The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-19
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1922.
NEED FOR SELF CONTAINED INDUSTRY

There could be no more appropriate SUD- feet for agitation in the South than that or ssNeed for More Self Contained Industry, :" upon which one Southern periodical IS elabor- ating For years the South has given most or its attention to production of cotton, to the neolect of many other industries that offer great opportunities. Gradually that section has been developing other lines of production and has gone quite extensively into manutact- uring, but has yet far to go before It will be as nearly self contained as it should be- Each community. each section, each nation, should be as nearly sef-sustaining and self-rellant as practicable. When each has produced all the raw materials and manufactured goods It can produce, there will still be plenty to be purchased from the outside.
 If the South will get away from the old Democratic idea that it is always best to buy where you can buy the cheapest and Will learn to encourage it's own industries and the industries of the nation, there will be more prosperity in the South and over the entire United States. Sending money away to buy goods that can be produced at home IS poor business policy. Even if slightly higher prlce is paid for the goods produced at home, the purchaser receives an advantage from the 1acC that the purchase price goes to pay the wages of home people, thus further increasing the demand for home commodities.
 In climate, in soil, in the varied character or its natural resources, no other section ot the country is so greatly blessed as the South, but it has been cursed by political leadership that is unsound upon the fundamental pr1ncl- nles of economics. That political leadership keeps itself in power by appealing to preJud- ices that have had no reason for existence for +he nast forty years There is no need to re count the events out of which that prejudice arose. The South now realizes and admits that 2 severance of the Union would have been a catastrophe The North realizes and admits that the gross evils incident to "carpet-bag' government in reconstruction days were un- necessary and would never have been per mitted under the wise and sympathetic leader ship of Lincoln But the conflict between the sections is a matter of historv-not a present problem except so far as politicians use Ii to divert attention from issues directly affecting the industrial and commercial wtlfare of he nation.
 Southern statesmen, Washington, Jeffer- son and Madison, were leaders in the establish ment of the American protective tariff system under which American industry thrived. South ern statesmen were also the originators of the ship subsidy plan under which, prior to 1850, American ocean steamships won place eyual if not superior to that of steamships un- der the British flag A narrow and short sighted Southern statesmanship has in recent years impaired the industries of the nation in general and of the South in particular. As a result of those changed policies among South ern leaders, this nation has sometimes been far from elfcontained in its productive indus tries and far from self-reliant in its ocean transportation. <,
 From industrial leaders in every section of the South there has come in recent years an insistent demand for support of the protection policy, but the demand meets little response from political leaders. It will be fortunate if