Show AMERICANS A TO THE TIlE FOREFRONT The Bureau of Statistics announces that the thc present year shows 1 that hat U worth of American manufactured goods have been exported l This is evidence idell of most of-most most remarkable pi ogress pt The figures g given gen en have never been equaled except once and that lint was in ill the thc phenomenal y year al' al of 1900 1000 The hc goods g ma made in ill this country were cre sent into cent centers rs of industry where thc they were so d sO d in competition compe with wilt their home ma made e goods In other words the American manufacturer l' l has met the lie European business man on the hatters hatter's own ground a and ld won wona a great commercial victory Then too the United States has haR become of time the great granary of th the worl world All Europe is buying our ur breadstuffs and the thc trade in ill this line is iH constantly increasing We Ye make better bet bet- ter tei- goods than the tile European manufacturer we wem m make l e them cheaper and we pay better wages than he does This Thi co combination when backed backe by American Ameri Amen can brains is bound to win an and it is not strange that our goods are driving out the thc inferior products of the factories in the crumbling crumbling- monarchies of the theOl theOld theOld Ol Old World The year will close with the Amer American can manufacturer setting the pace in Europe Our exports exports ex ex- ports show a phenomenal increase the country is prosperous and Americans are not in a humor to experiment with legislation which may maj block the wheels of tra trade e They are well Oiled now and we cant can't afford to do any tinkering with them |