Arizona republican., 1921-01-26
DWIGHT 3. HEARD ID
 REPRESENT ARIZONA
 AT TARIFF CONGRESS

When the second meeting of the Southern Tariff congress meets at At lanta. Ga, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week to work out plans for protecting the producers of raw materials, rather than finished products exclusively, the Salt River valley and the state of Arizona will be represented by Dwight B. Heard of The Republican.
 Credentials were wired in advance that MT. Heard represents at the Southern Tariff congress, the Arizona American Egyptian Cotton Growers association, which has been making strenuous effort to secure protection against the importation of Egyptian cotton, and the state of Arizona, through being the personal represent ative of Gov Thomas E. Campbell, who was unable to attend owing to the press of official duties, though a vice presi- dent of the congress. Mir. Heard also represents the Arizona Cotton Grow CTS association.
 The Southern Tariff congress is non partisan organization covering the entire South for the purpose of se- curing protection for the products of the South and eliminating the unfair competition in our markets of prod ucts raised by cheap labor, and par ticularly the coolie labor of the Orient. Its purposes are set forth by proc lamation as follows:
 I. To provide a non-partisan
 forum for the discussion of public policies as they affect the prog
 ress and prosperity of Southern in- dustry. especially with respect to tariff levies.
 II. To recommend to the Unit States tariff commission and to congress such tariff schedules on Southern products as will equaliZe the cost of production in this coun-
 try with that of foreign countries, as far as may be consistent with public welfare. Such schedules to
 be so placed as to fairly distribute the burdens and benefits among all | industries, without discriminating against any section, class or prod uct, to the end that there may be
 maintained American standards Of living in every line of effort. III. To make recommendations under which this government may encourage American industry to
 successfully compete in world mar
 kets, and successfully utilize our
 merchant marine for expanding our
 foreign trace.
 The movement for protection for tn, products of the South has gained won. derful momentum and remarkable sup. port from men of all sections ana parties, from the governors of all tn, Southern states, from all importan agricultural district and civic organ. izations, among which might be men. tioned the AmericanCotton association the Arizona American Egyptian Cot ton Growers association, and all othe divisions of the national cotton grow ers' organization, the Arizona Cattl Growers association, the New Mexic
 Cattle Growers association, and othe livestock organizations, the variou
 Southern wool growers organizations the associations representing the pea
 nut growers, the rice growers, the sug
 ar planters, the American Federatio of Farm Bureaus, citrus fruit growerl
 organizations, honey producers, an practically all bankers organization and chambers of commerce through
 out the South
 The guest of honor will be ex-Gov ernor Coolidge of Massachusetts, wh will be vice president of the Unite : States after March 4. Together wit 2 most of the governors of southerl
 states, he will be quartered at tn Georgian Terrace, one of the most ia nous of southern hotels. which will 2 governors mansion" during the tari congress.
 n President-elect Harding has bee urgently invited to attend by a commit tee consisting of the governors of a
 the Southern states, with a suppl,
 mental invitation from tue editors ar
 publishers of most of the leadir
 southern papers, among them the eC
 itors of the Arizona Republican and u
 Arizona Gazette.
 "A tariff to protect the producers
 raw products has been made necessal p by conditions following the war" sa = w. $. Stevens, president of the Ariz' na American Egyptian Cotton Grov