Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-03

SITUATION ,Lndl lHC SISdler the nome
consumption of copper the greater the
misery besetting our copper miner, cop
per districts, and all Arizona? Also
explain the enormous increase the past
five years in the copper manufacturer S
earnings?
Why not explain the reason for only
20 copper mines being operated in Ari-
zona today, while in 1912, before Chill
can and African copper competition
existed, we had SO copper mines operat-
ing within Arizona?
Why not explain the reason for only
nine of our Arizona copper producing
districts being active and the other
40 well-known copper producing dis
tricts lying dormant and neglected?
Why not have the free trade copper
champion explain the inspiration for
the jealous activity he displays in
seeking to keep the Arizona copper
miner fettered with free trade shac-
kles, when all his industrial brothers
are not so chained?
Why not call on the free trade copper
champion to explain his advocacy of
a policy that is un-American, un-
democratic, metropolitan and, is and
can, only be advocated by international
commercialists and their servitors?
Copper is selling now and has for
the past five years, sold 18 per cent
below it's past 3O-year price. All other
protected commodities are selling at
least SO per cent higher than their
past 3O-year price. This 70 per cent
less proportional price for unprotected
copper is directly due to the destructive
competition of the slave labor copper
of foreign lands invading our home
market
I challenge these free trade copper
champions to deny that copper will not
reach it's parity price of at least 23
cents per pound when a copper tariff
is made rigidly effective.
I challenge these champions of inter-
national commercialism to explain the
reason why they are free traders in
Arizona and protectionists in the east.
Having in mind that the free trade
copper champion insists that we must
produce copper for export, it should
require but little argument to convince
all loyal and intelligent Arizonians
that an increasing copper production
without an accompanying increase in
copper prices, and an accompanying
advance in the Arizona copper miners
standard of living, is not beneficient
to our state.
am sanguine that organized labor
within Arizona will never sanction the
destruction of the Arizona copper
miner or support a policy that will
continue to force the copper miner to
work for a nonLlivable wage.
Arizonians can we'll see that their
state cannot be enriched by producing
copper to sell abroad at price that
means starvation wages and low
miner, and a dissipation of our in
valuable copper resources.
Why not tear away the flimsy
screen these scheming internationalists
have drawn twiXt US and the visions
of Wholesome prosperity that lies
within the portals of protection? Why
not follow the well-known path of pro-
lection for our copper product and re-
/ ceive the economic heritage that, is our
due as Americans?
Above all, let US not, forget that mill
lionsbupon millions of our better-paid
industrial brothers followed the path
of projections; likewise remember that
the Andean Indian and the Congo miner
are living examples lining the highway
of free trade and international COM
mercialism.
Let us seek protection forthwith. Let
US unswervingly support Ralph Cam
eron in the epochal effort he is now