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Show oo FOREIGN FIELD A (MAT ONE American Export Business at "Food Tide" and Must Be Maintained. AMBITIOUS PROGRAM Secretary of Commerce Bu-: Bu-: reau Plans Investigation and Trade Furtherance. Detroit, Mich., Oct 22 ith the declaration that the tide of American business in the foreign field Is at its "flood" and that moans must he em-: em-: ployed to maintain it, Secretary Red-' Red-' field, addressing the board of com-j com-j merce here yesterday made a direct j appeal to business men to ask eon-i eon-i gross to appropriate more funds for the prosecution of the work of his department. The secretary explained his proposed pro-posed reform of commercial representation repre-sentation abroad, through the appointment ap-pointment of a corps of special agents and supervision of the commercial com-mercial activities of the various consuls. con-suls. Mr Redfleld declared bis department depart-ment had an ambitious program of investigation and trade fonrtberance. He said it was the Intention of the goveruraent to press It vigorously "if funds were provided." Pottery Industry at Standstill. "For example," said he, "at this present moment the inquiry into the potterv industry, which is a very important and intended to be a very helpful Investigation, Is almost at a standstill for lack of funds ' I assume you are aware of the great advance of American export trade in manufacture during the last year Time was, within the memory mem-ory of most of you. when we sold abroad chieflv the products of our fields and farms or of our mine?. We were Known as a food-exporting country and in a sense did largely feed the nations That day is gone. Our exports of crude foodstufts are but 18 per cent of the total and the major place m our export trade is tilled by the products of our manufacturers. man-ufacturers. -To sell our manufactures abroad to the extent of over fifteen" hundred millions In value in one year is no small thing, but when this continues to expand at the approximate rate or half a million dollars daily, and when In this total the largest item by fat is that of fully flnlslud manufactures manufac-tures which is not only, as I have said, the biggest item but that which is growing fastest, then the statement state-ment is very much more marked." in concluding the secretary told his hearers that, if the funds were forthcoming he proposed to reorganize reorgan-ize the bureau of corporations so that a systematic Inquiry Into all big combinations could be made This, he said would not be undertaken W anv inimical spirit, but solely for to purpose of securing information Which he believed tho government should have. |