The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-25
KIRBY WOULD TRY
 ID !NST|LL HIS NEW
 THOUGHT IN SOUTH
Calls Southern "Tariff Con- gresSeS" and CritiCiSes Members of Congress
 Who Do Not Follow Him
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Bureau The AEe-Herald
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900 Davidson Building
 Washington. June 24.-tSpecial.) )- John H. Kirby, president of the Southern Tariff association, WI de- clares himself representative of the new thought" in the south, returns to Washington for ,he purpose of issuing calls for tariff congresses" in various southern cities, and of criticizing southern members of Con- Eress who do not subscribe to his paternoster.
 According to Mir. Kirby, whose ac- tivities highly delight the high priests of protection, tariff con xresses" will be held at New Orleans, July I, and Greensboro, N. C., July i7-1s. Other Congresses he an nouncee, will be held at Richmond, Va, Columbia, S. C., and Montgomery, Ala, the respective dates to be made known In the future.
 The purpose of these "congresses," according to Mir. Kirby Is to give the people 'who produce the wealth and sustain southern institutions an op- portunity to express their views OH tariff policies" That the -outh is not in sympathy with it's spokesmen in Congress, is a contention Of MT. Kirby, and 1t is probable that at the ~CongresseS" Mir. Kirby hopes to bring pressure 70 bear to the end that the congressman may abandon their stand in favor of a tariff for revenue only.
 unfortunately" says MT. Kirby ''we have a few congressman from the south who would favor moving our ranches to South America. our factories to Germany, our oil fields to Mexico, our poultry yards to China, our sheep herds to Australia and our farms to the orient and repudiate the Americanism of Jefferson and Jack son simply in order that they might keen their records straight, But such conEressmen on misrepresent the south
 Quite recently MT. Kirby and his association have not enjoyed smooth sailing. Southerners in Congress have all but ignored the effort to make 1t appear that the south had repudiated its carly traditions, and had embraced the republican party. In the second place the republicans, in effort to write tariff bill that will be restrictive enough to please the manufacturing east. and liberal enough to please the agricultural and lumber producing west, are sharply divided among themselves-even to paper organs of the party are re- mindinE the leaders that If the breach Is not healed. 1t might furnish the means of democrats regaining the reins of government.
 And in the third place Mir Kirby and his association have failed to arouse the enthusiasm of farmers and others n his political cure e-alf for the present period of depression. The farmer, l. is indicated, h-.s srnelled the mouse in the proposition and has become suspicious because of his knowledge that tariff revision will necessarily and admittedly in crease the cost of living, and the fact, as brought out in hearings be fore the ways and means commit tea, that the members of the asso- ciation, though claiming to be demo- crats. supported the republican ticket last November.
 G-,. a Black Eye
 The repudiation of the association by Gov. Hugh NJ Dorsey of Georgia constituted anotker "blackeye" for the Kirby propaganda. When the as sociation was first organized, it car ried on it's letter heads d list of hon orary vice presidents inclusive of the names of Gov. Thomas E. Kilby of Alabama, Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey of Georgia, Col R. A. Cooper of South Carolina, Gov. Lee M Russell of otu uufr ,fl,. In, the Senate Senator Harrison made the contention that the governors so in cluded were not protectionists, but were democrats, and suggested that they were induced to enroll their names as result of a misunderstand- ing. Senator Harrison made his rs- marks when Senator McCumber read the list of ro~ernors to prove his point that der -ocrats. elected by democrats, were repudiating the policy of democrats in Congress.
 Governor Dorsey of Georgia, when his attention was called to the effort of the Kirby association to make capital of his name and office. de- clared in a dispatch to the Macon Telegraph that his name had been used without authority and without his Knowledge and that he did not subscribe to the policies of the Kirby association--that in other words. he was a democrat and intended to re- main a democrat. Other governors, S far as known, have preferred to ignore the action of the association to an open repudiation of such action.
 It is indicated that the southerners front against the permanent tariff bill when it is presented for debate. Louisiana because of it's sugar. may have a defection or two: and Texas on account of its cattle, may lose a member. But the south, after the sustained propaganda of Kirby, is as strong as ever against the protection policy of New England manu- facturers.
 It is suspected that one of tho req sons for the assembling of tariff congresses in five southern states this summer is the necessity that the republican fear of enlistins south ern recruits to make up for the pro- spective loss in their own ranks Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee is naturally hand in-glove with Kirby.
 CONFEDERATE PARK ON
 BATTLEFIELD OF MANASSAS
 Washington. June 24.--(Special.)- )-- A confederate park will be estab-