Evening journal., 1915-09-29
WILL KEEP CHEAP
FOREIGN Goods OUT
Secretary Redfield Declares
U. S. is Not to be Eu-
ropes Dumping Ground
CONSULS, NOT TARIFF,
TO BE THE AGENCY

|By a United Press Staff Correspond
ent.
Copyright, 1915, by the United Press.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 29.-The
United States is not to be made the
Dumping ground for cheap foreign
products after the European war has
Ended. When the great economic
evolution sets in, it will find this
country prepared to prevent the un-
loading of low-priced goods from
Germany and other countries, upon
bur shores.
So declared Secretary of Commerce
ledheld to the United Press today.
The question is no longer whether
shall prevent this or not-but how
shall prevent it,. he said.
With this statement today Com
lerce Secretary Redfield outlined
rieiiy what this country can do to-
|Nard preventing at least one Of the
fMgencies which will face American
manufacturers at the close of the
ar.
From the plans which are now being
ilreshed out by Redheld and Trade Com
4 NAN1ANAi h|AdAA man fnNifrf III nlHfNlr
hat the tariff win play very small
ar, in any possible economic readjust-
ient
"ln faot,' Alr Red6eld said. 1.-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
ha. merely results in American people
paying more money for the product
Z This is unnecessary. We have all the
|machinery and a goodly number of law,
E 20 handle the situation on an ethica'
basis entirely.
"For instance if it is seen that a
Smoyement is under way after the wal
. is over TO ship foreign goods to this
country in great quantities and sell then
s here at a price below which we car
Produce them. the movement can b.
checked.
AT present no goods can be ship
bed to this country from any foreign
country, without a manifesto signed
by our consular agent in that coun
Try, approving the cargo. II foreign
countries attempted to ship goods into
4 his country at a greatly reduced
@price. our consular agents could de
nand the right to investigate the
ileans of producing the commodity tc
& see if the manufacturer was selling al
p lower price than he should. If the
fhgents were refused the right to make
Niuch an investigation, the American
tonsuls could then refuse to sign the
nanifests on the goods and the prod
f lcts could never leave the ports fol
he United States.
There would be the chance o
#rourse that some goods might get b!
4 he vigilance of the American agents
To meet this situation. Congress
could pass a law making it Illegal TO
anyone in the United States to bu,
pr sell goods shipped into this coun
Ery, in the effort to undersell Ameri
can manufacturers"
From this, it would seem that Secre
3tary Redfeld will favor having an
anti-dumping clause incorporated il
3the present Underwood-Simmons act
las the best step for Congress to taxi
Nat its next session.
II is understood that Redfield
Davies. the President and others VIII,
Shave held number of conference
upon the question of industrial condi
4tions in the United States. will no
& be persuaded to favor any importan
4 changes in the present tariff. othe
\ than indicated. unless it be the suspen-
sion Of the free sugar schedule
k (which. would become effective May ]
N1916. and the only ground for tn
latter suggestion is the persistent
F intimation that one bears in variou
kofiicial quarters. One thing is cleaI
Naccording to these intimations, how
ever. If the sugar tariff is continued
It will be only temporarily and 70
4 the purpose of meeting a revenu
emergency created by the war.