The Carbon County news., 1930-05-01

rifices in behalf of the rest of the
world in the last thirteen years, and
the present situation within our own
country would indicate that in looking
after our own we have job that fully
takes the ability of American states
manship.
Mr.. Shelley believes in the protec-
tive policy of Washington, Clay, Lin
coin and Roosevelt, for the benefit of
the American farmer and wage earn
er. The tariff question has become
labor question. With the interna-
tionalization of finance, manufacture
and trade, protection has ceased to
be of interest to most branches of
"big business, for the reason that
international finance with vast in
vestments abroad is more interested
in building up wealth and credit a.
broad than at home, in order to pro-
| tect these vestments-while inter-
nationalized industry, unlike the Am
erican wage Garner and farmer, can
work when it pleases, in the cheap la
Dor markets of other lands to more
advantage than in our country of
higher production costs. We have
therefore seen that both organized
farmers and organized workmen have
shifted their position on the tariff
question, while internationally organ
lied business has taken the anti-pro-
lection end of the argument. Mr..
Shelley stands for tariff on all COM
petitive manufactured products ap-
proximately the difference in labor
costs at home and abroad, without
which we must shut up shop indus
trially or submit to the lowering of
wages to the European and Asiatic
scale; and on agricultural products
for tariff additionally that will take
into account the differences in cost of
land, taxes, material costs, living
costs, and transportation.
This is a matter of special import
ance to Montana. In soil and miner
al wealth Montana is the peer of Pen
nsylvania. One third the size of Mon
tana, Pennsylvania has seventeen
times the population-in other words
fifty times the population per square
mile. While this is partly due to the
greater age and more favorable geo
graphical situation of Pennsylvania, il
is evidence that in industrial develop.
ment great possibilities lie before
your state if our national growth is
not stunted by destruction of ou'
home market through unfair foreign
competition. 1t may be added that
the industrial growth of Pennsylvan
ia is partly due to the fact that fol
years Pennsylvania has sent to the
Senate practical men who have look
ed out for the interests of Pennsyl
vania. The future of Montana de
pends not only on the utilization o.
) her resources in coal, silver, chrom,
and other minerals, oil, lumber, cat
tie and sheep, flour and her farm pro
duction, but in the development O.
other resources as yet scarcely touch
: ed. There is today natural tendenc,
toward the decentralization of indus
, try. which should be speeded by boil
public and private effort, that offer
J special hope to your state. Becaus
| of the close relationship betweel
government and business, it is i'm
portant that Montana should have a
, Washington one who will make thes
problems his special study and basi
of effort. Certainly there can be n
{ Improvement if the chief products 0
: Montana are left open to the com
5 petition of foreign producers, with a.
l unlimited cheap labor supply and wa
: ter carriage much cheaper to our Sc,
: board states than is available to tn
producers of your state.
The necessity of a tariff on crud