The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-09-28

as industrial powers than might have been
expected from them, even if they had been |
more literally endowned by nature, and |
geographically within easier reach of the |
Champ dc Mars. But after these considera-
tions have been duly discounted, the collec-
tive exhibits of iron and steel present edu
catonal facilities and scientific memorabilia |
quite as notable and probably, on the whole, |
much more complete, than any antecedent |
Exhibition. England and America have |
had numerous opportunities, of which they
have taken full advantage, of showing to the |
world their capabilities and resources in
this sphere of industrial effort; and hereto
fore the race has been so far to the switt,that
the right of England to preeminence has
hardly been challenged. 1t is fact much
too notorious to be gainsaid that the pride of
place enjoyed by Great Britain has made
her disregard the threats of foreign competi-
tion, and it is perhaps, due more to their in-
sular prejudice and contempt of danger, than
to aught else, that English firms have come
so far short oftheir best efforts in the present
Exhibition. But the extent and character
of foreign competition have been brought
very near and made uncomfortably apparent
to the English industrias, who have never
until now ceased to deliverin their manifest
destiny as "the workshop of the world" and
must, unless they are as far from wisdom as
an ostrich, persuade them that their energies
must more than ever be taxed to breast the
rising tide of foreign competition.
A more complete or more elaborate series
of iron and steel was probably never brought
together than that contributed by France to
her own Exposition of 1878. This may, in
deed, be regarded as the very first opportu-
| nifty France has enjoyed of showing to the
rest Of the world her relative position in the
race of industrial preiermcut. Neither in
her own exhibitions of 1855 and 1867 nor
in the English Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862
did she come largely to the front in matters
| metallurgcal and the enormous drain made
upon the resources by the war left her in the
background at the Exhibitions of Vienna
and Philadelphia. But to-day she proves to
| the rest of the world that,in spite Of the gen.
| eral demoralzltion and disturbance OF IN
| dustry caused by the misiOrtunes that cumi-
mated in Sedan, and notwithstanding the
consequent loss Of eleven of her principal
| iron works in Alasace and Lorraine, repre-
senting the transference to the Zollverien of
| three iOurths of the iron production of the
| old French department Of the Moselle, she
has in this, as in all other indications of
material progress, developed amazing recu
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