The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-22
lon HUNT FOR VOTES
SHAW AND BEDE SPEAK IN CHI
CAGO.
Large Crowd Hears Thorn Ascrlbe All
the Good Things to the
G. o. P.-Frank Low
den Presides.

Chicago. June 21.-Secretary of tho
Treasury Shaw and Representative j,
Adam Bede of Minnesota, tonight adj
dressed an immense mass meeting In
the Auditorium. Frank o. Lowden pre-
sided. Both Mr.. Bede and Secretary
Shaw were cordially greeted.
Mr.. Bede began by paying tribute
to Mckinley and Hanna, and said that
their lives should be an inspiration for
the men to go on with the work they
had begun.
Applause greeted his assertion that
the people of the United States sym
pathized with Japan in her struggle
with Russia, because Japan stood for
liberty and higher civilization. Con-
tinuing, he said the Southern people re-
garded the black population of the
South as a great burden to them. In
all the history of the world, he declar-
ed, there had not been another example
of progress such as the black men OF
the South had made in the last forty
years He closed by defending the
Presidents age disability pension order
and said that after all the money paid
to the old soldier was Only redistri-
button of wealth.
Secretary Shaw said in part:
Our opponents lay much stress upon
the fact that some American manu-
features are sold abroad cheaper than
at home. Friends sometimes deny
this and they sometimes apologize for
1t and have in times past Joined our
opponents In recommending a removal
of the tariff from all such articles. 1t
is useless to deny. and in my judg-
ment unwise to apologize and little
short of foolishness to attempt to
remedy the assumed evil in the man
ner proposed by the opposition. A
partisan commission appointed by
Congress to investigate the subject,
with authority to compel the attend
ance of witnesses reported that four
million dollars worth of merchandise.
the product of American factories. Is
annually sold abroad cheaper than In
the domestic market. The report
shows that some of these articles are
protected in this country by patents.
and are not so protected in the for
eign markets. If the supposed evil
as applied to patented articles is
worthy of drastic remedial measures,
the most feasible would be the repeal
of the patent laws.
There is one other important feature
not often recognized. The Republi-
can party has always provided q
method whereby a manufacturer can
have the benefit of free raw material
Tor the production or merchandise ac-
tually imported. Under regulations
prepared by the Secretary of the
Treasury, the consumer of imported
material is allowed to recover back
the duty paid thereon, whenever he
exports the same. or any article man
ufactured therefrom. During the ifs
cal year of 1903, the amounts of draw
backs thus actually recovered exceed
ed five million dollars. A portion of
this was upon goods exported direct
from warehouses and upon which no
labor had been expended. But II the
industrial commission reported more
than four million dollars worth of
merchandise is annually sold abroad
cheaper than at home. the annual
draw back on imported material
would seem to remove any presump-
tion that injustice Is being perpetrat-
ed upon the American consumer
We manufacture thirteen billion
dollars worth per annum. The indus
trial commission reported that an ag-
gregate of four million dollars per an
mum. or one-thlrtieth of one per cent.
of the output of our factories is sold
abroad cheaper than at home; in other
words. this nonpartisan Industrial
commission after spending months in
taking testimony reported that of
every one thousand dollars worth of
manufactures produced by American
| labor, thirty cents worth is sold
abroad cheaper than to our own peo-
pie.