Show more prote protection C needed deeded I 1 I 1 f remembering how steadily t dily tile the bouthern pou thern states send men to con gross to vote against all al pi elective tariff bills it Is interesting to nl arto in ti ra inita t N C tp 1 w dite t f nest plea that congress cingros s and the corle come to the tl e rescue of 0 the mining industry Ind in noi north th carolina witti higher duties on imported ores orea the observer Otee declares that competing foreign mills it have ave played havoc with domestic producers rs and forced them to close their mines the llie copper mining industry in north carolina it declares irea Is headed for extinction unless congress Con giess does something foreign copper can be laid down in this countey the observer says for less leas than the cost of production at american smelters shelters sm elters rut but it Is not in north carolina alone nor in behalf of tile the raining industry alone that protests are aie being I 1 board against the inadequate taril tariff rates of the haw haul ley C Y smoot law the hie manufacturers of paper protest that their industry Is menaced by th tie a increasing importations of pulp wood pulp and poper paper Aine rIcan sugar suai manufacturers ar aap complaining complain ng that importations ot of foreign refined sugar bugai threaten their industry manufacturers of steel protest agriest dumping ot of foreign n I 1 steel products pic pre ducts on the american market pointing to the fact that there was vas a 50 per cent increase inci ease in lion iron and steel imports in march as compared bilth february reb iuar and calling attention to official reports which show how that in 1031 1931 more than tons ot of hat flat rolled steel and 9 14 tons of all classes of stoel steel were imported and that due to this importation men lost work in the united states ard and so the pro protests tents come rol rolling lingin in with increasing volume not only from producers of raw materials but from manufacturers ot of a score of who declare that th e duties carried in the hawley hav ley smoot tariff liw law are wholly inadequate to preserve them front devast ing foreign competition d one reason for the present inadequacy to thene rates Is tile the tart fact that so HO many of our trade have gone ort oft tile the gold stin standard dard and are consequently able now to buy materials and obtain labor with cheap money in finland for example manufacturers of pulp from I 1 which paper Is made can buy for 1 wl tn at t ilitch would have hae cost coat them 1 40 under the gold standard and go so it gora goes all over europe As a result of depreciated currency in these countries our tariff rates have virtu virtually all ban reduced frona from 30 to 40 pe per r cent in almost innumerable lines of manufacture they are no longer protective p at all to say nothing i of being extortionately high as democratic leaders have persistent 1 ly charged if this condition continued continues continue i much longer american manufacturers rs in many lines will bo be forced into for it is not possible tor for them to compete with cheap forein labor costs aal at the 1 same time tima face the deflated currency differential in favor of imported of 30 to 40 per cent 1 1 there never was any an justification for criticism of tile the clawley smoot bill on the score that it af Cordea too much protection with world conditions as they are now with abing curien cles in five countr coun lp and wath vast of goods Ss as nellt veil as raw materials all over 01 er the world soI ini in an outlet at any an 1 price r cc it is too plain for demonstration tint that the rates lates in tho liv in are aie i 1 1 too low rather lather thin than too high |