New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-09
UNITED STATES EXPORT TRADE.
PoLYGLoT HANDBOOK TELLING THE "oNi'o
WHAT AMERICANS HAVE TO SELL

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WHAT AMERICANS HAVE TO SELL
aThe United states Export Almanac .o"'p,o
benslyc Presentation of American Products Industries
-, ,.,ooo IN English French, spanish and Ger
man &c a handsome quarto volume OF Ala pages, Just
issued by the United States Export Almanac r"on r
ing Company of this city, The Hon. Oari Sc"u'L mas
provded IL with an introduction, IN winch he s'a'cs
its purposes and points ont It's signiheahce 10 inc III
dn,,ai interests OF the United States 1t is designed
-. 80 tho productive interests OF the United
&C.,, the same service which Is being rendered TO tho
,as,r,os of Germany Austria and Italy by the
Fxnort Directories published and distributed with the
aid of the respective Governments OF those countries
I,s publicatIon was undertaken al their own FISK Dy
an association of pubcs pirted citizens to meet on
their own ground similar enterprises set on foot
abroad"
tn what extent a publication like this may be In
ornamental in promoting the export commerce of our
country it would be difficult to say, but there can Do
no doubt that 1t makes its appearance at time wheh
the public mind is much taken up with Thoughts OF an
extension Of commercial relations with the people OF
Central and South America. and that II furnishes
great deal of information to those who wish TO stuuS
what must be the basis OF those relations The editors
have called number of experts we'll known through
out the country TO their aid, and have presenter
statistics and information concerning the i'aoi"s
American industries in an effective manner. Henry
Willard writes on Railroads" the lion AIohIo boA'
late Assistant Secretary Of the Interior, on Ma
chinerys Richard p. Rockwell, Editor of The In
gineering and Mining Journal on Mines Mining anu
Mnerass J. r. Dodge. statscian OF the United States
Denartment OF Agriculture, on Rural Production
II f. Krehbiel on Musical Instruments T. "a
seely of the United States Patent once OH o0io"'
fife Ipstruments"; Edward Atkinson. on helaioh
of'Wages Prices etc.; Charles Heber ClarK' El''or
OF The Textile Record OF America" on ieA'Hes III
the United States. $ Bergman. on Electricity ana
it's Applicationss: IL. @. Adam. on Petroleum ana
. nr,cs and Chemicals; Paul Loeser, Editor OF the
New-York stats eitung,' on The Newspaper IN
dustry while the editors discuss Our Export Iraoe'
Lumber and Furniture Paper and frih"ns
Presses and Printers Supplies"
The prevaling tone OF Mr.. Schurzs Introduction eau
h. ,uacd in the following defence of American manu-
factures against the prejudice that they are cheap
rather than excellent; ~,
Perhaps in no country in the world IS the poNcy
of competition by producing and offering cheap anu
inferior article pretending to be what II Is not hoo
rarely followed Competing producers rather s'ilVe
IN outstrp one another by setting their lhVen,No
genius to work I'm order 10 discover more ehec'lNo
and less costly methods Of production, ana by tns
mans TO become able TO offer equally or more Vdlu-
able goods at lower prices. Nowhere Is the enPioS
mont of ingenious machinery more general thah mere
and nowhere do machne-made goods III hlsher "o-
gree possess all those virtues Which hanuauc so'u
were supposed to possess and in very many instances
.be machine-made article is superior TO that maze ny
hand in point Of regularity and durability IL may
without exaggeraton be said that quite generally inc
products Of American mechanical Industry eAoot o3
decided superiority of workmanship lug cheap IS
wants that which he buys of course 10 De as ceaP -
uossibe but all things he wants u 10 oe 49,
The American producer is In this respect thiOsNoi1
goyeined lv the requirements of his customer, anu
those requirements have Impressed theseiaoI ui}ed
the character of industrial production ID the tnce"
states We hazard nothing in asserting thal the en
perenoe Of those who have used INNS man 10 ont
IN fho United states will quite generally pear ls o
N
NOT invalIdate the rule That articles prOuuceu III
ntber countries are frequently offered at lower pres
than similar articles produced IN the om'e3 e eS
Animation be found that the difference IN prices III
most cases more apparent than real mat me acTs
nrodced in the United States are usually suPcioI III
Torkmansbjp and value that this supefOrIy iuode
than makes up the difference in price anu tSs
inns the products of the higher inventive genus ,o
better mechanical appliances, and the greater ineUna .
eal skill and working energy viii I'D the emu TURN o
M be the cheapest that is offered