The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-24
REDFIELD BRINGS
 CHEERING MESSAGE
 TO NEW HAvENERS
Dispassionate Discussion of Cabinet Officer on Man
 ufacturing Conditions Private Interests Must Bow Tn Obedience to Veal of
 Whole People

| New Haven, Conn, Jan. 24-An a-f- frmative view of business was the key note of a speech Secretary Red-
 field made here today before the Chamber of Commerce. He praised | American manufacturers for their
 ready readjustment to new conditions and declared that the food of foreign manufactures which it was predicted l would flood American markets with the passage of the new tariff had not materialiZed.
 Aye. but you say. look at the de- pression. Well; look at it, said MT.
 Redfield. Look at it sanely, with l out passion and without prejudice. What do you see But before you an swer let me ask A second question: 5I Where are you looking? Get the horf-
 zon big enough, else your picture will be but partial and may mislead. Where then is trade depression found? ? In India, in Argentina, in Brazil, in Germany, in England Where is 1t lleast2 In America! Where is the rising tide from such depression as
 exists felt first and most :? Here in America Leave aside the pitiful tparables of the prophets of evil who
 for political purposes preach national fpain- Look calmly at the truth. America suffers from no disaster. She lis better off when the worst is said than her sister nations. From the bottom, which at most was not deep, she had already risen far. and is ris- ling. There was just cause for hesi- tation in that which has happened in the past. The Eeactions from he Bal
 kan war. which had tied the purse 1strings of Europe and shut down its mills, was naturally reflected here in some small degree.
 .It was perfectly proper that busi-
 ness men. whose output was afEected more or less by the new tarif, should give thoughtful heed how to, readjust
 themselves to it. They would have
 been foolish had they done otherwise. Frankly the men who dreaded tar1n | Changes most have said, and are say ing that readjus tments are over and the new is at it's worst nothing like T as badeas they reared and that at its best is helpful
 Europe begins to see its way out lof it's deep depression, and last and best Of all you know thatsssympathy with all that is finest and best M business life and with the highest | ideals of our industrial activities Ifs regnant at the seat of government
 This is no longer the day of doubi . but the hour of hope.
 l "Too much perhaps there Nhas been : the spirit on one side that what is 3 is wrong and the assertion on the | other hand that what is, Is right. l Big Business has often failed to see 5 that it's methods have aroused a just popular resentment and that many : Iof its past ideals and purposes were I impossible and -intolefab1e in & de !, mocracy.
 sI rssThe men of financial and corporate = power have had to learn that the veal Of the whole people is a supreme
 law to which their private interests
 must obediently bow. The business
 conscfence has itself awakened to g
 trea1ization of wrongs committed in the 5 name and on the alleged behalf o1
 commerce and industry and will toler- ate these wrongs no more. Even the men of might in finance are becoming men of light and leading in the neces. sary establishments that are pending The business conscientiousness is be.
 coming less individual and more o. cia1.
 ? s'I am not here, therefore on any
 lerrand to arouse the business con. , science or to raise the banner of re volt against business procedure cer. /. | tafnly not to denounce or to destroy The sense of what is fit. the owl ; ledge of what is due to their own hon :, Tor, is now so keenly alive among tn, = business community that when tn, achievements of our recent discussion
 EshalI have been finally wrought int.
 law they will be- in my belief no
 Hound wanting in willingness and pow s Ter to take up such further work a. . imay femain.''
 To Secretary Bryan, he asserted, be !. longs high credit for 1his cooperation . with the Department of Commerce il " smoothing the way to business pro . gress in foreign markets. MT. RedfeI . spoke at length on new methods adopt . ed by the department to bring busi r ness men in closer touch withE fbotl !, domestic and foreign trade oppoftuni z ties.
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