The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-30
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Redfeld Seeks Way to Pro-
tect United States
Industries
TARIFF HAS
LITTLE PART
Means of Prevention Will Be
Chiefly Eth
cal

Washington, Sept. 30.-The United
States is not to be made the dumping
ground for cheap foreign products art
err the European war has ended. When
the great economic revolution sets in
it will find this country prepared to pre-
vent the unloading of low priced goods
from Germany and other countries upon
cur shores.
So declared Secretary of Commerce
Redfield yesterday.
THE question is no longer whether
we shall prevent this or not-but how
we shall prevent it," he said.
With this statement yesterday Sec
rotary Redfield outlined briefly what
this country can do toward preventing
at least one of the exigencies which
will face American manufacturers at the
close of the war.
And from the plans which are now
thrashed out by Redfeld and Trade Com
missioner Chairman Davies it appears
that the tariff will play very small
part in any possible economic readjust-
ment.
aIn fact" Mr.. Redfeld said, "the issue
should be met from an ethical stand
point and not from an economic stand
point at all.
"To increase the tariff might seem
to be the simplest and easiest way, but
that merely results in American peo-
pie paying more money for the product.
This Is unnecessary. We have all the
machinery and goodly number OF laws
TO handle the situation on an ethical
basis entirely.
"For instance, if after the war is over
it is seen that a movement Is under
way to ship foreign goods 10 this eoun-
try in great quantities and sell them
here at a price below which we can pro-
duce them that movement can be
checked.
AT the present time no goods can
be shipped to this country from any
foreign country without manifest
signed BY our consular agent in that
country approving the cargo. II for
eign countries attempted to ship goods
into this country at greatly reduced
price our consular agents could demand
the right to investigate the means Of
the commodity to see if the
manufacturer was selling at a lower
price than he should.
IF the agents were refused the right
to make such an investigation the Amer
lean consuls could then refuse to sign
the manifests and the products could
never leave the ports for the United
States.
There would be chance, OF course,
that some goods might get by the Amer
lean agents. To meet this situation,
Congress could pass a Law making il H.
legal for any one in the United States
TO buy or sell goods shipped into this
country in an effort to undersell Amefi'
can manufacturers"
From this il would seem that Secre-
tary Redfield viii favor having an anti.
dumping clause Incorporated in the pres
ent Underwood Simmons act, as the best
step for Congress 10 take at its next
session.
II Is understood that Underwood, Da-
vies and the president and the others
who have held a number Of conferences
upon the question OF industrial condi-
tons in the states viii not be persuaded
70 favor any important changes IN the
present tariff other than indicated, UNI
less il be- the suspension Of the free sug-
ar schedule.
This schedule i 10 become effective
May 1. 1915. and the only ground for
the latter suggestion Is the persistent
intimation that i heard in various OH
cial quarters. According to these inti-
nations, however, II the sugar tariff j.
continued Il will be only temporarily
and for the purpose OF meeting a revenue
emergency created by the war.