The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-05-21

the capacity and the resources of
ther people for years to come. So far
from tehre being any danger or need
of acccntuated foreign competition, it
is likely that the conditions of the
next few years will greatly facilitate
the marketing of American manufac
lures abroad. Least Of all should we
depart from the policy adopted in the
Tariff Act of 1913, of permitting the
free entry into the United States of
the raw materials needed to supple-
ment and enrich our own abundant
supplies.
Nevertheless, there are parts of
our tariff system which need prompt
attention. The experience of the war
have made it plain that in some cases
too great reliance on foreign supply
IS dangerous, and that in determining
certain parts Of our tariff policy do
mestic considerations must be borne
IN mind which the political as we'll
as economic. Among the industries to
which special consideration should be
given is that of the manufactured or
dyestuffs and related chemicals. Our
complete dependence upon German
supplies before the war made the in
terruption of trade cause of excep-
tional economic disturbance. The close
relation between the manufacturer of
dyestuffs, on the one hand, and of cx-
pldsives and poisonous gas on the
other, morcover,' has given the indus
try an exceptional significance and
value. Although the United States will
gladly unhcsitatingly join in the pro-
gram of international disarmament, it
will, nevertheless, be a policy of ob-
vlous prudence to make certain of the
successful maintenance of many
strong and well equipped chemical
plants. The erman chemical indus
try, with which we will be brought
into competition, was, and may well
be again, a thoroughly knit monopoly
capable of exercising a competition of
peculiarly insidious and DANGEROUS
kind.
Means of Protection.
"Thc United States should, more
over, have the means of properly pro-
tecting itself whenefer our trade is
Disseminated against by foreign ma
tlons, in order that we may be as
sured of that equality of treatment
which we hope to accord and to pro-
mote the world over. Our tariff laws
as they now stand provide no wcapon
OF retaliation in case other govern
ments should enact legislation UNEQUAL
IN It's bearing on our products of other
countries. Though we are as far as
possible from desiring to enter upon
any course of retaliation, we must
frankly face the fact that hostile
legislation by other nations is not yet
bepond the range Of possibility and
that 1t may have to be met by counter
legislation. This subject has, fortun-
ately, been exhaustively investigated
by the United States Tariff Commits
sion. recent report Of that commits
sion has shown very clearly that we
lack, and that we ought to have, the
instruments necessary for the assur-
ance Of equal and equitable treatment.
The attention of the Congress has
been called to this matter on past
occasions, and the past measures
which are now recommended by the
tariff commission are substantially
the same that have been suggested bv
previous administrations. ! recon-
mend that this phase of the tariff
question receive the early attention
Of the Congress-
Woman Suffrage.
"Will you not permit me, turning
from these matters, to speak once
more and very earnestly of the pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution
which would extend the suffrage to
women and which passed the House
of Representatives at the last session
OF the Congress? 1t seems to me that
every consideration of justice and Of
public advantage calls for the imme-
dlate adoption Of that amendment and
its submission forthwith to the Leg
lslatures of the several States.
throughout all the world this long
delayed extension of the suffrage is
looked for; in the United States,
longer, / believe, than anywhere else,
The necessity for it, and the immense