Show national affairs written for the park record by 11 I 1 A special dispatch from jacksonville to 0 o the new york world archenemy arch enemy ot of the he policy of protection gives the startling information that democratic florida la a a appealing ap pp ealing to a republican administration at washington tor for a tariff to protect its citrus and vegetable industry from a ruinous foreign competition looking across the mexican cali border down into cuba the dis dispatch patch h continues and viewing increased acreage given over to the exclusive production ot of vegetables and fruits on which florala heretofore has held a monopoly growers throughout this state are alarmed the world dispatch continues with the information that petitions are being circulated to ask congress fot for EL a special protective tariff and that growers la ili a recent meeting declared that unless they g got t additional tariff they would he be doto lorce to quit tiling the soil and turn their ground into pasture tor for grazing cattle the growers declared further that flordee Is helpless against the competition of mexico which lias has in recent years invaded maikits east of the mississippi sis api sippi I pi during this year atvas it was said mexico marketed more than cars ot of tomatoes in the united states and more than 1000 cars of english peas back in ili 1922 the total shipments ot of vegetables fro irom m mexico to the states amounted only to BOO cars on the ther other hand in 1922 the flordia tomato crop amounted to while this year it totaled only 3 the he 0 pineapple industry it is said I 1 has i s jen been 0 ruined in flordis because of cheap european competition and mexican ons eire are putting flordia onions out of business 0 evidently flordia Is suffering from something in addition to a deflated winter resort boom and incidentally it may be said that flordia is not the only tate state so inconvenienced texas and other southern states are feel feeling I 1 the weight ht of cuban and mexican compe competition tf lon an and the political carrlos warr lois los in those sections ot of the country are beginning 1 to stir restlessly in the tree free trade trenches now the flordia and ana texas growers are agriculturists and farmers just as are the sugar beet growers of colorado and utah closely akin to these in sympathy are the dairying industries of the northwest and the sheep and rattle cattle industries dus tries of the west altogether these form a pretty respectable group in OUT our total farm industry and they aie are directly as well as indirectly interested to in the tariff to say therefore that the fa farmers ners oi of the country are to be caught in the campaign next year yea r b by y t the be 0 old rd d shopworn shop worn cry of free tr trade de Is au absurd they will not so be caught in the states in which the above named industries flourish and they will not be so raught caught in the grain growing states As a matter of fact the tariff is no longer a northern and eastern issue the action of the flordia growers demonstrates this nowhere has protective tariff sentiment grown so rapidly during the past dozen years as in the south and so lust just as the tariff is becoming something more than a sectional issue it Is getting to be something greater than a mere partisan issue tariff sentiment Is ge growing g in ill the south it if it is losing a anywhere re it Is in some of the financial centers of the country where certain interests are row now more concerned in financing anc ing europe than in promoting new industries in america Amert cB all of which shows that strange things still come to pass in tills this land of wonderful changes CAREFUL CHESTER jeweler of course you want the girls name engraved on the ring william wiiiiam surely but a ah h not too deep I 1 NO rree FREE SERVICE hubby what another new dress how on earth am I 1 going to pay for it wife ill 1 marry you to give you financial advice THE LITTLE VI VIXEN tn im just a poor little chorus girl driven from home said aid the chorine as she sha stepped out ot of her rolls royce 4 S POOR POOR DON here lie the remains of donald machost he grabbed the check and gave up tile 0 ghost aw 4 aw ra rumors IOUS TOASTS buttered its post les ed marshmallows warm va as is i heres howl how I 1 ALL OVER NOW here lie the bones of james Daly HO he was kissing the mald maid on her cute cuta little dimple when in came his bis wife i and started the strife the funeral was as plain and simple |