Show S I l J TOO JOO T MUCH TROUBLE t J Andrew Carnegie Carne e recently testified te I i before the house ways and means com corn committee cornI comI f I I that the steel manufacturer of of the United States could undersell un ers lI the Jt i I world in the foreign f markets and make makel l a good profit Under present conditions f t I with a strangle hold upon the market 1 it nt home the steel magnates apparently I do o rot vol ot th it necessary to hustle for 1 i business lJ abroad A remarkable instance J of apathy on the part of the American I f Manufacturers recently occurred About r 1 a year ye l ago Consul General Michael for forI yarded from Calcutta India details of ot otI I 5 I r an un opportunity for firms in the United 1 I I States to bid on a steel water waler tank to toI I 1 cost ost about eral concerns I t appeared to show some interest in the i matter laa r and to these the J bureau tJ rea of manufactures at Washing Washington I J f ton loll supplied further information re reI j I the contract The outcome Is IsS S related by Consul General Michael a 8 ai as i I follows i 1 i fhi r f t f c the pro I I i t t I lIu let aua J l t tecI l 1 reier n r for the additional supply of water to tu Calcutta p will not be awarded until February 4 C 1309 09 and not on that date if the t I in the council can have ha its way wa waI I TIle The principal bidders are Mrs Bird Birdt t Co of Calcutta and Clayton Claton of England whose representative Is 15 on hand In person to looI after the th firms I I I interest After alt all of ot my trouble to tor r I i place this big bis contract before American ii I engineers and contractors and manu manufacturers ml nu I I t of ot Iron and steel no Amen Ameri American can firm as a bidder is in evidence With With present facilities for shipping I Is steel s In large quantities at Rt a cheap rat ratI I I 6 O t transportation from Now Xo York and Baltimore to Calcutta there then i ft 3 seems no good reason why wh Americans should not nt have ha tried for this large lane contract not only for the money In it I hut but prestige to be gained by b such con eon contract contrad I L i I tract trad being successfully performed by byan byJ J I an American company 1 Here Is proof positive that American 1 I I enterprise has been en killed by the tariff tin Tm steel ste tee The wn s and means cor Inn mft miti i toe tee te take lake note of this fact In makin up tIle the schedules for tor the bill to 3 I bp b f tnt int at the special session of Q oft t COl et hi him hiU I I U m V |