New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-16
YANKEE COMPETITION"
SCOTTISH INDUSTRIES SERIOUSLY HURT
BY 1T.

SCOTTISH INDUSTRIES SERIOUSLY HURT
CONSUL, FLEMING TELLS OF THE EFFECT ON
THE srrE1.MAK1No ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ING AND BOOT AND SHOE TRADES
Try TELEGRAPH TO TRIBuNEl
Washington. jan l5.-At the present rate Yankee
competition will soon become n daily text OF as
cussion In the newspapers and trade journals OF
Europe which keep pace with commercial develop
ment and progress. as 1t has already become mat
ter OF anxious soicitude to foreign manufacturers
engaged In various branches Of industry rms laS
Is strongly impressed by Consul Fleming. OF Edin-
burgh in report TO the Department OF state dateo
December q. 1895. On that date The Glasgow her
aid" published elaborate review OF the trace OF
Scotland in 1895 each branch OF production Deins
covered by an article contributed by correspond
ent who was an expert therein Consul Fieming re-
marks that the year had been exceptionally
prosperous IN the principal Industries. and then
proceeds 10 quote some interesting and Significant
references to American competition. A paragraph
from the article the steel trade reads as follows:
While considerable strides in the Improvement and
naces have been made during recent years i Is
particularly noticeable that the scotch lronase rs
are content TO allow their blast furnaces 10 remain
with slightly increased capacity. compared with
many years ago nfod sne WHOSE ex
traordinsry success seems 10 threaten the trade Of
the world
building which kept the works in Scotland fairly
busy during the year. laments the absence OF FOR
eign orders The British colonies and possessions
had not made their weight felt TO any great ex-
tent" although New South Wales, Ceylon and
Uganda had each required ten engines for their
current wants" South America continued closed.
although within the last few days the Leopoldina
Company has given out an order for fifteen en-
gines"
This almost solitary order however" could not
be looked upon "as a proper awakening. and
eond af N ordef s s been be from
in 1858, but IAN inquiry" had Just been received Tor
GUSHING BRITISH MANUFACTURERS.
The expert continues.
Lately the Ame5cans have been to great ow sH
sss IL 5 S6 d ear eya but e HSf
japan toward British engines and they now con:
time and pay possibly higher price for our Zen. EN-
power and substantially Of structure, and that
can engine is more than lost in the frequent repairs
necessiiated by the relative weakness OF It's paris
toward the british engine. and il British makers
IN position to give reasonably cary AIRY f Gev
such profitable market.
While the trade is 50 brisk with orders from our our
making headway in markets open TO ALL and II is
s by no 6 mTa home will be able 10 Dust
from these markets where they nave s, nbn
firm footing Home makers in normal lines o cam
a s0d so while they are at present endeavorns
meet the urgent wants of these FIELDS they may be
Trails when the time comes round again when they
s9s ma ark fo the Of
already practically closed to them as res n.
our home makers are unable 10 compete success
fully with Continental makers In purely Con,i-
cas- opportunity. and the American makers have
been IN IN been ooRe
purely British make and dnE R a as that
tbe American engine viii ultimately condemn It.
self will be required to bring f aoou1 , n
and and Formidable element in British markets when
the boom has passed.
r the es9es and deveoped BY
neers which he says is far more o,,eu, s,Iu
sxaGas sh az R s9h S He
an American locomotive shop for every hv I've, men
snar %%he taxes the labor Of fifteen men
for twelve months in BIitish shoP 70 Wesipinser
engineers
co,s,r p,sr,,nr.s comment on the foregoing state
ment Is: c..u,o,, -.
The fact that the Midland Railway Company re-
comoves would seem to indicate that me , man On
the part American Sc0moye builders TO meet
,ha Westminster
In discussing agricultural machinery The Her
la. r.y+ew has this to say about American COM
petition; , Ill, ro,a,,
sne o tbs ntroduction Of a new American com
petor. In the e4P0r, iors and in the binder
trade zone Of the most valuable branches OF ne eA
port trade they have practically monopoly,
AMERICAN BOOTS AND SHOES THE BEoI.
rhs expert who writes concerning the boot and
shoe industry considers the condition Of the trade
TO be far from satisfactory and attributes 1t largely
II not mainly to American competition Aihohs
other things he says:
To add to the dulness among manufacturers, a
large portion OF colonial trade was fairly
the moment OF writing, have practically the whole
boot and shoe trade OF anufacn,rers
during the pushed our home .rag ~ ,be
United Kingdom and have firmly established them
selves in our midst TO our dnn9yanc9 ba n1 iher
manufactures, for beauty of style, handsome APP
pcarance and perfection OF it, excel ours IN ET our
msnufacturers hitherto have pretended indifference
1f 0Ck4 % shd sns hop pshe
for them has been realized for the best OF all
is the Identical sort which our own manufact urers
use in the greater portion Oh tneir gooa nc bni the
Americans. in upper leather almost entirely ana IN
our curriers' and tanners who are compel>d 10 own
that they must adopt American methods If they tho,
Of dcspondency and were il not that there e plenty
OF fight left In US the future wouio inoeeo 90
gloomy. -.
Tho question continually asked IN the boot and
shoe trade Is. how comes II that the American 10
able to deliver our doors boots and shoes at
prices considerably less than can be accepted by
our own manufacturers. while at the same time
American leather. OF which by far the largest pro-
portion Of our boots and shoes are composed, is
sold 10 our manufacturers at prices even less than
20 American manufacturers? And 10 make the
proved beyond question. that tho boot and shoe
operatives in America earn wages almost double
ours.
The expert bluntly declares that the only way for
the British manufacturers TO regain their former
foo,hold Is 10 initiate American methods