The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
ENGLISH FACTORIES BUSY.
A Denver Man Says They Are Taking
Advantage of Tariff Delay-No
Hope for Silver

nope 1Or oliver.
Denver, July 7.-W. E Johnson express
ident of the Florence and Cripple Creek
railroad and one of the large property
owners of the state, returned yesterday
from England after a stay of several
| months in London.
''One thing is very evident across the
| water" said he, ''and that is the remark
able celebrity of the manufacturers in
getting out goods and shipping them to
| this country. Judging by the movement
1 noticed, the English are the swiftest
people in the world. The factories are
running day and night and every ship
bottom that can be brought into harbor
is utilized in conveying manufactured ar
ticles toward the domain of Uncle Sam.
Never in the history of the country was
there such hustle.
1.-The activity was equaled only by the
inward movement from the colonies in
commemoration of the jubilee. I left Eng
land about a week before the programme
opened, but London was a jam of human
ity. On the streets were crowded men
from every nation under the sun. 1t was a
vast cosmopolitan gathering and every
where were heard expressions of heartfelt
loyalty to the queen. No other country
the world has ever seen could have made
such a demonstration as has been wit
messed in England.
NO. said Mr.. Johnson, "I do not be-
Eeve the financial sentiment is changing
in any appreciate degree in the old coun-
try. 1t is possible the government may see
its way to open the Indian mints and to
bring about a larger use of silver at home,
but when it comes to free coinage, it
would be quite a different question. Eng
land is really prospering. Her trade is
something immense and it is growing.
Notwithstanding the inroads of German
and American manufactured articles In
Manchester 1 found half a dozen station
airy engines which are made in one of the
little towns in New York, and the Yam
KEGS are selling razors and scissors by
the wholesale in the city of Sheffield.
South America presents very large
market for English manufactures and
good many ships depart from the ports
laden with merchandise for Mexico. The
United States ought to control that trade.
The ironworks in England are carried
forward at their full capacity. They are
shipping structural iron to this country.
The amount of goods coming here must
be incalculable and the English are not
losing a minute in taking advantage of
the delay in the tariff.
81 met a number of investors. Quite
generally this class of men are of the
opinion that better times at hand all
over the world. I find that the sentiment
is not confined to England, either. The
English do not care SO much about the
tariff, deeply as they object to the high
tariff, as they do about the finances. They
would like to this country reach some
settled condition of finances and if it is to
be free coinage of silver, let it come as
soon as possible. This unsettled condition
makes it almost impossible to place large
properties of any kind in the English
market and very little is done in the
placing of mines, even good gold mines"
Mr.. Johnson says he made several trips
by water down the Thames river and no
ticed that bales of rags We're being taken
aboard outbound ships. He was informed
that the rags were carried to Germany,
made into paper and the paper was then
brought to England and placed on the
market. This struck a practical western
man strange anomaly in the business
world