Show PROGRESS OF j Will Utah's senators support the president and vote for will they follow the lead of the official organ in and vote against We don't and local Republicans don't seem to We a laugh has often been raised by the story of the professor of theology who said to his Biblical text is almost certainly we must not give it up-without a hard Yet do we not see the same if such it can be exemplified in men will we are going to be but we'll fight to the last Just now in for against reciprocity is declared by all to absolutely Even those who are waging it are conscious that defeat awaits But are they willing to the dilatory proceedings by a to leave one speech undelivered hostile motion Not at These hard-headed and intensely practical say they are going to hold congress in session far into the summer heats and spin out every thread verbose debating to its thinnest to be overwhelmed in the The theological professor was a miracle of wisdom compared with The speech of Representative Redfield of Brooklyn in the house on Monday was a really effective assault upon the high-protection It derives unusual weight from the circumstance that Redfield is himself a manufacturer of machinery on a large besides knowing the situation here and abroad his experience in the export in own line of has studied foreign conditions the- course of extensive Upon the question of difference of cost of he boldly declared that it is impossible to determine such and that the results obtained by the tariff board will be worthless for this purpose unless the board is empowered to call for the cost of the factories engaged in the line of manufacture it He what has been declared before by economists and practical per unit of American labor is the cheapest in the while this is of course not true in all there can be no doubt of its truth in many important In a recent interview Redfield had made an extremely interesting statement on this In visiting he had been struck by the fact American locomotives were sold in that in competition with big Japanese locomotive works at which the got only one-fifth of the wages that are paid in the Upon investigation his conclusion was that the actual labor cost in the Japanese locomotive works was three times that in the in spite of the low |