Milford chronicle., 1926-08-27
to do better and that the worst of the
agricultural slump is over.
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SOUTH ORIGINALLY FOR
PROTECTIVE TARIFF

PROTECTIVE TARIFF
The South was originally pro-
tective tariff section, and the first
great Southern leaders of the coun-
try were protectionists according
to Harry NJ. Wurzbach, the active
Republican Congressman from Tex
as, who asserts further, in the cur
rent issue of the National Republic,
that the South has as great need
for protection now as it has ever
had in it's history. In concluding his
interesting article Mr.. Wurzbach
says:
"Now finally in summing up it
may be stated first that the great
leaders of the South in the early
days, Madison, Jefferson and Jack
son, were protectionists, second, that
before the Civil War and before the
slavery question had absorbed all
other issues, the South was at least
equally divided in sentiment on the
tariff, and that, too, in the face of
the fact that the protectionists were
at disadvantage upon the issue,
the Democratic Party there having
espoused the popular and growing
pro-sIavery cause of the South.
"It is a matter of common knowl-
edge and needs no proof that during
the period of 1886 to 1S4S the South
had little if any foreign competition
in-the American market so far as it
slave labor-produced farm and ranch
products are concerned. Today the
South depends upon free labor for
! it's production with high labor cost,
and it is forced to meet in home
markets the competition of the
! world. Then it had no manufacturing
worth mentioning; now it is in
about the same infant industry" po-
sition that New England occupied
hundred years ago, and the South is
just in as great need of its manu-
featuring interests being protected
now as New England was then.
"NIy conclusion is that if the South
had any reason at all in the past
to favor the policy of protection it
is all of those reasons and many
more to favor it now"
FOR NEARLY forty years Mrs. A.
M. Jones wrote the local news letter
from Greenwood for the Milford
Chronicle, with great regularity
each week, and it had become a fix
ed part of the news columns. About
a year ago Mrs. Jones health COM
menced to fail and the end came
last Friday, August 20, 1926, at the
Marshall Hospital, in Milford, where
she was a patient. Mrs. Jones had
been identified actively with the bus
mess and local affairs of Greenwood
for all of her matured life, and was
respected by all who knew her per-
sonally. Nearly all Of the old-ttme
local writer's from neighboring towns
to the Milford Chronicle have pass
ed on, leaving vacancies in the corps
which will be filled by others; yet, It
is more difficult to get the right at
titude towards recording local news
for publication than is generally un-
derstood. Preparation Of the copy,
writing news, but not gossip, refus-
ing to write personal items which
make the individual ridiculous, or
other such stories as are inflicted on
reporters each week by those who
are not responsible, all has to be
considered by those who write reg
ularly the local happenings OF any
community. For these and other
\ reasons, it is difficult to fill the va
cancy in d corps of correspondents
to a weekly paper, such as the Mil
ford Chronicle, where the news must
be reliable and proper for pubica-
ton. For the passing of an old
friend there is always regret, but
for the business side there is actual
loss in service, which requires time
and in many instances, much exper-
imentation to get the right mental
ity to enter the corps Of local WA
ters. So, the severing Of connec-
tions brings responsibility to the
management as well as to the local
clientel which was served.
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