The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-23
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o SAYS SOUTH NEEDS DIVERSIPICATION
o AND A PROTECTIVE TARIFF.


o 90 900 o o o O 5000 O Q
Editor Constitution: The writer of this article
is an Indiana editor / was born IN the South but
now live In the north. have visited every State
In the South and studied the resources and posi-
bities of this section. love and admire the peo-
pie OF the South, and what here say is prompted
not by political or sectional feelings hut in the
interest Of the entire country, and especially the
South. ] am a business man a. well as editor
and my views here are of business character
nave made some investments in the South and may
make others, II conditions justify have just spent
few weeks in Florida, where business conditions
are depressed as they in Georgia, and all over
the country.
WHAT'S the Matterl
In passing through Atlanta on my way north
bought a copy of The Constitution The articles
OF Mr.. Haden and Mr. Holleman and your editorial
comments on same attracted my attention. Their
subject might properly be called whats the Mat
ter With the South?"
Both agree that diversity of crops and more in
tense farming are what Is needed. Mr. Haden takes
the rosy view of the case and says these good
things are coming. Mr.. Ho,leman is not so sure OF
1t on account of the ignorance end Indifference OF
the great bulk OF farmers. Every time visit the
South am struck with the anomaly of a great rich
enough stuff to feed its population!
With millions of acres of grazing lands going To
waste you buy your beef and pork In Chicago and
your butter from Elgin. Ill With the sunshine al
most perpetual Florida don't raise enough chickens
and eggs to feed the tourists. Down there where
Strawberries bear for five months they sell at from
30 to 40 cents box, and in my Hooser State
where the season is over in ten days, they sell al
from to Is cents box
Florida has gone daft on citrus fruit Just as the
cotton States bow down and worship King Cotton
Diversified Farming.
What the South needs is more diversified farm
Ing. Why this section is called the "Truck Patch
of the nation and yet you ship your canned fruits
and vegetables from the north Besides diversity
or crops more intense and better farming is need
ed 1t would be well for all our country north and
South, to stud the methods of Belgium Germany
ana Austrie those countries ten acres is a
good sized I, There is another question that
just as vitality &C rms the South as the diversity
OF crops. 1t has in the past been political aues-
ton. but 1t should not be- for 1t is business uues-
ton that should be eliminated from party politics
And that question is the tariff am well aware
what has kept the South solid" for the democratic
party 1t is the negro question. But the South has
settled these local matters in its own way and the
north has not interfered. The issues Of the civil
war are passed, and should be forgottend When the
boys who wore the blue Join in celebrating birthday
OF Lee. as they did In Florida last month and the
boys who wore the gray unite in paying tribute to
Lincoln how foolish for this generation to quarrel
and divide over business proposition that Affects
the welfare of the entire nation The South needs
protection moro than the north, and the South be-
hsses In protective tariff
II she had demanded protection for cotton goods
as the north did for woolen goods there would have
lkoafl M 1nkf
war. How much better would 1t be to manu-
facture the raw cotton right here at home than To
ship 1t abroad and then buy back the flushed pro-
duct
lifelong democra. in my home State told me
recently that he had voted for his last lSw tariff
He said he voted for 1t In 1892 and brought a panic
and again In 1912, and severe depression In bust.
ness. - q
met prominent business man OF Atlanta ON
this train last night. He told me the same story
Some say that our bad business is on account OF
the war. But the depression was here before the
war began Foreign wars usually help our trade
and especially do they aid the farmers. with the
exception of wheat all farm products are lower
than before the war, although our expors OF these
goods are above norwel.
The writer voted for protective tariff. HIS
State needed the tariff Just as all the South needs
1T now You need 1t more than the north Then
why let the bogy of negro domination bar the south
from voting for business policy that VIII bless the
whole nation and especially It's own people You
need not absSion your party or It's great time ho
Of principles. but It Is time you were voting for
bread and butter and not so much sentiment ana
prejudice.
WILL H.cRA1a.
\ Noblesyilie. Ind.
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