The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-24
TENDENCY IS TO
REDUCE COST OF
FOOD and attire
With Coming OF Spring the Unem'
ployed will Find Plenty
TO do.
THERE is NO GROUND
HERE NOW FOR WORRY"
Saws Secretary OF Department OF
Commerce. Backs Statements
With Statistics.
THERE is NO GROUND
HERE NOW FOR WORRY

reylNln3 courage anu uVs'' " ms |
alarm: removal of tariff duties has
resulted in tendency clearly am
openly in the direction of red1et-
ion in she cost of food and clothing;
and climatic conditions, not bust
ness repression. are responsible ior
the number of unemployed in Ne"
York City and other large industlia;
eenters.
This was the message delivered u
the nation tonight by William {,
Rnd,ield. the administration
spokesman on commercial and in
dustral problems before the Wheel
ing Board of Trade. Every state
! rent the speaker made was foitlu-
| d by official statistics and reports
Mr.. Redtield defended the tariff
| act, lauded the currency law and
| with decided emphasis. assured nlS
| audience that the government in
tends 70 help and not hinder legiti-
| nate business.
1T was not strange that the SER
GUS depression all over Europe, Us
yell as in South America, should
have been slightly reflected upon
g in the latter part of last yeac,
he said 1T is OF surprising that
areful men moved cautiously in
business matters pending the necea.
, | airy reimbursement from the new
9 ariff, or that they should have hes
!. tatcd until the final form of The
currency bill was known. 1t Is no
TRANCE either that men should want
o know the attitude of the govern
nent toward legitimate bu.'iness.
n but there is no ground here nov
. OF worry. The surplus OF freiSh
= ears has ceased to grow. II com
h menced about the middle of Januar
~ O decline and has decreased b,
Is about five thousand cars. 1t woul
q be easy to add from numerou
|
te ogrces 10 these favorable state
L nents. have found in the ll2
> fortnight the reports of improving
r business so many and so genera
that it has been impossible for M
to consider them all,
The tendency is clearly an
openly in the direction of 4 redUet
ion in the cost of food and clothin
through the removal CT the TART
tax. Il may be we'll to point on
however, that the costly processt
= of distribution lay a tremendous tn
- upon our consumers, and that
b. my Judgment the single and littl
discussed of carriage alone lays
heavier burden upon our Peep
~. than The total amount paid for raj
NJ. way freights.
no The new tariff has not thus IL
'esultcd in any material increase
mportations of manufactured a
-lCltS " tolilptbo With lhG PIpuuN
If our oyn fact 1ries, but rather !
important effect has been to add
our food supply,
ut remains TO discuss briefly tv
= other clements of the existing g
nation, the prices of commodlti
and the matter Of unemploymer
During the winter months tho
n | sands nj laborers are thrown ont
- work for climatic reasons in
our northern states and It is rC
nal that they shoufd ,eoncentla
vs. for years past they have dCl
in oar large cities and industr
renters. Statements have been me-
and denied to the effect that thO
We're more unemployed in New &c
n this year than usual. T his may
~ true without meaning that there
;, any abnormal excess of unemploJ
al in the whole country. New "
re. City is known to be in the act
mt | spending several hundred millit
&c upon subway construction.
Furthermore II IS we'll kno
mt that New York provides libera
90 for the unemployed through
- vast private and public charit
and this is an attractive factor
1tS some out of work All these
tors would naturally draw abe
employed to that city in mum,
even III excess OF possible emp
ment. The fact that they have
gathered there or in other cite.
en- large numbers this year may or
not have direct bearing upon
oaperity of industry, A Il
part of the unemployed are y
ab.y no: those who work in fac