The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-09-23
LABOR HIGHLY PAID.
Triumph OF American Machinery In All
Parts of the World.

Parts of the World.
No greater compliment to American
manufactures and American workmen
can be found than that expressed by the
| demand being made upon them by the
| world for high grade instruments and
machinery. Coarse. heavy goods which
show their quality upon their face and
which are not subjected to pIoial strain
or breakage of their parts are purchased
in any market, but those who purchase
complicated and delicately constructed
machinery which must be handled and
operated by persons thousands of miles
from the place of construction and I'M
familiar with its details show conf
dence in the quality of material and
faithfulness in construction which is
compliment to those who make and to
those who sell these articles
That the people of the world have
confidence in American goods of this
character and therefore in the people
who make and sell them is shown by
the large orders which our manufacture
ers of fine and complicated machinery
have received in the fiscal year just
ended. Telephones, telegraph instru.
ments, typewriters, bicycles, steam en-
gines, fire engines, railway engines,
metal working machinery, shoe manu-
featuring machinery, electrical ma
chinery, sewing machines, printing
presses, instruments for scientific pur-
poses, clocks, watches, pianos, organs
and other articles of this delicate and
complicated character, the production
of American workmen and American
manufacturers, amounting in value to
$50, 900, 900, have been purchased from
us by other parts of the world in the
year just ended.
A million dollars worth q week has
been taken from the people of the Unit
ed States by the people of distant ma
tions as practical evidence of their adj
miration for and confidence in the
American workman and the American
manufacturer. From the great manu-
featuring countries of England, Ger
many and France; from japan, China
and India, VIII re generations of skilltul
men lived, t'sr he'd and passed away
before wheel was turned or q factory
established in America; from tie forests
of Africa and the islands of Oceanica,
from Turkey, from Persia, from siam,
from Korea, from Alden, the Azores,
Auckland FIJI, Tonga, Samoa, MaCa-
gascar, Tripoli, German africa, Span
ish OceaniCa, British australasia, Dutch
East Indies, French / uiana, Portuguese
Africa, Asiatic Russia and countries Of
Central and South America come orders
for the product of American workmen
| and American factories. Japanese fin
/ gers manipulate or typewriters, Chi
nese feet and hands give motion and life
to our sewing machines, skilled opera
tors in the great European centers COM
municate with others in distant parts Of
the world with our telegraph instru-
, ments, and the natives of Africa, India
and Oceauica disport themselves on our
bicycles. Complicated instruments from
our workshops are carried to the oppo-
site side of the globe and to inaccessible
and sparsely populated parts of the earth
in a calm confidence that in inexperi-
enced hands they will perform and con-
! tinue to perform the duties for which
they are constructed.
| That this confidence is fully justified
by experience is shown by the steadily
increasing demand for our machinery.
For years we have exported from 50,
900, 900 to SO, 900. 900 worth per annum
of sewing machines, sending them to
all parts Of the earth, and the figures
for the past year range far above the
average of the decade. From the time
that typewriters and bicycles came into
use there has been a demand upon us
for them, and now their expectation
ranges into the millions and their pur-
ohasers are found in every part Of the
globe.
OF typewriting machines the outside
world has in a single year taken the
value Of $1,000, 1853; Of bicycles, SO,
$40, 529; Of sewing machines, %, 1876,
1854; of scientific and electrical instru-
ments, etc., 81, no, SO3. Intelligent
labor highly paid is the secret of this
extraordinary triumph of American
skill, according to the free trade Lon
don Times; while another eminent free
trade authority, the London Economist,
accounts for the successful invasion Of
the worlds markets by the products Of
American skilled labor by the fact that
under the American system Of proteo-
tion the profits earned by manufactur-
ers have been largely expended in the
enlargement of facilities and the i'm
provement Of processes and appliances.