, 1922-08-15
For Local Protection

DEMOCRATIC SENATORS attest the real valus
OF a protective tariff every time they vote for a
protective tariff on pre5ucts of their own states. Is
a point made by Senator GooDISG, Of Idaho. in be-
half OF the Fundamental principle of Republicanism.
Senator GooDrSe was replying to Senator CARAwAY.
OF Arkansas, answering a statement that a senator
deceivcs his constituents when he votes for protec-
ton on an industry in which he has a personal
financial interest. Among other things Senator
.GooDrSG said:
II want to congratulate senators on the other
side OF the chamber who have courage enough to
vote for the industries of their states, and I care
not whether it be rice, peanuts, wool, longstaple
cotton, graphite, or anything else. It shows to me
that, after all, when il comes to the interest of their
own people, they know and understand that protec.
ton is a blessing to their states. I understand, of
course, that under the party lash, working under a
Democratic platform which declared that protec.
tion is unconstitutional, as it has done for a hun
drcd years, all of them cannot see their way clear
TO go the full length of the matter. But / say in all
sincerity, and / say IL to the junior senator from
Alabama CMr. HEPLN), who saw a little village
spring mp in his state where there was a graphite
mine, who saw a schoolhouse there, with happy chill.
dren, who saw n people prosperous, an. industry
which had been developed by the war, because that
gave 1t protection on account of lack Of transpor-
tation to bring graphite from the mines of foreign
countries. As soon as the war was over, and ocean
transportation became normal, he saw that little
mining camp go down, the schoolhouse was closed.
every home was deserted. and if there was any wild
game IN that neighborhocd it stalked through that
deserted village.
IL have seen just such things as that happen in
the mining camps of the west when there has been
a lack of proper protection. II never entered nv
mind that the senator from Alabama had an inter.
est in that graphite mine. | believed his heart was
touched with sympathy, and l knew it was, for peo-
pie who had once been happily engaged in that in
dustry and were thrown out of an occupation, and
are no doubt struggling now 10 keep the wolf from
inc dooE' never had such a feeling in regard to
any other senator who had the courage to vote for
protection for an industry Of his state.
Il plead guilty to owning a few sheep. We would
call them a few out west; they would not be called
a few down here. Sheep raising has been nv life's
work, almost from boyhood. The people of Idaho
knew L owned sheep when they elected me, and, as
l remember it, L lead the ticket in majorities. There
Is no question of doubt about my people understand.
ing that L was a woolgrower, and that 1 would
fight for that industry to the last ditch, because
without it my state cannot exist. Without the live
stock industry will include sheep and cattle
the great west cannot go on. If 1 have violated
any law in voting for the industries of nv state
L am ready to resign, and, by the eternal gods, 1
will resign.
There are 100000 woolgrowers in America, and
L believe 1T is safe to say that 95 per cent of the
senators ON this floor own property of some kind
or other that is affected by this bill. I think il ia
safe to say that so per cent of them own land upon
which farm products are grown. God forbid that
the day shall come when the senate and the house
will be filed with men who do not own property in
their own rights"