Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24
HUBBELL ANNOUNCES
HIS CANDIDACY FOR
THE u. S. SENATE
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lican convention | will outline some
of the policies that, should | be sue
cessful. | will support to the best of
my ability, realizing all the time that
United States senator has many i'm
portant matters claiming his atten-
ton that affect the entire nation, and
yet at the same time feeling that the
interests of the state of New Mexico
are always paramount in whatever |
may do.
First of all, | am for a protective
tariff. This government must raise a
large amount of revenue annually, and
fail to see any better method than
that of compelling the foreigner who
sells his goods in this country TO pay
a reasonable tax for the privilege Of
so doing. But more than the mere
matter of revenue is the necessity of
protecting American industries from
foreign competition, particularly since
that competition is based upon labor
paid far less than an American labor
or can live on and maintain his self
respect.
why should we go abroad for the
things we can produce at home? Tho
war in Europe has demonstrated as
nothing had ever done before the ne
cessity for our independence Indus
trially. Germany for many years has
had tariff so well placed that COM
petition by foreign products in that
country was practically obliterated.
What Germany could produce at
home she produced there, and when
the war came she could not be badly
crippled, and certainly has not been
starved by an almost absolute block
AIDE, although more than sixty million
people live in an area about twice
that of New Mexico
Industries Crippled.
Furthermore, the war has crippled
the United states industrially. our
textile mills, for lack Of dyes, have
been badly handicapped, and to keep
more than a million employees at work
our state department has been com
PEELED to carry on almost constant
negotiations with both Germany and
Great Britain, involving various con-
cessions on our part which otherwise
we would not have made. We have
had to beg both of those countries
for articles manufactured in Germany,
the entire raw materials for which
had been secured in the United States.
IN a.
our own raw materials because the
manufactured products were admit
ted into this country from Germany
free of duty az lower price than they
could be produced by American labor.
ain New Mexico we produce
enough of the materials for the manu-
facture Of dyestuffs and other coal
tar products TO supply the world.
These materials in their raw state are
shipped to Germany, paying freight
across the ocean, are manufactured
there and shipped back here, paying
freight again, ana we buy them to the
tune of about $500. 1000 annually
| do not mean that these raw mate
rails are shipped from New Mexico
Most of them 80 from the eastern
states: but with proper protection a
great industry might be developed in
New Mexico for all of the west.
Il am in favor Of, and shall vote for
and work for, If elected, a policy that
will encourage the production Of ev-
erything in this nation for which we
have the raw material. ! would place
Il protective tariff in such a way as
to take care of the difference between
the cost of American and foreign la
Dor.