The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-29
.REDFIELD WALLOPS
 CALAMITY HOWL FRS
Defends Wilson Administration in Vigorous Speech at
 Indianapolis

Indianapolis April 29--Denuncia- ton of ..caIanaity howlers'' and a wig orous defense of the policies of Pres ident wilson's administration were the features of a speech here yester- day by Secretary Redfield of the De partrnent of Commerce before meeting of representatives of lnd1- ana misunderstanding interests. The Secretary defended the tariff, laud- ed the Federal Reserve Act, declar- ed that the Clayton Antitrust law and the Federal Trade Con1rnlssloh act have made plainer the way or the business man, and asserted that in the condition of the country today ssthere is no happiness for those who would do evil to the Adrninistrat1on.
 The Secretary quoted several news paper articles to show that the coun- try was on the way to prosperity and paid caustic respects to purveyors of pessinnis1n-
 saThose preachers of poverty and personal purposes z he said, will in due time 20 to their own places un- wept, urhonored and unsung follow ed by the deserved curses of the de- ceived, falling into the limbo of the calamity howler where long ago the undertaken preceded them. These are they who in secret places, speak evil of those who haoye brought the l lcommerciaI shock in its history and landed her safe and strong upon the peaceful shores of prosperity and 1n-a fIuehce.',
 Three times. the Secretary said, the country had evinced it's faith in the Democratic party by returning ak Democratic House of Representatives. The foes of Democracy, he said, could find small comfort in the re- duced majority of the Democrats in the next Congress
 ssOur party has kept its faith," he continued. Tt has not been given orders by the people to revise the tariff downward only to answer by revising it upward. One thing at least no one dares say about the tar if law, namely, that 1t was pre- pared by anybody in his own inter l est. Never was there a measure of, the kind more free from personal taint, more purely intended for pub tlic as distinguished from private purposes.'' The Secretary declared
 that the tariff was not factor in | .tdepressing business conditions" and Ethat under the Underwood bill i've
 have gained something of industrial self respect-'
 The Federal Reserve law, he said, I has released into the channels of I trade vast sums formerly unneces-
 sari1y held back as reserves, and has taken away the basis of fear that Il produces panic.
 Look and see.' he continued. ''how
 many of; our partisan oponents ven- ture to rise in public and denounce the Federal Reserve law It is ad- | nnitted on all hands, if not in words,
 at least in silence, by our adversa- | ries that this thing has been well done. On it with confidence rest the operations of some of the very men
 who cry 1oudest in criticism of our policies.
 Aye, but business legislation. We'll, Legislation boldly, for concerning it there is naught we have to fear. We have made plainer the way of the lghonest business man; our opponents themselves being witnesses. the Clay ton law and the Federal Trade Com mission law are good, They put no obstacle in the way of any honorable
 man. They make his road more 1 plain. They give him a forum in
 him a point on which with more con-
 fidence he may lean.
 Let it be that criticism shall come" he concluded. we shall be 1 the better for it; but let it be that
 the criticism shall be fair and truth full and candid. If it is not so, the criticism will fall of it's own folly. If it is so the criticism will do us l good. And when we shall approach in the coming year the decistcn for | the future, let it be approached not l with n scow1 or whine. not with the
 partial statement of half truths, out let the facts be known in all their Iroundness to the American people
 and then in Gods name, let the best
 man w4n.''