Show I t Alluring But Bat Incomplete I S REDFIELD'S picture of the sturdy i independence American industries will develop r low tariff fin and free freo trade i is mos most alluring It tt touches es our hearts at nt vulnerable point No 10 I cit citizen cn of ot his country's Deputation for energy I and business acumen can cnn 1 resist a glow of pleasure at atI atthe atthe I the thought tho the odds against us we have havo reared a i commercial If abrio that is a n model for all nil the world to copy Patr Patriotism bids us agree with r Mr J Wilsons Wilson's Secretary of or Commerce and tempts us usI I to urge that he J hasten the work of removing whatever whatever what what- ever o artificial Jeg legislative props sustain our industrial I I system but common suggests that we stop J I look and listen It is custom of the e exponents of lower tariffs tariff i to charge that the protective system has destroyed t Ameri American ll initiative that because e our industries ies have I 1 1 4 1 P fYn fn v v v. v i u. u W IJ-W t 0 petition they havo grown less sturdy and more dependent det doI de do- I t pendent upon governmental assistance A careful r reader of Democratic newspapers and of the speeches of that party's orators will often see ce that statement J made but he may look long and earnestly without 4 1 finding any proof offered In the tho one breath they t denounce the protective e system as producing only I I f an nu exotic erotic prosperity and in the other admit ourI our ourI I active participation in the markets of e every even civilized I country successfully competing for business Secretary Redfield's discussion of The Tariff t on Its Human Himan Side is interesting interesting- merely because I it comes from one of the tho Presidents President's official adI ad ad- risers It differs in no wise from irom rom the arguments that I ba have e been advanced by the tho most clever of or the Democracy's Dc- Dc defenders for many years It paints in int t t p attractive colors the revivified re United States where every toll toiler r shall compete with every other for the right to laBor and whore horo every e industry shaH stand standon on an its own foundation without aid or assistance If Mr had in mind only the American situation situa situa- Lion tion he find mall many to agree with him unfortunately tun te however to reach this blissful condition there must be he a readjustment of our commercial structure t When foreign n goods manufactured at a a. standard of wages less Jess than half that which prevails pro in the United S States Slates ates ent enter l' l without hindrance to test the mettle of home industries it is not the manufacturer alone who suf suffers c His Ills and the tradesmen they support suffer with him There is another side I of picture I Ro- Ro |