OCR Text |
Show "T 1 I OUR G00DS "Zsn. 4 ..WELCOME., i Amano. "If the business done by all manufacturers manu-facturers In the I'nlted Stales with their customers In South America baa Increased In the last eight years aa ours bat It la a manor of about one nor decade when American-made roods will bare displaced all others In that continent," tald a maker of vehicles vehi-cles In New York, after be hsd read a cabled order from a Booth American cnatomer for enounh carriages to keep bit factory running night and day for tlx weeks to come. "Tbe newspapers have aald much for a score of months or to about the Increase In-crease of American export! to Europe; they have Inld wonderful true stories of how we arc competing with England In English markeia, with France In French markets, with Germany In Oer-mnn Oer-mnn markets, but bardly a word haa been tald until very recently nbout our advance In the mnrkela of South America Amer-ica and our victorious competition there wllh England, France and dor-many. dor-many. "It Is a fnrt that ploughs are being ahlpped hy the trnlnload from Mollne, III., to Routh America, and that a steamship company whose vessels ply between 1-omlon and Uuenot Ayres has contracted for every Inch of lit tpace which will be available for the trana-portatlon trana-portatlon of American heavy machinery machin-ery for a year to come. "A eertliln Importing Arm In South America hat a standing order wltb a I'nlted Ktiitos firm for a certain number num-ber of thousanda of shovels to he shipped every month, yet tne demand la so great that a special order for 11.-000 11.-000 more, to be shipped at the earliest moment possible, was received by cable few days sro. These orders formerly, former-ly, and not so many years ago, went to England. France and Oermany. "1 have iMH ti Informed by our agents In South America, who handle many and various lines of goods, that this trade has been trnnsforreil from England, Eng-land, France anil Uermany to the United Unit-ed Htatea because of the superior excellence excel-lence of American goods, the quickness with which they can bo, delivered and their comparative cheapness. "Tho sale of American proiltictl In Routh America depends upon price,' Just aa It dots In KiiKlnml. France, tier-many tier-many and every other country where tho use of American goods la Increasing, Increas-ing, and the feeling nK.ilnat thn United Mates whloh Is known to exist In certain cer-tain Iaitln-Amerlcun countries disappears disap-pears when It becomes a matter of dollars. dol-lars. When an article Is desired It Is bnur.ht where It can be had for the least money, no matter where It was made. "Moreover, tbe fact that It la of American manufnctiiro glvea It a reputation repu-tation for excellence which similar articles ar-ticles made In other cotintrlea do not have." |