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Show f BOTESTS AGAINST I DISTORTED FACTS iJareless Statements Block Ik Progress, Says Secretary Redfield. (PmCOHMBlS, Ohio, April 21. Half truths, exasperations and misshapen ;.Bfoitenient5. which ho said stalk over JRhc land affectinc the progress of jKconoiiMi conditions, worn denounced jilBcro today bv HccrcAary of the Depart-yjBicnt Depart-yjBicnt of domnierec Hod field in a speech JPRfcfor the f'cluiiibns Chamber of Coni- jSicrco. The secretary appealed -for as-TjjKislniice as-TjjKislniice in the work to prevent, thereon-''KKnucd thereon-''KKnucd use ol "mental gymnastic?" on wKtio part of those who control - public flKrUiciflm, and predicted that if the jjBffuth was restored to jjonoral umc the fommerce of the country would soon Jmind its pathway free for further and rflBargcr progress. Secretary Redfield 3 K The "aniro f recent current K russion in finnncial and political IBcirclPii, lead? ine. to speak very i Vtplainlv to you alonp lines of Kthouht with' which wc arc all fa-v fa-v Bfrniliar. and in which something re- Bp mains to be said. 1Kv a time of readjustment to now 3HRecononii' conditions such as is now $Hfgoing on in every commercial coun-fffRitry coun-fffRitry the wide world over. it. would VlMFseem to me desirable that wide in-TflHsformation, in-TflHsformation, carelessness of statu-jKiment, statu-jKiment, and a (Vsire to give all ele-jBRli.nts ele-jBRli.nts their normal weight and no jKsnioi or no less should bp the con .ijKtrolliiig factors. iB We hear, for example of the im-ttWPortatious im-ttWPortatious of iron and steel on fijBrboth our coasts, and men who would II like, perchance, to save the mental yi gjabor involved in the test of com-fm com-fm petition, evince their absence of Ml industrial courage bv being pcssi-wA pcssi-wA cnnslic in the press concerning these If? I importations. Thev will tell you -a fthat 47,000,000 pounds of iron ami a lfiteel of various kinds have been 'S imported into the United States in is ftthe eight months ending with Fob-3 Fob-3 fnmry. This sounds portentous, but "M ?the Ileaid part of it is that tliis is M ffabout 23,000 net tons, or at tho ifl ffrato for the entire period of less Jm rtihau half a day's work for the M United States Stool corporation. |