Show l bl Iti H Uncle dude Sam Sain Now How ow the Commercial Supremacy I i 11 8 o OR seventh years It ha has itac been licen 3 f Fon current among Imong i zut lla t K idi tlona lotTe that Great Orcal nu an anI I as os a manufacturing power as In peril but bul It Il la in only re to rei togi K gi i that thal she ehe has hus been brought to re realize reIze Id Idi Idy alize Ize that the danger has tins not halted at att i t tho the door but bUl has over aver the i rh rhal y threshold The rhe British h reflective faculty I Ity al alt ty It Is ponderous and Is Inclined to wove move t tI In a circle The habit habR of ot Insular self nl appreciation has lias become ao so fixed that ti II It has withstood some tonie Sc Ie o overe ah ahJa vere commercial shocks but the thi time Ja j hRS has como come when It begins to dawn upon e 1 th the commercially lly sensitive lI John Bull Itoh at am that Is his for tor forI I I market cc Now to disturb the British foreign is market markot Is a 4 crime In titular insular eyes eyell If JC the squeamish notions of ot modern mo ern di dl diplomacy 0 did ld not conflict It would be bel l sufficient cause as a such matters appeal to to 10 the average midland hd and north coun country io try Intelligence to loose the dogs of oC war var Dr Denied that resource the tho Briton html carts cacti about for Homo potent Internal do remedy and resorts to politics as II a uni universal bl versal panacea While he li Is waiting for tor forthe tg the spell to work his keen witted willed com corn commercial mercial enemies continue to remove the old ha props from underneath his totterIng ek trade supremacy A luminous Instance In of Or Groat wit Brit sins ains commercial degeneracy Is lii to be tie beGo Go found In the recent failure of tho the equip equipment tea meat ment contractors of the new lIew nil subway to find finel English steel who would undertake the tho construction F of ot the cars for that thai system After Afler an antOo tOo exhaustive search It Il was made evident eldont 0 that there was wan no III In III the eth empire that thal could produce the steel cur curt t p demanded Although the contract ent specified with great greal particularity that tk no o foreign f material or labor lutor should be beO O It tt was finally necessary ry to modify the tho conditions and the order r for far the bill mien cars was sent to America and it was wasI I 0 promptly filled at t A firm of ot British electrical engineers rat recently secured n a J contract C which ne necessitated off the tho employment of ot about tons of oC steel An advertisement e was Willi sent to the tue leading papers Inviting bids When the tenders were ere examined r t li Il was wu found that lowe lowest t bid osme from rom a It 1 Belgian company Not Net desiring N W o place the order abroad the tho con cone contractors cj tractors advertised again expressing I J their t lr willingness to close clow clo with Ith any otI English firm that list was u willing to come corne comein in within a tr dollar a tr ton of tha t Belgian of j I I FINE FINI HINTING WORKSHOP 1 IN Nr fer There was no response to the up ap appeal peal Stilt Still unwilling to let lot the order go BO out of ot I a n final sop nop was waa held out nut to local cupidity In III the form of an offer to buy bu the steel at nl nn un excess execS of ot over the Iho Belgian hId bid As there was no rici t answer to this the order WAS unit sent across neross the channel The reasonable Inference from rom this tills apathy on the part I rt of British steel makers would be that the tile once gigantic Iron of ot the empire em la is on Its lis last logs That It has ha not entirety entirely collapsed la Is I due as much to causes without as to affairs within There are ore still a few manufacturers of ot n a 1 superior quality of steel which Is 11 used In III il cutlery and for armored shIps etc Fortunately also the United States Stales has been lIten so prosper prosperous ous ou during the past few fow years that It lies has found a 11 home market for tor or Its Us con can Increasing production of o Iron How HolY hard the stool steel trade of the United Kingdom Is being hit lilt by America mind may tuny bo b made by Ii a afew afew afew few illuminative figures In III ISSi 18 Eng land bought boucht abroad worth of ot bI It I unwrought steel sleet In lii 1901 1911 she purchased more macre than ten time that amount Last year ear she paid over for wrought ht Iron and steel Including ma machinery machinery chinery MOR IN I CHEMICAL DYE DY I Iq IN GERMANY jr AT The Tho decline of the steel making In Industry Industry Is but a 0 sample of ot the thu commer commercial cial decadence that tha has settled upon the Kingdom The rho making of ot matches once a 11 cherished monopoly In 4 5 s I RAIL r on IM trw UNtIED TATE r 1 1 I r rj j J 4 ri T Jl JL I c I nir EJ Ir S r i I England tins has been driven n out of the tho country countr by Swedish and Belgian com corn competition competition petition Only one erie firm continued to tomake tomako tomake make mako In any great quantity and that film has hae recently been absorbed by bythe bythe bythe the American match motch st and the vast organization has embarked In a I crusade against Independent makers all over the tha world work The Tho first move was to force the this price of matches down donn actually below cost Somo Some Industries have havo been lost en entirely entirely entirely and there Is no hope whatever of at their revival One of these theu Is hemp growing arid manufacturing Twenty years ears ago ogo there were Vero many mills In the north of ot England En land engaged in spinning 1 e GUN Guti AT I I RON ON GERMANY NY I Italian hemp The city of at Leeds Leed had find a It nourishing flourishing hemp trade and gave em employment employment employment to thousands of at workers To Today ToIl day Il there Is no 10 Italian hemp spun pun In lii Italy woke to the fact that thal she he could utilize her abundant hun int Water vater Waterfalls tails falls for tor power and amid this together with her cheap labor I r enables her to WOI I her tIer product up at nt prices with which Great Britain can nu no longer longcr compete stuck Much moro serious Is la o 0 loss of tho the aniline dye business That Industry I owes owea Its development d to in inventive genius and amid was formerly mu mo monopolized by that country county Now 80 per percent percent percent cent of or all nil tho dyeing material used In Inthe the tho vast textile factories lit Is furnished hed by Germany Today tour four German firms which manufacture dye dyestuffs dyestuffs stuffs have havo a It combined capital C of af JH 18 and employ chemists and engineers They also have a 1 com corn commercial mercial staff of 1368 1363 and a 11 payroll of ot over oler persons The Germans have also captured the Indigo trado trade from In India India India dia This they did by the substitution of at an artificial Indigo which Is equally satisfactory and much cheaper One Ono German firm rm alone clone has hams hll a capital capita of Invested In tho the enterprise Import of ot chemicals Is con can constantly growing She payo annually for tor coal Ur tu dyes and for other Imported Imparted dyestuffs Ocr Ger Germanys chemical industries all 11 of re to recent recent cent growth the majority of ot them cre created created at the expense ex enee of England now nay yield annually products product worth orth 2 I Another Industry that la In likely to bo ho corn com a Ii lost loet art In Iceland England J nGI nd Is color c lor printing Not many man years ago the thc bulk bulkot of ot fine line lItho printing was done In Lon Lan London Landon don Christmas curds cards juvenile cloth picture books and posters from Eng Ens England land were In high favor In America Now all these thee things can be made mado In iii Germany 30 to 40 per cent cheaper than elsewhere and even cVen England de pie depend pend upon tho the artistic and cheap prod product net urt of the Bavarian workshops for her Christmas cards Most galling of oil all perhaps Is tho the practical loss of tho the tin plate trade of ot which south Muth Wales Vales used to enjoy a mo mao monopoly Within a fortnight after the tho Mc tariff bult was waa fixed the tite United States had no less leu than tin tinplate tinplate plate pill to manufacturing establishments e The capital put Into this Industry amounted to 1 and anti men were given employ ment These a f few tew w examples of ot the tha way In tent conserva conservatism so 10 called has hall contributed to the tha overthrow of her once held heM corn com commercial mercial supremacy Her present pr sent search beuch for seine means mean to ch ck the of trade disaster which tins has over overtaken overtaken taken her Is certainly suggestive the It If no mid nol t tJust just a trifle title pathetic ST I I th RETURNED MISSIONARIES Rr nIl Have you a n friend or pt pe peIn In your former 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