Show PLENTY OF CUSTOMERS AT HOME I 1 read a few weeks ago the appeal of a commercial traveler in south america in behalf of the market for portland cement brazil he said was using many million tons of cement purchased chiefly in england belgium and germany why he wrote does not the american snatch from the german some 0 this market and show the brazilian what good stuff we can make bin the american cement manufacturer does not care for the southern market because he cannot keep up with his home orders many factories are months behind the local demand and it would be ridiculous to ship the stuff to miles when it can bo sold easily and at a good profit at home this is true of paints of drugs of locomotives and of a hundred other articles that arc absorbed by our internal commerce as fast as we can produce them the great trusts make use of foreign markets by selling abroad cheaper than they sell at home and I 1 have seen articles displayed in rio at a lower price than had been quoted not ten miles from the factory such methods compete with germans undoubtedly but the average american the man on the street feels hid patriotism at a low cub when he must praise the trusts for selling in south america at a competing price that which they sell at twice this price at home this unwillingly contributed tax drains patriotism quicker than it can be supplied the german seeks these foreign because his increasing productivity demands an outlet As a rule we do not yet need those foreign markets and no amount iff commercial endeavor will stimulate our trade into channels into which it will not instinctively now albert hale in the reader so fatiguing so young richley kadd to marry gadle stiles after all 0 o ho got scared well well and I 1 heard they had even gone so far as to rehearse for the wedding 1 yee that was the trouble they had rehearsed civo times and richley said the preparations for matrimony were such hard work he was afraid ha stand tho real thing al all catholic standard |