The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30
WILSON HOSTILE
 TO BUSINESS II! ITS TO LAUGH
High Chinese Favor, N. Y. Custom House Records
 and Other Deeds.

New. York, Oct. 30.-The charge made by Charles E. Hughes that the Wilson Administration is hostile to business, is effectively answered by William C.. Redfeld, Secretary of Commerce, in letter to Henry T. Hunt, ex-Mayor of Cincinnati and now Secretary of the Wilson Busi- ness Mems National League.
 By indirection," says MT. Red field, MT. Hughes has tried to make it appear that the Wilson Admins tration is hostile to business because it disapproved the Six Power Loan to China He knows or ought to know the sole reason for fobjecting to that loan was that the terms of the contract were such as did out rage to the Chinese Government and such as no one friendly. to that gov ernment could favor. AS a<result the Chinese government is so friendly to- ward us that large railway con- struction contract has recently been placed in this country with their ap- proval, and one of our own depart ment attaches secured an order for the entire equipment of two Chinese government cotton mills, which is now being executed in New England.
 Let the doubter go to the office of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in the Customhouse in New York. In a single month 2,894 men have visited it. Many of them are foreign buyers, to whom for the first time this facility is open, and one group of whom alone IHaced orders agregating ten millions in value. Now let the doubter go in. Among other things he will see a wonderful collection of foreign hard ware, the prt uct of our competitors which has bee,l gathered by actual purchase all over the world and brought there to show American hardware manufacturers and export CTS the kind of goods against which they must compete and the prices which they have to meet.
 -Four years ago there was a pref erential duty in Spain against Ameri.
 Can coal. A short time since it wa: removed and thousands of tons o1 coal have been sold by us to Spain since then. What caused its re- moval? A statement as to the facts made by our commercial attache ir company with our ambassador to the Spanish government.
 Let the doubter step down tC Perth Amboy. There he will see the only thing of it's kind in America-a tin smelter. It Is quite new. How did 1t come to be there? Because an. other commercial attache in Bolivia so worked with an American ,manu. facturer both here and there that 2
 business new to America has beer brought here and is running we'll Lei the doubter ask the lumber mer- chants of the Northwest of the gov. ernment is cooperating with them Or stop in St. Louis and inquire o1 the fur trade there. Or let us, if he pleases, give him a\list of the busit ness houses in many states who have taken actual orders in hand through our work, and let him write or talk with them.
 Here is a great and new organ. ization work at home and abroad created by the Democratic Admins tration out of relatively small begin
 nings into the most efficient organ ization of it's kind in the world
 showing it's worth by deeds, so tha lin a dozen parts of our country te day orders are. being filled which em ploy American workmen and give profits to American capital whicf were obtained through the efforts O. the administration. We are ready tt put into the hands of an inquirer specific cases-many of them-of ac tua1 new business obtained through our work"