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Show NEW TARIFF LAW PROVESILPFWL Scretary Redf ield Praises Manufacturers Man-ufacturers for Ready Adjustment Ad-justment to Conditions. NO WAVE OF DISASTER Pitiful Farables of Business Depression a Failure America Least Troubled. New Haven, Conn.. Jan. L'4. An affirmative view of business was the keynote of a speech Secretary ot Commerce Redfield made here today before the Chamber ot Commerce He praised American manufacturers for their ready adjustment to new condi tions and declared that the wave ol foreign manufactures, which it was predicted would flood American mar-kefs mar-kefs with the passage of the new tar iff, had not materialized. "Aye, but you say, look at the de pression! Well, look at It!' said Mr Redi'ield. "Look at it sanely, without with-out passion and without prejudice. What do you see? But before you answer an-swer let me ask a second question-Where question-Where are you looking? Get the lion zon big enough, else your picture will be put partial and may mislead. Where, then, is trade depression found? In India, in Argentine, in Bra zil, in Germany, in England. Where is it least 0 In America. Where is the rising tide from suoh depression as exists first and most' Here In America Ieave aside the pitiful parables of the prophets of evil who for political purposes preach national pain. Ixok calmly at the truth: Am erica suffers from no disaster She is better off when the worst is said, than her sister nations "It was perfectly proper that bii6i ness men whose output was affected more or les- hv the new tariff should give thoughtful heed how to readjust I themselves to it They would have been foolish had they done otherwise Frankly, the men who dreaded laritt i changes mot have said, and are say Ing thai readjustments are over and j the new law Is helpful. " ; Mr. Redfield spoke at length on ! new methods adopted by the depart j ment to bring business men in closer touch with both domestic and foreign trade opportunities. |