Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-28

Likewise, the consuming public today
pays SO per cent more for these
metals than it did little more than Il
decade ago. And it may be asked,
who is there within our country who
can in equity refute their right to
this increase?
If the copper miner had a so per
cent increase for his product, the
copper districts of Arizona would en-
joy unexampled prosperity. The iron
miner had to fight long and unceas-
ingly against the importing agencies
of this country and the foreign pro-
ducer before securing protection for
his product The lead and zinc miners
had to overcome the same opposition
before securing protection.
The importing and manufacturing.
east possess a highly developed trad
ing instinct. They make their living
fand excess profits by buying cheap
and selling high. They are desirous
of securing raw resources at mini
mum prices and obtaining the best
price possible for their manufactured
product. This trait is commendable
commercially, yet the buyer must
exercise caution, likewise, the pro-
ducer of raw resources, in dealing
with the manufacturer. The ideal
Condition for the domestic manufactu-e
rer is to secure his raw resources
in the free trade market of the
world and sell his manufactured pro-
duct in highly protected domestic
market.
So, in the nature of things, we
find both the manufacturer and the
producer of raw resources CONNER
cially antagonistic to one another,
yet both deGirous of securing protec-
tion for their respective products.
AS examples, one notes the New Eng
land manufacturer eager for pro-
tective tariff for his manufactured
wooden product yet fighting to keep
our western raw wool on the free
list. The eastern shoe manufacturer
desirous of duty as against foreign
made shoes, yet wanting our western
hides left unprotected.
The eastern fabricator of copper
products desires, and has duty as
against manufactured copper articles.
He likewise desires to have his raw
resource, namely, "copper" remain on
the free list.
SO the fight we are engaged in to
secure protection for our copper min
ing industry is parallel to the ones
cited.
The fight is an economic one, and
will be won by marshalling and pre-
senting our data to congress in way
denoting the necessity for maintaining
a supply of produced cop
per, and in order to maintain same
that a protective tariff is essential
as against foreign-produced copper.
We will have to, and can, show
that the copper miner cannot meet
foreign labor competition. Likewise
that we cannot pay protective tariff
prices for our supplies when the for
eign copper producer can buy his
supplies in the free trade markets of
the world.
In addition to the foregoing, we
will show that the transportation
cost of supplies for foreign copper
areas, likewise the cost of delivery
of copper from their mines to New
York is less for foreign-produced
than domestic copper.
Likewise it will be shown that the
grade and volume of the known for
eign copper reserves are much great
Ter than our known domestic re-
serves.
We shall also point out that the
price of copper today is below it's
average S0-year selling price, while
the manufactured product used by
the consumer is above it's average
3O-year selling price. Which means
that the eastern manufacturer is get
ting more than he is entitled to when
compared with the present plight of
the copper miner
With all these factors in our favor,