The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-05
FALLACY
OF PROTECTION
Argument Shown in Red
fields Speech.
IS A MANUFACTURER HIMSELF
And Observation-Disclosures
He SpeakS-InStanceS
of Tariff Graft.
TARIFF EXPOSURE TO DATE

(By Tavenner, Special Washing
ton Correspondent of The HeraldD
Washington, July There is
one protectionist argument that
will never again occupy the place in
American politics that it has in the
past.
That is the argument that a
high protection wall is necessary to
enable American manufacturers to
compete in home markets with for
eign manufactured goods.
The reason this stock protection
list argument will never again per-
form the same valuable mission for
the Republicans. is because of
speech delivered in the House by
VIM. c. Redfield, of New York. who
is a manufacturer himself, and who
for IS years has been selling Ameri-
can manufactures in foreign coun-
tries.
Redfeld contended and proved
that the difference in daily wage at
home and abroad should not be the
sole basis of determining the amount
of protection to be applied to a Civ
en- article.
He cited instance after instance
in which he sold articles manufac-
tured by $5-a-day American en-
ployees in the countries where labor
received less than a dollar a day.
Redfeld took the position that
American manufacturers do not
need as much protection as they are
now enjoying Ito protect them from
foreign competition" because they
are successfully competing with for
eign manufacturers in all parts of
the world.
How does 1t happen" demanded
Redfeld. that in a quotation re-
Gently made for machinery to a mine
in Japan the American price was
$215 less than the English price,"
"How does it happen that 720 To-
comotives are running upon the
japanese railways, and upon the
railways of Formosa and upon those
of Manchuria? These ore sold in
open competition with the makers of
Great Britain"
Redfield related an incident be-
tween an American salesman who
recently took a large contract from
the Japanese Imperial State Rail-
ways and one of the managers of the
Imperial Railways shop.
The japanese Official was under
the impression that he could manu-
facture locomotives cheaper than an
American plant because Japanese
wages are but one-fifth of American
wages.
Both men got out their cost
books" said Redfeld, land they
found that the fact was, the labor
cost for locomotives on the same
specifications was three and one
half times greater in the japanese
And this is a perfectly normal fact
and not an abnormal one
Redfeld said when he was in Cal
cutta, India. recently. his agent
pointed to a pair Of American
made shoes he was wearing.
81 paid $3.50 for those shoes"
said the agent. at is the regular
American s. shoe"
Redfeld said that when he re-
turned to New York he found the
same shoe selling on Broadway for
81. shall be glad to give names
and addresses to any member who
inquiries in private.
Redield gave score of similar
instances. II is impossible to do
justice to his remarkable revelation
in this dispatch. Every reader of
this article NAV secure. free of
charge, a copy of the complete
speech, without doubt one of the
most remarkable of its kind ever
made IN Congress. bv writing Hon.
James r. Lovd. Chairman National
Democratic Congressional Commit
tee, Washington. n. C.