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Show THE CITIZEN SmaoMiaeJ & 15 NAfBNM. M1FMRS Nothing will so emphasize the changes in the political map which have been taking place during the past few years as the coming battle' in Congress on the modification of our tariff laws. Congress has not had a real tariff in a long time, and it is likely that the day of the acrimonious struggle, between the protectionists and free traders as much has departed, for a time at least. The fight will be put on now by those who declare tariff is all right but we must lower ours to promote international peace and friendship o tory we find that the early southern leaders favored protection. But things are changing rapidly in the South. Fine modern cities are springing up and manufacturing is increasing by leaps and bounds. And in some of these Southern States valuable specialized crops are grown which suffer from competition from Cuba, Mexico and the Islands of the West Indies. . Now tlie manufac- turers and the citrus and fancy vegetable growers of the South cannot survive without protection. So the world moves on and men's views change. Certain it is that sentiment on the tariff has changed rapidly during the past few years, and the change has! been all in favor of the protection-ists. Party lines are no longer strictly drawn on the tariff. Formerly the! Republican' Party was the protectionist party and the Democrats were regarded as the free trade or low tariff organization. But there is no longer a real free trade party if we are to judge from the tariff platform adopted by the Democrats' in Houston last summer. 2 There are smiles that make, us happy; there are smiles that make and so on with the lilting tune, but it takes the genuine dimpled illustration of this little Miss to make us understand why they also wrote, There are smiles that fill our world with sunshine. Let us introduce you to Silvia, the "petite daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Rinetti of 147 South 8th East. Portrait by Ida Wilcox. us glad Some of the first advisory opinions we expect Uncle Sam to get from the World Court are that our tariff is too high and our Jones law too stringent. A Chicago woman got on a street 0 car the other day and handed the conductor a transfer that was thirty-si- x years old. That sure was a long time to wait on a corner for a street car. It is reported again that the Prince of Wales will soon marry. Well that proves that he isnt a pa - cifist anyhow. Tom Slick, who started out in life as a mule driver, just sold his oil holdings for $30,000,000. There is one boy who has certainly lived up to his name. Several elements have entered into After the this change of affairs. armistice the country was threatened with a flood of cheap goods and of cheap labor from abroad. It became evident even to many of the former free traders that conditions had changed and that we could no longer compete with Europe even in our own market, and at the same time, maintain our high standard of living, unless our market was protected for the home- - producer. As the years hqye passed this conviction has been strengthened until it has been accepted as an economic fact in Manufacturing has spread into the West, too, and the western farmers have crops which suffer also from foreign competition, and which can be protected in the home market by higher duties. As a result they are going to ask for more protection in the coming session of Congress and are going to get it, justkas are their southern neighbors. Protection, therefore, is no longer a Yankee doctrine. You hear it defended in the South and the West as well as in New England. The high standard of living in America is not confined to any one section, and there is a general realization that it cannot be maintained unless the great home market is saved for the American producer. It will not do to say, of course, that free trade is dead. It survives in the minds of a great many college professors, in the pocketbooks of the importers of such goods as come into competition with American pro- ducts and in the hearts of our who for reasons of divided loyalty or business believe that we ought to build up Europe even at the cost of American ' But other changes have been going prosperity. Each of these groups has its following and they will unon. The Democrats formerly dependdoubtedly be heard in the coming ed on the South for free trade support, althought, going back in hisT .sessions of Congress. . |