The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-14
ADVICES SEARCH FOR FOREIGN MARKETS MERCHANT MARINE, TRADE SCHOOLS AND
 INLAND WATER WAYS.
Eastern States Have Lost Business in Coarse Products and Haven't Clinched Hold Manufacture
 of Finer Goods
OF BRIDGEPORT HAVE OUT ING AT SAVIN ROCK AND FINE OLD
 TIME OF IT.

Congressman k. J. Hill told the members of the Bridgeport Manufac- turers Association yeterday at it's an nual outing at Rivercliff. that New England was losing it's hold on indus trial supremacy and that the time was fast approaching when the East would have to do things to intrench itself to maintain it's supremacy. He opened by telling the members of the associa- ton that he was going to give them some advice. He said it would be cheap he knew. but it was this: Save a little money from the profits made in vour home market and use it to make a new market for your goods in other countries where they do not make what you make
 He added in part: "The best advice can give you is to exploit foreign trade. It will steady your industries for dull times do not come concur rently in all countries. Two or three things have occurred recently which causes me to make this suggestion. First, a remark by prominent gov ernment official from the West that New England has lost her opportun- ity to control the manufacture of the more highly finished products of in- dustry.'
 He assumed that she had long ago lost control of production of coarser products. This is true of iron and steel.
 ''The secretary of Commerce and La bor said in a recent speech that it was a. source of regret that New England no longer controlled the finer forms of industry"
 He told how New England only had one blast furnace today. although she had controlled the iron trade 30 years ago. He said that the industry was moving westward and that in 9 years it would pass from .Pittsbure to Gary and from Birmingham to Duluth:
 He added: ''The cotton industry which we once controlled has been lost to the South. Southern mills used more bales of cotton than the mills of North last year.
 There are more shoes being made today in the vicinity of Louisville. Ky, than there is in Massachusetts, al ago.
 'I want to quote from @ speech made by J. Hampton Moore on New England and Inland Waterways, and MT. Moore is from the city of Phila- delphia where it is claimed they use The problem for New England is problem of advancement, or retarda- tion; of submission to existing condl- tions, with all tkeir drawbacks and l1nlCdLlOnS, or or lISlSIonce upon the natural unrestricted, God given meth eds of communication which provide relief which afford competition, and which encourage the development of trade
 And MT Moore is right. for sit uated as we are. hundreds of miles from raw materials and from the cen ter of the market for finished products the problem of transportation is the one which vitally affects our future.
 Take coal for instance. The Bos- ton Chamber of Commerce tells us England was A million tons costing $100, 900. The report is wrong, for the coal cost us s36 100000 and the other s70,00OO0O we paid for transpor- tation. Our western rivals pay a small sum for their coal in comparison to what we pay.
 ''As with coal so it is with all other raw materials, lead, zinc. copper. iron, steel, cotton
 MT Hill declared that New England was entitled to cheaper transportation by right of her geographical position and he declared that the manufactur- ing cities of the middle west were profiting by a lower railroad tariff than the New England States, all though the latter situated on the At lantic ocean was subjected to the same laws regulating the foreign tariff as the western States.
 Last May a vote was taken upon the question of short and long haul charges by the railroads which the New England representatives tried to stiffen up a little. The ballot was on the motion of MT. Washburn to strike out the proposed change and leave the law as it was.
 ''The motion was lost by a vote of 172 to 4S with the New England rep resentatives voting with the minority.
 "As I was leaving the House after that vote ! overheard Congressman Victor Hurdock of Kansas say This vote shows that the sentiment of this House is that New England shall pay us a little more for our wheat and corn
 ''I slapped him on the back and said You are wrong, Vic. It will mean that New England will resurrect her farms and raise her own wheat and corn inside of ten years It has got to come for higher prices of food pro- ducts means the resurrection of New England farms.
 ''Now then shall New England main- tain her industrial position?
 'I suggest that it do so by the tech