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Show SAYS PROTECTIVE TIFF IT NEEDED i Attack Upon the System Made by Manufacturer in the House of Representatives. MONDELL MAKES A SPEECH Wyoming- Member Voices Opposition Opposi-tion to the Democratic Wool Measure. WASHINGTON-. June 12. An attack upon the protoctlve tariff system by an American manufacturer who claims to have studied labor and manufacturing conditions In many countries, held the attention of the house of representatives for two hours today. Representative William C. Kedficld of Brooklyn, a new Democratic member, a manufacturer of machinery and long connected con-nected with export trade, said that American manufacturers are abandoning the protective principle as unnecessary, ns they develop more scientific mamigo-ment mamigo-ment of their own plants. "The protective tariff simply has enabled en-abled the American 'manufacturer to sell at such high prices that they have not studied their own conditions closelv," said Mr. Redfleld. "They have relied on government gov-ernment support, rather than upon business busi-ness niiinagement. Its effect has been to stimulate the development of plants unlil they are now so large that products must be sold abroad. In this condition, the manufacturers no longer want to pay the high prices necessary for ma- li'.i'lnl HT11..I- -i Ti,..r,i..i i.'rw io..irr Mr.- Ucdfleld declared that Instead of foreign labor being oheaner. American labor Is really the cheapest in the world; that no labor produced us much output, In proportion to tho wages It received, as American. i Mr. Redfleld attacked .tho Republican principles of. a. "tariff, enual to the differences dif-ferences In cost at home and abroad." saying It was Impossible! lo determine this difference. He said the American tariff board "is worthless unless empowered empow-ered to call for the cost sheets of iho factories engaged In the lino of manufacture" manu-facture" It Is studying," "adding that often the American cost of production Is lower than . that abroad. Republican opposition to the Demo-vrailc Demo-vrailc wool tariff revision bill was voiced today In the house by Representative Mondell of Wyoming, who resumed the debnto on the measure. Mr Mondell said the reduction of tho raw wool tariff actually amounted to the abolishment of three-fourths of tho protection now given the sheen lalsenf of the country. "As the Democrats have virtually declared de-clared for free wool." he said, "this bill Is to all Intents and purposes, a freo wool bill, so iar as the shoes) raising business of America Is concormid." Mr. Mondell sakl William Jennings Bryan had actually controlled the recent re-cent Democratic caucus. Ills Influence forced It to the acknowledgment, lie said, that the 20 per cent duty left on raw-wool raw-wool did not represent true Democratic doctrine of tariff revision. |