Show e ic sa Maintaining Protection as a N National Policy and Not as a Sectional One By Dy SENATOR P. P J. J McCUMBER of North C 7 Si J JIn In reading some of the cas eastern tern press comments comment a pertaining to the finance committee I have been somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what surprised at the expression of fear sometimes sometime Yr b indicated that the increasing membership of oC that comb committee committee com com- from Crom the western estern section of the country and the increasing activities of western senators in shaping shaping shaping shap shap- ing legislation might possibly endanger the stability a of the country and weaken the principle of protection to our American industries ries a policy upon which depend depend de de- pend in a great degree the prosperity of the people S and the consequent stability of our institutions Tins This fear car seems to be based upon the assumption that there are some radical differences between the interests of oC the East and those of the West I 1 fail to recognize any differences Whatever er may be the provincial ideas of some few of the people of either section the great mass of thinking persons persons per per- sons SOll know that their interests are concurrent We are one country and andone andone andone one people The vitalizing blood of commerce must flow Y with equal freedom freedom freedom free free- dom through the whole bod body politic We arc are a big country and it is a long o othe distance c from the Atlantic to the thc Pacific We of the West for man many years have been trying to adjust our lenses to enable us to sec see and and understand the thc eastern situation From what I J have read rend of late in some of our metropolitan dailies of the Atlantic states 1 I think we may be excused if we wc mildly suggest to some some- of them that they so adjust their optics s as to see sec not only over the Alleghenies but also that vast empire watered by bj the Mississippi and its tributaries and that further region reaching to t our OUT Pacific coast Come what will we must mast maintain the protective policy in this countr coun cairn coun- tr try But nut we must maint maintain in it a as a national policy and not as a sectional one Dale While hile it is impossible b by reason of varying g conditions to give every cry commodity ty exactly the thc same degree of protection we fe should measure up to that standard just as nearly as we can can- |