Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-01-14

American manufactures are in demand, and
| for one-as a traveller-with full acquain-
tance with the European, Indian and Aus
| tralian buyers, | think that agencies of Amer
| ican manufactures should be established in
London, and Sydney, New South Wales.
Seven years ago Kidderminister sent twenty
salesmen to this country in the interest OF her
well-known carpets. Now not one is sent.
ssCan that statement be substantialS Can
a single town like Kdderminster, once with
twenty travellers in the United States, have
now lost all representation among usT
THAT is the case" answered Mr. Hollis
The statement applies generally not only to
Kidderminster but to Sheffield. Leeds. Bir-
mingham, Halifax and Manchester In Cali
fornia recently met business man OF Bal
! larat, Australia. just returned from Europe.
| He expressed his surprise that English manu-
facturers still obstnately cling to the old
patterns and STYLES of century ago. giving
an open field for the inventions of the nlted
States. Nv friend spoke particularly of
agricultural implements, and said that there
were none iu use in Australia except of
American make, and that they were far prefer
able to those of English manufacture CEN
fury behind the age. Here has been the
great cause of this change" continued Mr..
Hollis, English manufacturers will cling to
n design which their great-grandfathers may
have considered the best. and obstinately re-
fuse To meet more advanced requirement. In
the United States the contrary is true; the
buyer has made known his wants, and they
are met Thus, England's great trade has
been Topped off or is continually declining
through the superior adaptability OF goods
coming from the American markets. Ameri-
can manufacturers will make any article that
Al. while the English
stick to their old samples"
give some instance regarding this falling
Off of English trade. How has it been with
reference to some of the positive necessaries
of life?"
"Instance the trade of Northampton with
the United States in shoes" replied Mr.. Hol-
lis. For wears il has been mar' thousands of
pounds the other way. The English market
is supplied with American leather for the
manufacture of shoes, hrt even with this the
American shoes are preferred in the English
market and are looked upon as really of su-
perior workmanship. My wife anxiously looks
for a supply of American boots upon my re-
turn for her own use. American Jewelry, as
to design, has palpable supremacy over that
of European manufacture. The steady de-
mand for Geneva watches has subsidized and
those of American makes are considered of
Northwestern Railway are supplied with
American watches. The officers of our army
in India, | think. would prefer the American
rife if they were acquainted with il; and
in sporting shot-guns one American firm is
fast on the heels Of English makers of high
rcpute. American revolvers are esteemed in
England as wonderfully cheap and well made
in the United States. In this way could
take up nearly every branch of trade. All
will tend TO show a decline in English manu-
factures and beginning of a new era for
American manufacturers in the trade of Eu-
rope and the Australian colonies
This example is but one of thousands of
the confessions being made by foreigners
that the American system of protecting
and encouraging American manufactures
has built up our industries until they are
taking precedence of the older nations
both at home and abroad. Why then
should Gov. Garcelon denounce a protect
i've tariff as great evil
In 1857, when Governor Garcelon was
member of the House he was an earnest
defender, in that body, of protective
tariff. His changing to an opposer at this
time, when the proofs of the wisdom Of the
policy are apparent not only in the growth
and prosperity of Lewiston and Auburn,
but in the Acknowledgements and measures
of its hitherto most strenuous enemies, in
dicate that his late political associations
have warped and corrupted his judgment
aud led him to oppose now, when Governor
of the State, the sound principles which
as an humble member of the House he ad-
vocated twenty-five years ago.