The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-31

terms ft) and has pressed govern
ment employees into service. With
la generous allowance from Congress.
dipped from the public purse. he
is running as busy little Demo
cratic campaign publicity bureau as
one could wish to see.
Note the following items In the
appropriations for the department
of commerce for the fiscal year
1916: ITO further promote and de-
yelop the foreign and domestic COM
merce OF the United States, $4,000:
field investigations at home and
abroad, $4,000: to promote and de-
yeicp the commerce of the UnitedI
States with South and Central
America. $S75, 900: for commercial
attaches. 100000" All of these
sums to be expended under the per-
sond direction OF the secretary OF
commerce What the secretary says
goes. Here are the sinews for hid
den" advertising. Three hundred
thousand dollars appropriated for
purposes of present doubtful~uttlity
at time when economy should have
been the watchword of the govern
menti What could have been done
ito further promote and develop"
commerce after the Democratic
tariff law was passed, 1t is difficult to
imagine.
The concrete result of these APP
proprfations, aside from large
number of deserving Democrats.
some of whom have been sent to
Europe as commercial attaches and
are drawing large salaries to study
commercial conditions which are In
temporary allegiance. Others as spe-
cial agents, whose chief function Is
to gumshoe around the country,
nv a n.
turers, and then render reports 50
partisan and abusive as to be utterly
valueless for economic purposes.
even IL their authors had any ideas
respecting the science of economy
The report on the pottery industry
in New Jersey and on the hosiery
industry in Montgomery county, "a.
are examples of the lengths to which
these political pets will go in villlfy-
ing the manufacturers OF the coun-
try. -
Still others are being put on the
payroll to correct the methods OF
collecting export statistics" The
terrific slump in our export trade
following Democratic control con-
WINGED Secretary Redfield that the
statistics of our export trade are in
correct to an extent sufficient to
alter at times a trade balance on
mercantile transactions winch ID ac-
tually in our favor into one which
appears to be the reverse" 1t is
apparent that Mr.. Redfield received
this illumination some time after
August, 1914. when the balance OF
trade for that month was over $16.-
OOO. 900, and he sent DR.. Frank r.
Rutter, assistant chief OF the bureau
to the New York custom house. TO
fix that little matter. The large
exports due to war orders having.
for the time being, put that subject
in the background DR.. Rutter is
again at his desk in Washington.
But it is the audacity OF cam
paign publicity work at the tax
payers expense which amazes. All
this Democratic propaganda. fur
thermore, is sent out under govern
ment frank. For some months the
commerce reports" which are in
tended to be devoted solely to mat
tiers concerning our trade, have been
carving pages of matter having
nothing to do with commerce, and
adulatory of the administration. In
plain words, the public is getting a
correspondence course at ITS own ex-
pense. full of partisan teaching de-
signed to create favorable feeling to-
ward the administration, and this
whether the public wants it or not.
Mr.. Redfeld Is running Demo-
cratic campaign publicity bureau on
forced subsidization. He will close
in 1916.