The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01
PREDICTS STILL
GREATER GROWTH
Secretary of Commerce Red6cld
Optimistic Over Country's
Trade Prospects.
EDUCATION NEEDED
With Higher Efficiency, He EN-
poets United States to Lead
All Other Nations.

Pittsfeld. Mass, MAY 3l.-Sccretary
iledacld OF the Department OF Com
merce. speaking ut a banquet here to-
night. rendered by the Democratic city
coIJmit;ee, denied the contention that
American manufacturers could not
compete successfully abroad, and de-
ciarcd Chat on the other hand, they
were dong So more and more success
fully. lie pointed 10 a continuous
growth in the business OF American
manufacturers abroad beginning with
Il total OF S44$o0o,000 in 1892 to an
estimated total of l.50o. 600, 600 in 1913.
He predicted still greater growth
with tho elimination OF what he
termed 'unSyStematized management
"A new freedom for American in
duStlies," he said. was the affirmative
test to which the Democratic party
had set It's hand.
stands for Reductions.
at stands for Industrial education
and for Federal aid To it," said he. 1T
stands for the reduction of the taxes
not only upon food. but upon the
means Of earning: that is to say, upon
buildings, upon machinery, and upon
materials, which. together. compose
the fundamentals OF our industrial
life. 1t does not stand for rcduc-
ton of wages, because ii knows that
American economic history has taught
as perhaps its greatest lesson that the
highly paid workman. we'll equipped
and well treated and we'll fed. is the
cheapest producer in the world. else
with our handicaps we should not be
selling sl.5C0.U00.0 600 abroad now
Nh through tho ten years since
1902. there has existed high tariff
in this country. No one VIII deny
that this has kept prices OF buildings,
machinery. and materials at Il much
higher level than they arc abroad.
The owner of a great wooden mill in
protesting against the reduction of the
tariff now proposed. has urged that
caCh of these three items costs him
q great deal more here than In Europe.
Say they do: no one doubts il. There
fore, II appears TO he the truth that
Notwithstanding what some men would
call severe handicaps in the way OF
more costly machinery, more costly
buildings. and often more costly ma
tsrials. the results OF which | spca X
40 YOU have been worked out.
Due To High Efficiency.
How is ii that in spite OF greater
expense iii these three important di-
rcctions we have yet managed to sell
'"ads abroad in competition with the
world at the rate OF about 81, 5OD, OUU =
coo q year in manufactured goods
ainne' this year? 1t is because OF the
high efficiency Of our well paid labor
when combined with the fne mechani-
cal equipment OF many Of our fac.
tories. observe / do not say OF al
our factories for IL is unfortunately
not true OF all our factories
We have industries that are high
u efficient. as. for example steel
though in this industry there are wide
variations in efficiency In other in
dustries we have Individual factories
that arc highly efficient, while Others
are less so. You will lind. for ex-
ample, In various lines of machinery
one factory selling its goods all over
tho world. and another selling none
outside the United states, and yaria
tons Of efficiency exist from 80 per
cent OF good standard mp TO 30 per
cent and even higher Our factories
arc Very much unlike. and 5000
many Of them have gotten along some.
how at 4 rather high cost Ia the pub
lie in the price Of the goods they
make, because. being free from FOR.
eign compcaition, they have not had
to bc efficient
Bug these are not the only handi.
caps that have troubled our Industries
We have almost wholly lacked Indus.
trial education" we siill lack il
sadly We sp@nd"a lot of money turn.
ms boys and girls out into the world
quite unframed 10 do anything in par.
ticular Yet. docs not the very fac
or the wonders that have been worked
despite such distractions point for
ward 10 the times when wonders We
undreamed shall come TO pass ono,
these distractions are removed?
!rentcr Development Possible.
II Tor condition in which most o
our industrial plants come under tn
head OF what is called 'unsysteinatizet
management We substitute another
where merely in order To exist. plant
must become systematic In their meth
obs II FOR the ignorance as to COS
ana the cHrelcSSncSs as TO waste. which
sun prevails too much In mauv a fac
tory. there shall be substituted intelli
gent care iI both directions. if 70
the taxes which have made the cos
81 machinery and buildings and ma
ierla!s excessive, we may substitute
SNstem which shall reduce these costs
II Tor the general ignorance OF GU
young working people of any defnit
occupation we may Substitute IN
trained hand ana instructed mind q
Intelligent young men and women: II
SAY, Nc may do all these things. yh
may not our commercial position il
me world. already mighty, become In
mightiest@"