The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-09
United States Valuation Would Correct Tariff Evils.
 Judge Fries.
Need for Change in Appraisals Shown by Judge of Gus
 toms Appeals Court.

Americas markets being the best, It's prices the highest and it's money at par, this country has become the goal of all regenerating trade," Judge Marion De vries, of the United States Court of Customs Appeals. says in a statement just issued in favor of the new Fordney Tariff Bill.
 National self preservation, in that status. primarily demands. plenary defense of our markets against being made the dumping grounds of the worlds products of cheap labor and production. augmented by extreme currency depreciation.
 "One needs to travel but little to be taught the distress and dire needs of our manufacturers, producers and 1aborers by the vacant shops, the smokeless stackS, and hopeless faces of our worknen, where before were the hum of activity and the smile of ,contentment.
 , '"Why? We turn to the morning paper. Every day is printed there the reason why We read in one column, for example, that cut of 20 per cent has been made in agricultural imple- ments, in another that four and one half million of our laborerS are out of employment, while in another column you read an official report to the De- partment of Commerce that the great Krupp plants of Germany, the pre-war output of and workmen in which con- tributed more to the world calaES4ey and human suffering than any like institution in history, now employees 5000 men as against s1,oOo men prior to the war; that they are con- tented and reasonably paid; that the daily output of agricultural and var jed products of that institution are greater than in history.
 Others Erect Barriers
 ssUpon every hand we find in our land that to-day our goods are being driven from our markets, our factor les closed, our farms impoverished and our laborers thrown into idleness by the cheap productions of foreign countries which are hourly being dumped into this country. Three years ago the war closed. Almost every great commercial nation of the world save the United States has put up the tariff barriers against this deluge of cheap foreign goods. Octo- Der 1st free trade England raised her duties 33B per cent on six thousand articles. Previously she provided spe- cial duty against German goods of 50 per cent, and a depreciated curren- cy provision of 75 per cent.
 'Italy long since enacted a currency Idepreciation measure of 672s per cent. France had put up her barriers more i AO@Ao since followed these examples. We alone are the tardy nation.
 "The question now whether the inn port duties levied by the United States shall be calculated upon foreign or American valuation basis is perhaps lths most important import tariff issue seriously considered by the Congress since 1883.
 '"The existing foreign valuation sys- tenn Is without doubt the weakest lever enacted. Thereunder, ordinarily to introduce foreign merchandise into the commerce of the United States, in competition with American produc- tions, no single oath by the foreigner is required as to their value, or Is otherwise made necessary.
 Indeed, no oath whatsoever Is re- Iouired save upon the declaration &C., companying entry at the custom house, which in the presently adopted form. is without force or effect. IT