Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-28
POOR OUTLOOK FOR ANTI.
PROTECTlONISTS

Despite the fact that the South
staged the greatest fight in the his
tory OF its development for the policy
Of protection. thereby recording a
change in the sentiment of that sec
ton which has persisted for a CEN
tury, when the final vote in the SEN
ate was taken 1t showed that not
one Bourbon Democrat had budged
an inch from the traditional south
ern attitude in opposition to protec-
non. the policy adopted in the days
when cotton was the undisputed
King Of Dixie. The fact suggests
the old saying. "a Bourbon learns
nothing and forgets nothing"
Two Southern Senators there were
who voted for the bill, Broussard and
ana Sugar is the feudal lord who has
never bowed his head to Cotton.
And the Senators from the Pelican
state have never attempted any eX-
cuse for uphodinS the protective
policy.
OF course the remedy for such mis-
representation is obvious-the elm
ination from the Senate, and from
the House Of representatives. for
that matter. of -protectionists
who purpose to speak for States
where protective sentiment has out
grown the old ideas of Hayne and
Calhoun in his later years. OF the
Senators who are up for reelection
this year, tour are from the old
South, namely. Mcclellan of Tenn
csee, Reed of Missouri, Swanson of
Virginia, and Trammell Of Florida.
iiand two are from the new South
Ashurst Of Arizona and Jones of New
Mexico.
Swanson was avid for protection
on peanuts, the peanut growers of
his State having driven him to vote
for high duties on that commodity.
But after he had assured himself
that peanuts would receive adequate
protection. he bolted the bill as a
whole, thus playing both ends
against the middle. Virginia has
many other interests which require
protection, and if she returns Swan
son to the Senate she will have rem
dered thanks to the Republican
party by -electing a man who
would undo all that the party has
done for the State. Trammell de-
manded protection for citrus fruits
and pineapples. He got it and then
WEIGHED on the bill. Florida will
learn to appraise such representation
some day, and in the meantime she
will profit by Republican legislation.
Reed has his hands full. and the
chances are excellent that when the
Missouri vote is counted another Re
publican Senator from that State
will have been sent to Congress to
support a policy which the majority
of the State favor. Mcclellan also
%lll have tough shedding as the pro-
tective sentiment in Tennessee is
very strong. Ashurst and Jones vot-
ed for many protective features Of
the bill when it was being considered
by paragraphs. but voted against the
bill as whole.
Among the Northern and Western
Democratic Senators who are up for
reelection and who voted against
the bill are Gerry OF Rhode Island,
Hitchcock OF Nebraska> King of
Utah, who retires. Myers Of Mon
tana, retrcs. Williams of Mississippi.
retires. Pittman OF Nevada, and
Pomerene of Ohio. Nebraska Is am
. lly protected with respect to her
farm products, contrary to Hitch
cocks wishes. AS a manufacturing
state. Rhode Island will want no
more of Gerry. The chances are
good that Ohio will give Pomerene a
rest. Montana will be found in the
Republican column this fall. and so
also will Nevada. Mississippi is still
.-ir the dark ages, and prohibits the
dark vote. All in all it looks as If
that this will be a bad year for anti
protection congressman.