Evening journal., 1915-08-07
SATURDAY AUG. 7, 1915
pEMOCRATIC aPTTILEss PuBLICIrY.r


IN HE most ubiquitous form of "ptiess publicity"
fostered by the Administration is that Of the
Democratic campaign publicity bureau in the Depart
ment OF Commerce.
Since the passage Of the Underwood tariff law the
Department Of Commerce to the perpetrators
of that outrage the object their enderest soctude
Every wish of the Department has been indulged;
every recommendation of Secretary Redheld has met
with Congressional sanction.
The for this partality is becoming more and
more apparent as the months roll Secretary Red
field is the anointed champion OF the Democratic tariff
policy. He has commandeered the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce (the spearhead the depart
ment" as he terms iD and has pressed government
employees into service With generous allowance
from Congress- dipped from the public purse, he is
running busy little Democratic campaign publicity
bureau as one could wish to see
Note the following items in the appropriations for
the Department 6f Commerce the fiscal year 1916
ITO further promote and develop the foreign and
domestic of the United States. $4,000; field
investigations at home and abroad, S50O00 to pro-
mote and develop tho commerce of the United States
with South and Central America $75OOO for CONNER
cial attaches 100000" All these to he expended
under the personal direction the Secretary of Com
merce. What the Secretary says goes. Here the
snews for hidden advertising Three hundred thou
sand dollars appropriated for purposes Of present
doubtfuy utility at time when economy should have
done ito further promote and develop"
merce after the Democratic law passed. it is
difncult to imagine
The concrete result Of these appropriations. aside
from the money devoted to printers ink publicity is
the appointment of large number OF deserving
Democrats. Of whom have been sent to Europe
as commercial attaches and drawing large salaries
to study commercial conditions which in temporary
abeyance. Others special agents. whose chief func
tion gumshoe around the country, snoop into the
business of manufacturers. and then render reports
partisan and abusive as to be utterly valueless for
economic purposes if their authors had any ideas
respecting the science of The report the
pottery industry in New Jersey and the hosiery
Industry in Montgomery county Pennsylvania, ex-
amples the lengths which these political pets will
go in vnrfying the manufacturers of the country.
Still others being put the payroll to correct
"the methods of collecting export statistics" The
terrific slump in export trade following Democratic
convinced Secretary Redheld that "the satis-
tics OF our export trade are an extent
sufficient to alter at times trade balance
tile transactions which actually in favor into
which appears to be the reverse II is apparent that
Mr. Redfeld received this illumination time after
August 1914 when balance Of trade that month
S16OOoOOO against US, and he sent DR. Frank
R. Ruter. assistant chief of the bureau. to the New
York house fix that little matter The large
exports due TO orders having for the time being,
put that subject in the background Dr. Rutter again
II his desk in Washington
But it is the audacity OF campaign publicity work at
he taxpayers expense which All this Demo-
cratic propaganda. furthermore. is sent out under
Government frank. For months the Commerce
Reports" which intended TO be devoted solely to
matters concerning trade have been carrying pages
Of matter having nothing to do with commerce. and
aduatory of the Administration. In plain words the
public is getting correspondence course. at its own
expense full of partisan teaching designed TO create
favorable feeling toward the Administration and this
whether the public wants it not Mr.. Redheld is
running a Democratic campaign publicity bureau on
'orced subsidization. He will close in 1916