Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-16
FOREIGN TRADE ADVANCES
UNDER DEMOCRATIC RULE
secretary OF Commerce Redheid Tells
"f Developments During Wilson
Administration.
KEFrTEs HUGHES STATEMENT
vast Trade Won Through Measures
tut ON FOot-Work of Department
Expanded Both at Home and I'm
Foreign Fields.

WASHINGTON, October l.-Th,
following statement MA. yivcn ON, In.
day by Secretary of commcrc, nc1.
field
take advantage of Your cour,cs,
10 lay before you some suggestions
! based. upon certain statements mad.
10y MIR. Charles H. Hughes in an adj.
dress at Baltimore In this speech b..
said:
During the pas, three and half
Years one would suppose shat any
American who went 10 foreign lands.
TO advance American industry ami
commerce was presumably Il bad fell
iow who had lost his rights
Every manufactures au.i business
man acquainted with "Npoy, trade
knows that ,his statement is Incorrc.,
anu thai the differences normally To he
drawn from II are wholly mistaken
II il incrc,Iih;" tia, am upright, man
lib. Mr.. Hughes could make such :,
SiatcHcn; If he were familiar with the
fncts rh" ouly excuse for i, lies in
his Ignorance.
In thc first place" til. cx,.uui,l,r..
al the department, of Commerce for
the promotion 81 our foreign trade
abroad are under tho Democratic ad
miniSiration. NOR" than Ave times
greater than they wcr. under tic l.o-
publican administration: that an on
t!rciy new force Of foreign cor,mcrci:,i
o.hccrS ',h" commercial attaches,
which did MOI .Ntst. ana was not pro
pose" under the Republican admins
' 'r"'lon, has been created ana has done
productive wotk abroad ia behalf of
our commerce that the work OF tn.
Department for enhancing our foreign
commerce has been expanded At HON.
by the creation OF eight branch oinccs
and six cooperating branches cover
ing our leading commercial ccut.r..
non" 81 which cxistcd under HcpubIi-
can rule.
NEW ORGANIZATION
rKODItt:s Bit. RESULTS
There has thus been built IN a,
home aud abroad a ncw organization
solely devoted TO tEt dcy-iopncnt of
our commerce. II has produced extra
ordinary results. Il would be easy to
MI several columns with specific ok
anpics OF the trade ,hus won. They
will b" furnished wIllinisl% on demand
10 those who asi; for them
Al the very time when Mr. Hughes
speaks u great railway, 10 cost $50
100000 IL Undertaken by Americans in
china. Large public works an Cru
quay arc hcgun by American contr.t,-
tors. Engineering works on :: great
scale taken up by Americans ia
Russia. J, would 10. easy 10 multiply
the Instances
MIR Hughes has once Or twice re-
ferr"d 20 our disapi,rovui az villa, &
known aS the Chinese SiN-powcr loan
az an evidence OF our ili-will toward
iorcIgn commerce. No Should hc bet
tor Informed. The facts arc that that
loan was disapprovcd. because tho con-
tract on which i; WAS To be based con
tanned clauses Inconsistent; With TIA.
financial Independence OF China
Perhaps it viii seem most strange
al All that Mr hughes should have
nude tho statement 20 which | refer
at thc very time when. by Democratic
legislation tn. extension of the Amcrl-
can hanks all over the world has begun.
There vas almost nothing OF the kind
four year, ago. pyr foreign compc,i-
tors had their financial weapons all
round the earth. and wc had little o.
nothia-y ~ the sort The law enacted
under Republican ruic did not pcrmi,
them. The Democrats changed that
law o promote them. ana NOW they cX-
Is; - numerous places. growing and 10
grow.
"If ! may add Il personal word in
r.spons. 10 Nil. Hughes IL would l..
this, that IL is strange 10 me. who have
spent much 81 every day these three
years past IN pushing forward our
forei;sm trade ana in promoting the cs-
tnpiishmcnt OF American enterprises