The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-07-04


politics that 1t has In the past.
That is the argument that high
protection wall is necessary to enable
American manufacturers to compete
in home markets with foreign manu-
featured goods
The reason this stock protectionist
argument will never again perform
the same valuable mission for the Re-
publicans, is because of a speech de-
livered in the House by VIM. @. Red
field of New York, who is a manufac-
turer himself, and who for 18 years
has been selling American manufac-
lures In foreign countries.
Redfie.d contended and proved that
the difference in daily wage at home
and abroad should not be the sole bas-
Is of determining the amount of pro-
lection to be applied to given ar
ticle.
He cited instance after instance in
which he sold articles manufactured
by $5 a day American employees in
countries where labor received less
than one dollar day.
Redfield took the position that Am
erican manufacturers did not need as
much protection as they were now en-
joying ito protect them from foreign
competition" because they are sue
cessfully competing with foreign
manufacturers in all parts of the
world.
How does it happen" demanded
Redfield, that in quotation recently
made for machinery to mine in Jap
an the American price was $215 less
than the English price?'
How does it happen that 720 Ameri-
can locomotives are running upon the
Japanese railways, and upon the rail
ways of Formosa and upon those of
Manchuria? These are sold in open
competition with the makers in Great
Britain"
Redfield related an incident between
an American salesman who recently
took large contract from the Jap
anese Imperial State Railways and
one of the managers of the Imperial
Railways shop
The Japanese official was under the
impression that he could manufacture
locomotives cheaper than an Ameri-
can plant because Japanese wages are
but one-fifth of American wages.
Both men got out their cost books"
said Redfeld, ''and they found that
the fact was the labor cost for loco
motives on the same specifications
was three and one-nalf times greater
in the Japanese shops than in the
American shops. And this is per-
fectly normal fact and not an abnor-
NAL one"
Redfeld said when he was in Cal
cutta, India, recently his agent point
ed to a pair of American made shoes
he was wearing.
II paid $3.50 for those shoes" said
the agent 1T is the regular Ameri-
can SIS shoe"
Redfeld said that when he returned
to New York he found the same shoe
selling on Broadway for So. Il shall
be glad to give names and addresses
to any member who inquiries in pri-
vate.
Redfeld gave a score of similar in
stances 1t is impossible to do Justice
to his remarkable revelation in this
dispatch.
Every reader of this article may Sc
cure, free of charge, copy of the
complete speech, without doubt one
of the most remarkable of it's kind
ever made in Congress, by writing
Hon. James T. Lloyd, chairman, Ma
tional Democratic Congressional Com
mittee, Washington, d. G.
Progressives On Their Guard
Progressive Republicans were con-
spicuous at the Presidents wedding
anniversary by their absence. Even
Roosevelt, the man who made Taft
president, was missing. The explana-
ton is this: The progressives did not
of course intend any slight to the
President, but actually feared that II
they attended the celebration the
White House press bureau would send
out stories to the effect that they fav-
ored Taft for denomination and re-
election.
If Republican approaches within
shouting distance OF the executive
mansion these days, Mr.. Taft's secre-
tary feeds the Associated Press with
the "nows" said Republican is strong
for the denomination of the President.
AS the genuine progressives are op-
posed to Taft's denomination, they are
not disposed to take any chances of
being misrepresented.
Popular Elections Endangered
The resolution providing for the
election of United States senators by
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