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Show SOUTH DEMANDS TARIFFCHANGES I THI8 18 THE CLAIM OF DU8INE88 MEN APPEARING BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE Protective Tariff Is Badly Needed In 8outh Says Business Man To Members of Finance Committee Washington Southern business men havo awakened to tho need of n protective pro-tective tnrlff, tho sennto flnanco committee com-mittee was told Monday by John II. Klrby of Houston, Tor., president of tho Southern Tnrlff association. "We're not feollng our politicians on this question any longer," said Mr. Klrby. "The wholo South Is nwnk-ened nwnk-ened on this question." Mr. Klrby said tho South was asking ask-ing for "Justlco." Ho added that It wanted Uio same consideration as that given other sections of tho country, nnd acting Chnlrmnn McCumbcr declared de-clared that tho turirf question would bo treated by tho commlttco ns n nn-tlonal nn-tlonal nnd not a secHonal one. Chnrles h. Claiborne, a New Or-loans Or-loans banker, gnvo It as his' opinion that 00 per cont of tho bankers of the South favored a high protective tariff, tar-iff, "for tho coming year at least." Discussing Dis-cussing conditions In tho IOulBlaria sugar lndustrj'i Mr. Clnlborno sold, on the bas.s of, the J.00 contd a pound on rnw sugnr proposed In the Fordney bill, his bank could not nnd would not make loans to tho Louisiana sugar producers, pro-ducers, and that, with such a tnrlff, tho Loulslann sugar Industry would hnvo to quit tho flold, Mr. Clnlborno said thnt, roports to tho -contrary notwithstanding, Uio public! pub-lic! utilities of tho country, the railroads rail-roads and Industries generally, were ncvec In .n worse condition thnn they nrO( todny. Ills own theory wb that the" United States should devote Its efforts to "saving Itself and not the rest of tho world." "I think It Is national egotism which' makes us think 'wo nro ordained to help nil tho world." |