Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-23

r,hioh III Treasury and Custom House
( s,sbsccf sfhe American traveller.
7srhe ST. James Gazette, Commenting
on the above says:
y Now that the United States has re-
Aai;ued sthe existence OF another hemis-
Dhere they will soon give up their old
5ashioned notions, appropriate to their
salad DAYS and the annoying farce of a
C,,etofn House will disappear with all
the refuse OF the oM regime"
American Industrial competition has
again come prominently to the front
this week. Hardly a day has passed
without an article or a letter on the
subject in the London newspapers. The
ATBARA BRIDGE CONTRACT.
which, has almost assumed the pro-
portions OF a national question, came
before the House OF Commons on
Thursday, when the government was
asked a string of questions on the sub
iect. to which the Parliamentary Sec
rotary of the foreign office, Right Hon.
William st. John Brodrlck. was only
able to reply that he had no inIorma-
ton beyond what was contained in the
report recently issued by Lord Gro
smer, the British agent IN EGYPT.
The Times has printed lengthy ar
ticle on American competition IN the
iron trade and called attention to Am
erica's Jump in exports of iron ana
steel, one result being that Englsn
prices and exports alike are not en-
tirely fixed by home OF continental
competition, as they used to be, but by
the prevailing tone OF. the markets and
industrial situation generally IN the
United States. 1t adds that notable
case in point was the combined EFFORT
of the British rail manufacturers to
keep up the price OF heavy sections,
which resulted in the partial rein OF
that branch of the business, the, Amer
leans. taking the orders instead OF the
British.
Continuing, the Times remarks:
THE situation is truly serious for the
British manufacturers, who are asking
two fundamental Questions-Whetner
AMERICAN COMPETITION
must inevitably regulate in the future
British exports and prices, and Wheth-
rer il is worth while struggling on I'M
der such an oyermastering incubus.
Dealing with the imports OF Ameri-
can manufactures, the Times thinks
that the prospects are rather brighter,
and says:
1.-THE British manufacturers mind is
somewhat relieved by the fact that
prices in America are rising in man
ner which must satisfy even the aver
age Americans aspirations for
boom, the duration of which is the up
permostatopic of concern
The article concludes with the hope
full remark that there is less reason to
apprehend flood of American inn
ports of iron and steel in 1899 than
there was last year.
The newspapers in the iron working
districts are taking the matter up. The
Darlington North Star says:
"The American entry into the Brit
i ish markets is a positive danger.
Every one knows it is never safe. 10
let a customer go elsewhere. There is
good reason for all interested in the
iron and steel trades in Great Britain
tosseriously consider the question"
The Non-C onformists, in their
churches and organs, continue their
bitter denunciations of seyen-day
newspapers and it seems likely that
the agitation will develop into wide
spread boycott. The ministers are ap-
pealing to their congregations to
pledge themselves not to read a news
spaper publishing a Sunday edition.
The British Weekly calls on the church
to fight the battle and advises That the
boycott be extended to every publica-
ton of the firms Involved. The Meth
sodist Times urges Methodists not only
not to buy the newspapers, but
TO INFLUENCE TRADESNlE,N
against advertising in them.
A protest meeting was held in Lon
don on Thursday. at which two thous-
and persons were present, against the
seyen-day papers. Mr. Sydney Webb,
chairman OF the Technical Education
Board, and sonae. time lecturer on po-
litical economy st the City OF London
College and WTosgsin grnen'ss college and
now at the L0nuoT School of Econo-
mics and Political Science, proclaimed
his opinion that the Sunday news
paper is dishonoIing and disgraceful to