The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-09
The New Industrial Day
Address of the Hon. William c. Redfed Before The
Adcraft Club, Of Detroit, March 28, 1912.

broad areas, that there are dark in
dustrial places, that men and women
aye, and children, are confined in fou
spots and driven through long hour
and at pitiful pay for the means no
so much of living as of existence
When ! was thinking OF the theme
on which 1t would be my privilege t.
speak TO you, there came to me tho
recollection of the many neat small
houses that are SO marked feature
of your city, and of the great, airy
gell.lighted shops that here prosper
and II seemed as II here, more thar
in almost any other place, the dawn
of a new industrial day had come
So you and your city are responsible
for my choice of a subject.
1T needs to be said at the very
beginning that it is not my thought
to advocate here any sudden or radi.
cal change in method or action. / be-
lieve in evolution, slow, steady, pa.
tent, progressive, not in revolution
which turns things quickly upside
down. This is case, gentlemen, for
the application of the Scripture
phrase: Come, let us reason to-
gether. More than anything else ]
dread in what should be a sober, SER
ious weighing OF facts and searching
for truth, the entrance OF impotence
or OF prejudice, those twin enemies
OF calm judgment.
1T would be pleasant to linger here
in this bright room, with this good
company, and talk together of themes
OF common interest; but our engage
ments lie elsewhere. and ] shall have
to ask you, at least in thought, to
leave these pleasant surroundings and
to enter in spirit one Of our great
factories and spend perhaps an hour
there. Let US hope that during that
time we shall be unlike those Of old
Of whom II was said that they saw
but did not perceive; for our pur.
pose in going into the works will be
to look closely into what may be seen
there and to think as carefully as we
can about what We shall see. Before
we go, however, let me read you
these few words:
The old mills for all practical runn-
ing purposes are as good as the new.
There are certain wearing parts in a
machine, which, II renewed from
time to time, keep the machine as
good as new. This will apply to all
machinery. Where the mill has a
good machine shop and where the
standard of mechanical conditions is
high, whenever machine is not
right II will be stopped and made
right If this is maintained, age is
not serious"
This is not taken from an inscrip.
tion in old Egypt, nor even from the
records of the Middle Ages. It is,
for all its ancient flavor, an extract
from page 1914 of the report of the
Tariff Board on wool, and is state.
ment made in all innocence and tx.
norance to that board by a manufac.
turer who thinks he is running
modern enterprise. Beside it let rs
put the phrase current in the shop
with which | was for many years Ia.
miliar, original with one of our fore
men-'SiX months ago is ancient
history. Between the spirit which
does not regard a well.preserved old
age in machinery as serious and that
which regards as ancient all that is
a half year past lies a chasm in
thought and the widest possible diff
ference in management. 1t is per.
haps not too much to say that these
opposing ideals may fairly represent
mechanical decrepitude on one side
and efficiency on the other. One is
not surprised to find that the same
volume of the Tariff Board report
shows a large percentage of the ma
chinery in our worsted and wooden
mills TO have been in use over 20
years, What this means in your
thought and mine will be clear TO
others when you and | say TO one
another that the great industries with
which We are in one way or another
connected have made their entire de-
yelopment since the time these ma.
chimes were put in use in our wooden
mills. | do not wish to be grossly
inferential, but you will permit me
to wonder whether the existence OF
80 per cent duty has not some
trifling connection with the amazing