flood to realize it's magnitude and significance and that our failure in this respect has caused and is causing us to hesitate, to stumble. to lose vast commercial op- portunities offered in the reconstruc- tion period or the great new electrical world
 "I understand il was Governor Fer guson Of Texas who recently said I've are broke with our pockets full of money" And if this is so, it is largely because We are groping in the dark with an electric torch in our hands.
 "Intercommunication by electricity automatically ccntraIizes social and in dustri9l relations. The advent of cleo tricity sounded the death kneH of m dividualism and heralded the birth of CO., operation. II drew men together into one mighty family. and just as the family living under one roof must CO., operate if it would be happy and pros Der. SO men living and working under present day conditions of intercom- municati0n must cooperate if they would be happy and prosper.
 operation. therefore, is and must be the keynote. the spirit, the watch word of the great new electrical world. Your co-operation in a solution of our national and international problems is alI-important and must be had at once if our nation as q nation is to come into the prosperity to which it is en- titled and in which the South cannot fail 10 share
 "The South has recently had two striking illustra tions of what opera tion on 2 large scale can do. I refer to the Tennessee Coal and Iron com pany and Your cotton difficulties of last fall
 'JuGt now We are in the midst of another affair where a sad lack of business statesmanship is bringing in- dustrial chaos to all sections of our country I refer to the new tariff. In place of being made by experts on the subject by men capable of making tariff along scientific and reciprocal lines. it has been made as all our other tariffs have been made, by politicians along political lines
 During the last thirty years we have mad at least five revisions of the tariff and several attempts at revision,- practically q continuous perfOrma nee of tariff tinkering for politics only, with the result that nobody has been satisfied, business has been periodically upset and millions of workers have often been in sore distress. We have never had and never will have, under existing conditions, a fair and properly balanced tariff schedule. What we Continued on Page. Three)