The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05

countries, his address was closely con-
fined to comparison of the several pro-
cesses in vogue and a comprehensive ex-
position of the deductions he had made,
touching on the effect of those foreign
competitors on the future of American
manufacturing industries.
1t was apparent to all who heard him
that he had been critical observer. He
is a statistician from an inherent love of
his hearers yesterday afternoon was new,
entertaining and instructive.
After few Introductory words in a
happy vein he said:
II went down to Manchester and found
there $4,000 cotton manufacturers and
workers protesting by petition to Parha-
ment against the per cent duty on cotton
II dropped into the mandatory of Cox
Brothers in Dundee, where they employ
1000 operators under the best sanitary con-
ditions. I was told by one of the members
of the firm that they would have to move
some of their machinery to India; that it
was no use-they could not compete with
the cheap labor of that country. | mad not
been in Calcutta fifteen days before I saw
samples of their manufactured goods that
proved ccnclusively that no further ex-
pertinent was necessary. They can manu-
facture goods equal to that produced by
the manufacturers of Dundee. Therefore
it is impossible for the English manufac-
turers to compete.
Il have travelled over 5000 miles of rail-
way in India, and they are equal to many
of the lines in this country. The price Of
railroad labor there is Scents day. 1t is the
same throughout the entire scale. The best
bank clerks and expert bookkeepers get
$17 so month; expert accountants, $25 to
$125 month, for which labor we pay $3.50
and G200 q month. of no oh ,,ic tc
cents day; master mechanics, So rs a
month. The highest skilled labor receives
only 81 so month. 1t is the same in
Japan.
when England shut down the minis in
London with the result of demonetizing
silver in the Orient she did a greater ser
vice for the silver men of the United States
than all the speeches and press work that
has been carried on up to this day. But to
return to the manufacturing question
what is true of the cotton manufacture is
also true of the metal-workers. In Japan
watches are made by workmen who get
from to cents day. / bought a watch
or $50 in New York City. In metals we
all know they have excelled for the last
hundreds of years.
81 went into the match factories there.
and let me tell you that they have certainly
closed Germany out of the Oriental mar
kelS. Ii Is LDe same WIFI DruSQeS. here
is brush exhibiting finely made tooth
brushl that could not be bought in New
York for less than 80 cents a dozen, and
the Japanese turn them out for % cents
I'll tell you, gentlemen, it is a great and
momentous question, and it devolves on
US to solve it. And let me say that when
these Japanese get their matches, their
metal works and their brushes, and, in
fact, all other articles of skilled manufac-
ture in this country 1 will thank my stars
that / have no interest in the Diamond
Match Company and other manufacturers
that will have to stand against that COM
petition.
"In India and Japan the manufacturing
enterprises are increasing rapidly. In ten
years more India will not be importing a
single article of manufacture from Eng
land, and in the years to come she will not
only be supplying her own wants, but will
be knocking at the doors of the great mar
kets of the world. 1t may be deduced from
this prophecy that when England loses
her vast export trade with the countries
in manufacture she will cease to be the
Eat banker and creditor of the world;