Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-01
REDF|ELD SPEAKS
AT ROUS|NG RALLY
New York Congressman Says
Protection Theory Is but
a Fallacy.
STIRS AUDIENCE AT BIG
"HAUSSLING WEEK" MEET
Other Noted Orators Address
Big Crowd at Metropol-
itan Theatre.

Dramatically picturing the condi.
tons that exist in the mines ant
mills in various parts of the country
Congressman William G. Redfeld, o!
Brooklyn, one of the nations leading
manufacturers, and expert on tariff
spoke for nearly an hour to an audi
ence that packed the metropolitan
Theatre last night.
The meeting was held in connection
with the celebration of "Haussline
week. by the Third ward. The ca
pacity of the theatre, which seats
1.S00, was taxed, and several hundred
were refused admission. The con
gresham told of visits to the opera
tors in the mills at Lawrence. He
was shown the shanties in the real
of dwellings in alleyways in Law
renee, and when he asked a news
paperman if the millworkers lived
there he was told, mo, they barely
exist"
He told of how the father, mother,
sons and daughters. all or the latter
over IA years, work in the mills, and
that the youth was robbed of his
manhood.
Judge Simon Hahn presided, and in
opening paid a glowing tribute to
the late Vice-President.
He referred to Mr.. Sherman as a
faithful servant of the nation. Rabbi
Abraham G. Messing, of Chicago,
shared the honors with Congressman
Redfeld and spoke for half an hour.
Mayor Haussling, Congressman Wal
ter I. Mccoy and Assembly Candi-
date Simon L. Fisch also spoke. 2
Congressman Redfeld said in part:
No Longer Industrial Infants.
"Our opponents urge that American
manufacturers cannot compete with
those of Europe because of the lower
wages paid in Europe. This, they say.
European goods cost so much
less that we need a tariff wall to pro-
tect our industries against such COM
petition.
"As recently as 1890 there might
been doubt of our competing
power, but that doubt exists no
for the pigmy of 1890 has be-
come the giant of 1912. Instead of
shipping abroad 5000, 900, 900 of manu-
features yearly, we are now sending
81, 200, 600, 900, doing every two
months what in 1890 it took us a year
to do-shipping American manufac-
lures in the very teeth of European
competition at the average rate of
what it is alleged we cannot do we
are in very truth daily doing. One
half of all our export sales are of
goods manufactured or partly manu-
featured in American shops.
eff, then, the need for a tariff wall
it is for protection against the
very nations whom, in the open field
of commercial competition, we +
meeting on even terms all over the
world. 1t passes my comprehension
how I need protection against the in
dustries of France when I am selling
goods in France against French COM
petition. I cannot e how my bust
ness needs protection against Belgian
competition when we are selling goods
in Belgium; now how the attack of
England in commercial contests need
be feared when we are successfully
in the English markets.
For example, we have just sold rails
to Manchester against the competition
of Sheffield.
"a recent copy of a leading paper
devoted to the export of American
manufactures carries the advertise
ments of sever hundred American
factories which are competing abroad.
covering almost every line of Amer
lean industry.
VIII Increase Exports.
80 far then from American work.
having aught to fear in the race
that must be run in the worlds
markets, they may have splendid
confidence in themselves and their fu-
ture, for it is their skill, their brains,
their efficiency which makes possible
that which we are now doing. If.
then, by a moderate and gradual re-
duction of the tariff, the three handi-
which our industries carry r
to be lessened, SO that machinery
and material and factories will cost
less, does not the door of opportu-
nifty to q larger industrial life swing
luO ORchs Ii VIC LldNC uOllO pAgSOOs-
900, 900 in competition with Europe
her W ground with the load we
have carried heretofore, why can
not this become two thousand or
more millions If the load is taken
away? The door thus opened means
more goods sold at home and abroad,
for everywhere a lower price means
larger consumption, and the manu-
facturers who must fill these ex-
panded markets, having more work
do, will have more employment
not less, and the wage which has
proven so efficient and economical in
difficult market is not likely to be
lessened as things become easier.
1.-THE cotton industry has an aver
age of Sc per cent, duty protecting
it; the wooden industry an average
protection of 30 per cent. Yet these
are the two great industries which
pay the lowest wages. On the other
hand, the shoe industry has sub
stantially no protection-merely a
revenue tariff Of 10 per cent. or Is
per cent. on it's products, which gives
but a trifling protection, and this in
dustry it is hat pays the highest
wages in Massachusetts,, where it
finds it's centre, and whose products
are sold all ove the world.
Finally, let not the DOGGY of what
is called free trade" scare sensible
men longer. No one proposes 1t. 1t
is known by those who cryeth aloud
to be a false cry of wolf Wnere there
is no wolf. We must have revenue
and a very large part of that revenue
must come from a tariff. There is
no other known way. The Democrat
ic campaign is in the hands of
thoughtful, experienced men of bust
ness. largely Interested thamsalvas