The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-01-19
TARIFF CONGRESS
PROPOSES TO AID
SOUTH'SFARMERS
Non-Partisan Act Will At
ford Protection to
Staple Crops
ASSEMBLY MEETS AT
ATLANTA THIS MONTH
Mrs. Anding of Opelousas
Will Have Work in
Charge Here

The movement for a non-partisan
farmers tariff is making great head
way in the south. Take the tariff out
of politics" is the watchwOrd Of the
movement to aid the southern farmer
to market his crops at a better price.
Heretofore the tariff bills have always
mostly aided the manufacturer with
out reference to the producer of raw
products. This tendency has built UP
class of millionaires at the expense
of the men who toll and produce. At
last the scales Of ignorance have drop
ped from the eyes of the people most
ly concerned and the present move
ment is based along that line
The following article appeared in
the New Orleans Item of a recent
date, and we gladly publish it:
''Ranchment of the southwest are
allowing their cowhides to rot on the
range because the price is too low 20
fjustify the trouble of sktnning a car
cass; the cotton fields of the south
are white with the staple whose value
is to low to pay for the picking; the
wool and mohair Of two seasons is be-
ing held by sheep and goat men be-
cause Of a decline in price which has
made their producct almost worthless
and the bins of the country are buIg-
ing with grain which is rotting for
want of a market" says the South
ern Tariff Advocate" non-partisan or
gan OF the Southern Tariff Ass0cia-
tion. There is a cause for this con-
dition and when the Southern Tariff
Congress meets in Atlanta in Janu-
ary the best thought of the south will
bend its energy toward removing the
cause and suggesting remedy"
An aggressive campaign is being or
ganized to enlist the cooperation Of
the south with the aims and objects of
the Southern Tariff Association
through a convention to be held in At
lanta January 27, % and 90, and a mass
meeting of the women's division in
New Orleans January 20, at II a. m,
in the Grunewald Hotel Lounge. Head
quarters of the womens division have
been established in New Orleans with
Mrs. Charles Farwell as chairman.
Will Join Mems Body
For the time being" said Mrs. Far
well, sit has been felt necessary to
have a woman's division, but it is
expected to merge into the mems as
sociation when the educational work
Ms completed. The bigness Of this
movement has not yet soaked in but
the successful organization of the
mems association in New Orleans has
served to point the significance of
this movement as a non-political and
non-partisan organization. The south
repudiates the suggestion that it must
embrace Republican politics in order
to obtain a protection tariff on cotton
sugar and peanuts. This organization
is for the purpose of putting the south
in a position where we can go before
| the congress and ask for whatever we
want in the way Of protection for our
producers and manufacturers.
Now that woman has the ballot she
Unjust face the full responsibilities OF
citizenship; and to qualify for citizen
ship she must study government, be-
cause if she is to vote safely she must
vote intelligently.
] "The Nineteenth amendment to the
constitution of the United States has
given the ballot to approximately 8,
3O5,132 women in the eighteen states
covered by the southern tariff asso
citation.
Men have been studying the tariff
from the standpoint of the factory, the
store and business. Women will nov
want to study it from the view of tht
home, the school and the church.
Women should be more apt stu
dents Of government and especially o
the tariff than men; for the American
/ housewife is the nations most cap
: able financier. She goes to the mar
ket daily and her transactions ar
many. The farmers wife both buy!
| and sells; thefore she must know bot
: sides of the market
: Home Sensitive Barometer
: "The home is a more sensitive baro
: meter to market conditions than tn,
: ticker in the brokers office; for witt
: the rise and fall Of prices a house
keepers hopes crash or her dream
come true.
mo better illustration of the powe
Of a tariff policy can be given thai
the present slump in the price Of col
tonseed, due to the free importation 0
I vegetable oils from the Orient. Ou
> first concern is for the farmer or pro
ducer. The farmer lost this money an
+ with it his children lost an educatio
, 1t shut the door of the university
. closed the rural church and left tn
farm family half clad and half fed.