Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-06-30
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
BY CLYDE H. TAvENNER.
Washington, D. c., June 20, 1911.


There is one protectionist argument that
will never again occupy the place in Anne
rican politics that 1t has in the past.
That is the argument that high protec-
ton wall is necessary to enable American
manufacturers to compete in home markets
with foreign manufactured GOODS
The reason this stock protectionist areu-
ment will never again perform the same
valuable mission for the Republicans is
as shown in a. speech delivered in the
House by VIM. C. Redfeld, of New York,
who is a manufacturer himself, and who
for Is years has been selling American
manufactures in foreign countries.
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
given article.
He cited instance after instance in which
he sold articles manufactured by $5-a-day
American employees in countries where
labor received less than 81 a day.
Redfield took the position that American
manufacturers did not need as much pro-
lection as they are now enjoying ito pro-
tect them from foreign competition" be-
cause they are successfully competing with
foreign manufacturers in all parts of the
world.
How does it happen" demanded Red
field, that in quotation recently made
for machinery to a mine in Japan the
American price was $215 less than the
English price ?"
How does it happen that 100 American
locomotives are running upon the Japanese
railways, and upon the railways of Formosa
and upon those of ManchuriaY These are
col
in Great Britain"
Redfield related an incident between an
American salesman who recently took a
large contract from the Japanese Imperial
State Railways and one of the MANAGERS
of the Imperial Railways shop
The Japanese official was under the i'm
preston that he could manufacture loco
motives 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 shops than in the
American shops. And this is a perfectly
normal fact and not an abnormal one"
Redtield said when he was in Calcutta,
India, recently his agent pointed to a pair
of American made shoes he was wearing.
IL paid $3.S5 for those Shoes" said the
agent. at is the regular American SIS
SHOE"
! Redfield said that when he returned to
New York he found the same shoe selling
on Broadway for IS. II shall be glad to
give names and addresses to any member
who inquiries in private"
Redfield gave score of similar instances.
1t is impossible to do justice to his remark
able revelation in this letter.
Every reader Of this article may secure,
free of charge, a copy of the complete
speech, without doubt one of the most re-
markable of its kind ever made in Con-
gress, by writing to Hon. James T. Lloyd,
Chairman National Democratic Congress
siOnal Committee, Washington, ID. C.
PRoGREssIvEs On THEIR GUARD.
Progressive Republicans were conspicu-
Gus at the Presidents recent wedding an
niversary celebration by their absence.
Even Roosevelt the man who made Taft
president, was missing The explanation is
this: The prOgressives of course did not in
tend any slight to the President. but actu-
ally feared that If they attended the cele-
bration the White House press bureau
would send out stories to the effect that
thew favored Taft for RECOMMENDATION and
reelection
If n Republican approaches within shout
ina distance of the execntive mansion
these DAYS Mr. Taft's secretarv feeds The
Associated press with the Sne,ys'' the said
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RAILWAYS OvERPAID.
Postmaster General Hitchcock at last
confesses that the government ia overnov-