The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-08
FAVORS PROTECTION ON
MI PRODUCTS OF FARM
FOR II GENT COTTON LOAN
Inststs There Is No Such Thing As
Hyphenated Tarfn-Cotton Must
Have Other Means Of Protection
Than Protective Tax1fY.

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Ft Worth. Texas, Oct. TN q
nemor1al to Congress issued today,
untitled 1.-THE American Farmer and
liz Government II. N. Pope. presi-
lent OF the Association OF State Farm
~ Union Presidents. favors protec-
ION on all Agricultural products, de-
tArea that no country can thrive half
protected and half free. insists that
here 10 no such thing as hyphenated
artff and asks that cotton be pro-
ected by twelve cent minimum loan
rom government.
II The memorial. which goes into an
Exhaustive analysis of the subject. says
n part:
"The Southern cotton farmer. in
demanding that Congress empower tho
Federal Reserve Board to fix and pro-
sot . twelve cent per pound mini
hum loan, fine on cotton advances, no
Dew doctrine in government. for 1t
has been the policy of this nation
ever since We have had nation to
|Ihrotect home industries Cotton ia
bur only agricultural product that
eannot be helped by protective tariff
Ind must, therefore. seek other means
pf protection.
The cotton producer is the only
lAssh of farmer who has always been
|compelled to sell what he produced on
free market and buy what he con-
iFumed on a protected market and as
consequence, the cotton fields OF
he South have more tenants, more
poverty and more suffering than any
ther agricultural area on the West
ern Hemisphere. This condition
Ehould challenge. but not battle.
american craftsmanship.
Assist All or None.
mo matter what ones views may
be on the governmental policy Of
Ffprotection or free trade. all will agree
hat no country can reach Its highest
iegree OF prosperity half protected
and half free. This country should
assist all industries or none. No pro-
Iductive industry can thrive selling
/ n free market and buying In a pro-
ected one. We have no desire to
bring all agriculture and manufac-
ured products TO the level OF cotton.
we ask that cotton be lifted to the
evel of other Industries.
III The three great agencies which
HOW slbsidize the American producer
|kand manufacturers are the tariff. the
sea and the war. But cotton has had
MO benefits from the tariff. and dis
&ance. which is a powerful factor in
pricemaking, has been a handicap TO
nc GOtlOii Ipf ne mas HAQ
o cross the ocean to reach the con-
sumner. The war. which brought un-
bounded prosperity TO all other lines
Nj industry, paralyxed the cotton
farmer.
Since many of the leaders of polti-
bal thought in this nation, have de-
tlared for a tariff commission for the
hvowed purpose OF taking tariff out
bf politics, the farmers may enter up
from partisan prejudices and olsen
gagged from the political fortunes Of
(any party or any candidates. No other
inc of approach could be permitted
pr tolerated by the farmers union.
1t matters not whether tariff Is
evied for protection or for revenue.
I offers to industry the same assis-
ance. There Is no suoh thing as a
hyphenated tariff A policy OF uni
he American farmer for he sells more
han he buys.
Twelve Gent Minimum Loan.
Protecting the factory without
protecting the pillow Is an unpardon-
able discrimination and should not he
Tolerated by the farmers of the ma
ion. Neither should any one agri-
cultural produce receive protection un-
ess all agricultural products receive
PtOt0Saoh AAcEG Suoula De IA pro-
ective tariff on corn. wheat. rice.
wool and all other agricultural pro-
ducts. but cotton cannot be helped
by tariff and therefore. requires a
different form of protection
"Cotton is the only agricultural
product OF which this nation has .
world monopoly. For the past half
century. we have clothed the world
md nothing can trAnspire to take this
~ -
peneury. !. The Lord made the South
cotton country ana he made cotton
IN axoausivs southern product No
eGtafak3on can give universal help to
he South unless II helps the cotton
producer.
I'VE produced two-thirds OF the
worlds cotton supply. Tho goverr-
msut. BY protecting q twelve cent
Iuauimum loan on cotton. can enable
The farmers 10 fix price which for
Bign countries must pay for cotton.
Tho government would never DO
called upon to advance any money on
cotton under this plan for the mar
ket price would always stand much
above the loan minimum figures
THE government could not pursue
his course on any other agricultural
product for we do not control world
2production. there 10 no occasion to
(oHuci THAT CIldtOCtGT OF a98l8V0nC0 Tot
y protective tariff will help all other
products. We scarcely do more In
normal times than feed ourselves We
Export nominal amount Of wheat,
but produce only twenty per cent Of
The worlds wheat supply
When we increase the price Of cot
Eon. we levy tribute upon the foreign
consumers. which IL the greatest at
(ainment in State craft. Cotton has
putstripped all other American in
iustries in it's growth. and 10 the only
Farm product which has outgrown q
protective treatment from any other
product. But size ought not to bs
penalized by inability or thrift dis
eouraged by neglect. but rather we
bhould compensate achievement and
bubstdize enterprise"
via1ts Old Hsae Place.
New York. Oct. 6.-Charles r..
Hughes today revived some Of the
hAppieet days OF his childhood with
lfrs. Hughes. The Republican candi-
tate visited his fathers old home pface
)n Newark. The trip was made from
Gont Clair By motor.