Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-10

eign ,copper-cost plus the tarlIt equais
the domestic cost.
The Cameron Copper Bill
Senator Cameron's bill, only asks that
the foreign copper producer be cone
PEELED ito market his copper within our
home market on a parity cost basis
with our domestictically produced cop
per. In asking for parity cost compe-
tition, Senator Cameron merely paral-
lels the demand, made by each and
every other protected domestic indus
try within the United States. The pro-
| lection already accorded our innumer-
able present protected industries with
in the mining, manufacturing and ag-
lricultural sub divisions must in all fair
ness be extended to thescopper mining
Industry. There is no doubt that Sena-
| tor Cameron will secure protection for
the copper miner if he is permitted to
i complete the legislative campaign he
mass brilliantly initiated in the United
Estates senate.
Cameron Unrefuted
No champion of free trade copper has
as vet refuted the mass of confirmatory
ldata submitted by Senator Cameron in
i his senatorial addresses showing the
furgent necessity of six-cent duty on
foreign produced copper
Many champions of free trade copper
have indnlged in sneering, loosely
i jointed, ambiguous and generalized de-
Irogatory statements against copper
tariff, but not one of these critics has
I ever attempted asdetailed rebuttal of
K the unassailable economic factors sub
II mftted bysSenator Cameron making evil
aIdeiit the urgent necessity for protect
4 ing our domestic copper mining indus
FRY; has never dared to present def
Unite statement that the Arizona copper
miner today is receiving a decent liv-
able wage; or prove that no menace
threatens the basic industry of our
Estate.
Challenges "Free Trades Advocates
The very fact that the champions of
free trade copper discuss the sun, moon
and the stars and continually drag the
red herring of diversion across the
trail that leads to protection for our
copper miner, makes plain the weak
ness of their plentitudinous champion
ship of free trade" as against "equta-
BILE protection" for our copper miner.
I challenge these supporters of a for
eign policy-which it is when all the
other principal domestic industries are
so universally protected = to advance
arguments in support of the free
trade" position they have assumed and
which they so glibly, yet in guarded
tones, give voice to, when we know
from past and present industrial his
tory that it spells ruin for our copper
miner and the copper mining industry
of Arizona
Rivals Colorado River Problem
Nearly three-fourths of the citizens
of Arizona at this time-now not in the
hazy future-are directly and indirect-
/ ly dependent on the copper mining in
dustry. Their livelihood is directly in
volved,5 and also their very homes. This
problem, is of vital Importance now,
probably more so than that of the
Colorado river or any other economic
problem.. The Colorado river problem
has it's. important place, but any bene-
fits to be derived therefrom are in the
years to come. The vitality important
problem now, confronting the majority
of Arizonans is, how can they survive
through the intervening years-survive
|industrially-until the benefits of the
4 Colorado, river development become ac-
/ tual?s sie
In this connection, I might add that
the copper industry of this state re-
| quires 101cent per pound increase in
the present price of copper in order to
bring it ON a parity price basis with all
other domestically produced commodi-
ties. Even though the Colorado river
power were available today, it would
only effectAa cost saving of about one
fifth of cent per pound of "copper"
with the present known cost of power.
Hence, what the Arizona copper indus
try is now seeking is SO times the saw
ing that any distant future utilization
Of Colorado river power will accord
Protection or Ruin
| If protection is not secured very
soon, the unparalleled economic de-
preston of the past five years within
our copper districts will continue to
4 grow worse and worse. Our copper
miners will continue to labor on and
on at an increasingly insufficient wage,
and our unexplored copper districts will
remain undeveloped. No one within the
copper districts of Arizona can possibly
benefit from a continuance of the pres
ent ru1nouS free trade copper pohcy,
except those who posses vast equities
| in foreign copper deposits. No Ari-
zonan who has his total interests
within the state will knowingly permit
these foreign copper investors or their
hired propagandists to fool him in sup
porting their move to destroy our basic
Industry. These foreign copper inves-
4 tors demand profits irrespective of the
ruin wrought Arizona. Thorough scru-
| tiny for an actuating motive should be
accorde danyone who openly advocates
free trade copper under our present
! e O n 0 m conditions. Some reason
| would exist for such policy if all
,Iother domestieally produced commodi-
ties were on a free trade basis. But it
4 is ruinous discrimination for copper to
remain unprotected when nearly every
/ other important domestically produced
commodity is accorded protection. The
i United States is not a free trade coun-
try The vast majority of it's citizens
believe in protection, and have so be-
Ilieved from the beginning of our gov
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