Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-28

there is no question but that we are
entitled to and shall receive pro-
lection Yet it will require unceas-
Cameron and all of us to win, for
the domestic manufacturer of copper
products has more than one hundred
millions of dollars invested in foreign
copper mines. He is not alone in
terested in his manufacturing profit
but also foreign mining profit as
we'll The average manufacturer
within this country cannot import
his raw product free of duty, hence
he has but little money invested in
foreign resources. The copper mani
facturer occupies a special ana favored
position at present compared with
other manufacturers. In consequences
he will fight most strenuously in
order to maintain This unusual and
privileged advantages, We do not be-
grudge the manufaScturer a reason
able profit. On the other hand, he
should recognize the Fairness of the
copper miners demand for an Ameri-
can standard of living.
The copper miner. is not alone in
tic copper mining industry. He is
joined in this demand by the purely
Independent domestic producer of
copper. The following letter ex-
cerpt from the president of two of
cur largest Arizona producers of cop
per is interestingly corroborative of
the miners demand for protective
tariff.
"First, millions of dollars of Amer
lean investors during the past ten
years have been expended in the de-
velopment of copper deposits in South
America, and millions more are look
ing towards Africa for investment.
The copper districts of the United
States are neglected. Prospecting,
has ceased because the possible re-
turn on foreign investments is vastly
greater than upon domestic invest
ments, yet the greater field is un-
scratched except for what appears
on the surface.
Second, electrolytic wire bars are
being delivered in California from
Chile, although similar cathodes are
produced in Arizona and would have
to be carried only from three to 500
miles to reach the California market"
Excerpt, letter dated May 10, 1925,
from Gordon r. Campbell to Hoval
A. Smith,.
The writer of the foregoing is the
executive head of copper organiza-
tion that has brought over Is mil
lions of dollars for development pur-
poses into the cpoper areas of Ari-
zona the past 25 years; is today
head of an organization that pro-
duces rs per cent of Arizona's an
nual production of copper. For the
signal and all-embracing prosperity
his organization has brought to tens
of thousands of Arizona citizens in
the past and the present it behooves
us to dwell thoughtfully on the facts
so concisely stated, and give heed to
the menacing warning these facts
embrace.
When an indus trial friend of ours,
whose friendship reaches back a quar-
ter of a century and who today is
one of Arizona's very best indus
trial friends, is still wiling to pour
millions into the unexplored copper
areas of our state, we should pause,
indeed, give detailed heed to the
warning conveyed, with the hope and
prayer that through the medium of
a protective tariff on copper we shall
ever henceforth retain this valued
friendship of the past and present.
Attention has been directed to Il
certain parallelism existing between
the wheat growing and copper MIN
ing Industries of the United States,
due to each possessing an exportable
surplus
There is no basic parallelism be-
tween these two industries The
wheat grower cannot anywhere near
approximate the volume of his an