Show AMERICAN EXPORTS Of SHOES It is of no use for Republican organs to deny the fact that American manufacturers man-ufacturers are competing with English firms in classes of goods of which the latter have made specialties anc which because of cheap labor sometimes some-times miscalled pauper labor it was supposed needed in this country to be protected by a high tariff Instead of the United Stales being flooded with those cheap goods of foreign fabrication under the new i tariff law America is sending her I manufactures abroad and underselling I European made goods in British trade I con tres The London Daily News in speaking of the labor troubles in the shoe trade in a recent issue had this to say which is a sufficient answer to statements in attempted denial of American exports of shoes to England The employers cannot ignore one of the most disquieting features of the situation It is the now rapidly increasing in-creasing growth of American competition competi-tion in even the home market This is shown by the fact that on a single day in the week before the holidays three tons of American boots and shoes which had been landed at Liverpool from New York were delivered to Leicester Lei-cester dealers Nor can this excite much surprise when it is realized that the Leicester dealer can now have these goods delivered free at his own door cheaper than he can buy them from the Leicester manufacturer In the case of ladies glace kid boots for example the difference in favor of the I American maker is as much as eight pence per pair and at that price an order has actually been delivered within with-in the last few days |