The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-10-14

speak with some knowledge OF az
faia have been down in N1bi
neck OF the woods. | know wters
yOup manufactures are. and ! KNOW
the condition q your working leo
/ PIE. | have seen hundreds of a..
! homes and litile gardens IN We
/ Itouthland TIE manufa acturer OF lt
! north has bern jealous OF you, hhd
I s. uu know that aS1 well a. | do, ana
I he has said that you had an adNCrt-
] age over the manufacturer OF nc
l north on account OF the cheap 20
urrI labor OF the south. Well, | ht'e
| been there know the cheap "si-
I olcd labor OF the south. The aver
| age colored man % the south wan
! Iust about 40 much money ami no
! more. lie wouldn't know what t1 do
I with ii In tpV some culured mcA
! may grow am mhIlious for the accum'
{ glat.on Of money, but the av2rtse
1 cI,Cred man OF the south IL sutialls
/ when he has JUS, so much monoi.
/ and II he can keep his job by Ho'r-
Ang about two days cIch week, i"ht =
/ about all he wants TO work In "a %
/ tory In the south. That's what I've
/ -crn In The south They have hc"n
! doing with yea as have been iulnS
! this afternoon they have been = ~
( .ng your problems without knowing
/ anything about them.
As a rugg .ston, permit me 10 sly
| that the streets Of Jerusalem ba'e
! liwaNs been krpt clean by every man
| weeping his own Iooryard an ! as
/ q further sIggcstion\!et me say mat
| 10 Is perhaps wise 20 let people who
9 b..
/ 20 local affairs in this republic "
! ours
Now, for nb ut 80 days after the
/ war closed I Thought that mankind
| had bcSOinc angelic IN It's chnrnC Ter (;
| but NJ the days go by observe that
We are pretty much The -nmc old sort
: Of human tcing- that We wcrr before
| the war In this particular. thnt rs
american citizens We are not going
| to stand back here on TINS western
| continent md let the nations of TIC
old world rclnhiliiHtC themselves
and steal the trade Of the world.
| Now do not want That done, 1 am
willing To 20 y long ways Ia lending
| u helping hand To nil the needy ana
| oppressed, but | am not willing Tor
the American business man Ia III
down and let the trade of the world
IN stolen from him; and -, as ""
mlllcnniRl dawn H. not herr, one or
the great questions that conironts
you ~ manufacturers l. not alone TIE
question OF your home market hut
the question ns to whether you can't
get your products into the markcts
Of the world. and h NJ least one NJ
| the dominant factors In the tri,,ic Of
the world think You can.
Opposed To Government Ownrr+l,ip.
~ far as I AM COnCcr, am
unRltcrably opposed to government
ownership Of anything that the gov
crrmcnt docs not hnNc To own. We
used to have n man In Indiana Nho
said he took notice OF everything ne
obcrVcd. and that he observed
everything lac took notice Of ! haNc
been doing That In Washington, una
In so far ~ 7 have hpdsan oppor'u-
tnnit, to src things there. gentle
men, this Is the rcnl weakness NJ the
government ownership of anything
there H. nobody la cus-, nobody to
sac aud nobo 4 rcwnpd. hive
never known very much good to
come 10 the world out of anything In
which the man did not have the
sopc. at least, or the prospects m
honor or reward.
The shipping business is an unus-
ualiy peculiar one AR men w"o have
been engaged in IL tell me, ana as
believe. you cannot run the shipping
business by an act of congress. u K
"A business which requires quick dc
cls.ons, sudden changes OF policy and
mower TO fix rates az the cirHu. n
stances or the occasion may require.
why. gentlemen. the English gov
ernmpnt. or rather the English shii
ping Interests, were carrying carEocs
from Liverpool 10 Hong Kong i1d
Shanghai after the conclusion OF ;he
armisticc for tl25O "A ton for 30
davs before the American pecp'e
found it out. and they were asking
from $40 to $40 and $50 TO carry he
products OF American manufac;u'trs
10 those came ports
Although I was trained thcorcti-
Cnlly ~ "a ''tRrilI-tnr- revenue" demo-
Crnt, which you know was only Cghri-
outage for free trade. and although
I believe In that theory OF govern
mcnt even now, stiIi We have pail a
pretty high price In money. not 20
sneak of the loss of life. to help the
allies win this war: and 80, II am
mistaken about Il. I hope hat the
tariff commission viii scC That the
AmCri mn manufacturer has at least
"A fair start In the markets of the
world for the supremacy OF ilic
world
! thlnk that the waFrways OF ths
,roputry ought 20 be~ted up with
the railroads under the control o. zoe
Interstate commerce cOmp&issiDn.
You have noticed. haven't y8d that
the more We improve the rivers Of
this country the less traffic there Is
on them" Th1t's true, gentlemen;
there lgu oven an exception % Prov
tho rule. and YOU know why, ion't
you7 T. IL because there ~ a clRuse
in tho Interstate commerce law tha