The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-06-03
Says They Are Competing
Abroad More and More Sue
cessfu|Iy
is CONTINUOUS
In the Business of American
Manufacturers Abroad =
Predicts Still Greater Growth
For the Future.
by the Associated Press

Pittsfeld, Mass, May 3l.-Secre-
tary Redfield, of the Department of
speaking at a banquet
here tonight. rendered by h Demo
cratic city committee, denied the con-
tention that American manufacturers
could net compete successfully abroad
and declared that on h other hand,
they were doing so more and more
successfully. He pointed to a con-
tinuous growth in the business Of
American manufacturers abroad be-
ginning with a total Of $443, 900, 900 n
1892 to an estimated total of $780,
100000 in 1913. He predicted a still
greater growth with elimination OF
what he termed "unystemitized nan
agement."
"A new freedom for American in
dustries,'' he said. was the affirma-
tive test to which the Democratic
party had set it's hand
Industrial Education.
"It stands for industrial education
and for Federal aid to it," said he.
ut 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 COM
fpose the fundamentals Of our IN
| dustrial life. It does not stand for a
reduction of wages because it knows
that American economic history mas
taught as perhaps it's greatest lesson
| that the highly paid workman, we'll
| equipped and well-treated and we'll
led, is the cheapest producer in the
| world, else with u handlcaps we
should not be selling $1,000. 100000
abroad now.
Ten Years Of High Tariff.
"An through the ten years slncc
1902 there has existed a high tariff IN
this mi No one will deny that
this has kept prices of buildings, ma
| chinery and materials at a much
higher level than they are abroad.
| The owner of a great wooden mill
in protesting against the reduction Of
the tariff now proposed has urged that
each of these three items costs MIN
a great deal more here than IN
Europe. Say they do; no n doubts
it. Therefore, it appears to be 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 materials, the results OF Whlch
I speak to you have been worked
out.
l EXPENSE Ill JIcSC IAS
rections we ave yet anage 70 sci
goods abroad in competition with tne
world at the rate Of about Sl,3oO,
100000 a year in manufactured goods
alone his wear? 1t is because OF the
high efficiency Of our well-pald labor
when combined with the n me
chanical equipment Of many OF ooi
factories. Observe 40 not say .
all our factories for it IS un1ortu'
,a+olr nor true of all our factories.
Highly Efficient.
W. have industries that are hlSn'
" efficient as, for example, steer
though in this industry there are WIZ
variations in efficiency. In other IN
dustries we have individual 1ac1orle:
that are highly efficient, Wnile other'
are less SO. OF Will find, for eE
annie. in various lines Of machiner,
one factory selling its goods all owe
the world and another selling nom
outside the United States. and varla
tons Of efficiency exist from ~ pc
.Icent Of a good standard up TO - pc
cent and even higher. Our factorle
are very much unlike and a goo
MANY of them have gotten aloni
somehow at a rather high cost TO tn
nuh1ic in the price of the. goods the
make because being free from forelgl
[competition they have not had to b
efficient. !.
But these are not the only nandi
: Leans that have troubled our industrie:
5 We have almost wholly lacked in
: dustrial education and We still lack
! sadly, We spend a lot Of money turn
: ing boys and girls out into the werl
4 quite unframed. to do anything i
: particular. Yet, does not the yer
fact of the wonders hat have bee
. worked despite such obstruction
! point forward to the times whe
wonders yet undreamed shall come I