Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
A Unique Industrial Triumph,


From the New York Press.
Undoubtedly the most spectacular of
American industrial triumphs is that to
be credited to a Chicago firm for securing
an order for 500 automobiles, or horseless
carriages. from a French company and
for use in France.
Economically, this is the reversal of the
rule. broken before only by abnormal
cheap labor conditions, as in Japan. that a
nation exports only its surplus products.
There was certainly no surplus product of
these vehicles here. They have been so
far from coming into general use that the
few of them seen on the streets are still
regarded as curiosities. They are pecU-
liarly a creation of European conditions,
where city pavements and country roads
are adapted for their use, where horse1esh
and horse feed are alike dear. and where.
moreover. there is no racial attachment
to the harness horse as a motive power,
BY far the greater part of the American
public has been doubtless surprised to
know that there is in the country a plant
capable of turning out so large a number
of these vehicles.
That which is to be noted. therefore,.
Is that American Industrial skill and COM
mercial s~hrewdness have been able to sup
ply one Of the latest. most complex and
unprecedented of European needs better
than Europeans are able to supply 1t them
selves. This is the more remarkable in
view of all we have heard from consular
reports and other trustworthy sources of
the American manufacturers Indifference
to the requirements of foreign customers.
There Is a long record of American VIC
tories in this field of wheeled goods. But
the conquests of the American steam loco
motive and bicycle and electric railway car
have been. by gradual approaches, due In
every case to the necessity of finding a
vent for the superfluous products of enor.
nous plants which had satisfied the de-
mands even of the great home market. In
his new branch Of electric road wagon
building a great step has been taken toward
controlling a foreign market before the
home market has grown up. When We
consider that this has been the result OF
the workings of an industrial system which
has put the maintenance of the wage of
the employed. and. consequently, the stand
ard Of living. above all other considerations
we have new evidence that the soundest
economics is that which looks first to the
quality of the man behind the machine.
Their Good Words for Gold.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A seeker after truth about monetary SCI
ence. In looking through a musty congress
sional report recently. came upon a state
ment which astonished him when he read
the authority. The report was made by a
silver commission in 1876. 1t contained this
statement:
Whenever. under the double standard.
there is a variance between the legal mar
ket relations Of the metals, the standard
and it the cheaper and more available one.
Whenever the legal and market relations
coincide; there would be duality in the
material of the standard. but unity in its
value. which would make it in its aii-im-
portant feature a single standard"
The astonishing part of the report is
that two Of the five names subscribed to
1t are John P. Jones. the present senator
from Nevada, and Richard P. Bland, the
apostle Of Is to l. "a splendid argument
for a single standard" the seeker char
acterizes this early declaration of Senator
Jones and Mr.. Bland. The other indorsers
Of the principle were Lewis v. Bogy, sena-
tor from Missouri. and Representative
George Willard and William A. Groesbeck.
New OveralIs Beat No.socks.
From the indianapolis Journal.
Jerry Simpson. of Kansas, Is telling his
associates that prosperity defeated him.
MANY people," he said. got money enough
to buy a new pair Of ~overalls and a little
credit at the grocery. and therefore lost in
terest in 16 to l." Some of the people may
remember the sheer of the disgruntled DEM
agogue.
A Botkinnry Precaution.
From the New York Press.
Presents received anonymously. If edible,
should be tried on the dog first
A Way Out.
From the Chicago Record.
On the basis Of mutual concessions could
1t not be played as "Cyrano de Gross here
after?
Reflection of . Bachelor.
From the New York Press.
Advanced thought Is hardest on the ba-
bIes.
A genuine firt never knows where she
Is going to end.
For every wrinkle a woman gets on her
face she gets ten on her heart.
A woman can't understand how a mans