The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-04-04

world fifty years from now" said Sec.
retary of Agriculture James Wilson.
"Our situation then will be very diff.
ferent from what it is to-day, and
most markedly in one respect-name.
ly, that we shall be selling to foreign
buyers very little in the way of crude
products, but an immense deal in the
shape of manufactured articles. In
other words we shall be utilizing at
home our raw material and disposing
abroad Of the output of the inventive
genius and dexterous handiwork. Our
rule will be not to let anything go out
of the United States that has not as
many days work attached 10 it as
practicable.
FIFTY years from now we shall be
engaged in catering to the best educa
ted caste Of Europe. We shall be fur
nishing them with the best grade Of
horse they can get and they will be
looking to US for the very best farm
products Of all kinds. We shall sell
to them the finest dairy products OBJ
tainable anywhere, and meats like
wise, but only the choicest and ex-
pensive kinds. At the present time
we are obliged to buy the favored for
eign cheeses, because we do not know
how to make them here; but you may
be very sure that this will not con-
tinue. We will manufacture such
cheeses not only for our own consump-
tion, but also for export. We shall
ship the highest priced poultry
abroad and our vegetables will go, not
in the raw state, but in cans, as man
featured products. With fruits it will
be the same way as with the vcgeta-
tables.
Machinery and all sorts of mcchan-
ical appliances we are shipping abroad
to some extent nowadays, but fifty
years hence we shall export such mer-
chandise in immense quantities. We
shall supply the world with locomo-
tives and We shall furnish steel
bridges in sections, for use III most
distant countries. It would not sur
prise me bit, were surviving at that
epoch, to find US building battleships
and cruisers in sections with convert
ible parts. Supposing that German
or French war vessel suffers damage in
sea fight, the 4AAmeTicau manufactu-
rer who turned out the craft original
ly will provide at short notice dupli-
Gates Of the injured portions. At
that future period oul furniture.
stoves, typewriters and pianos will be
for sale in ali lands and will
hold frat place everywhere for
cheapness relative to quality. We
shall be great exporters Of rugs and
carpets.
"Only the other day J chanced to
listen to little dialogue, right here
in Washington, between one Of our
most eminent mensand q distinguish
ed Russian. The latter remarked,
half jokingly, that it was rather dam
gerous for us to send ell our latest in
ventions and achievements Of meohan-
ioai ingenuity to che Paris Exposition
inasmuch as they would afford object
lessons to Europeans, who would not
be slow to take up the ideas thus Of
fered and initiate them. THAT is
what we want you to do,,,replied the
American. Nothing could please us
better than that you should make
study Of the best things we are able to
show and initiate, them as well as you
know how. For. by the time chat you
have succeeded, we shall be turning
out something altogether superior.
We are always willing to sell 40 you
our best. being sure before you are
ready to make it we shall be doing
better. s
'That is one Of the theories at tho
bottom Of Yankee progress in order to
get what is best Europeans will al
ways have to come to us, and in this
matter it will be the same half cen-
tury from now as it is to-day, only
more so. We shall still be further
ahead of them than VIC are at the pres
ent time. We will clothe the foreign
peoples. They will wear our shoes.
because they can be got better and
cheaper in the United States than
anywhere else. We shall even make
ready-made houses to live in, shipping
thom in sections, a whole read y-mafle Q
town in one ship load. But, speaking
Of clothing, think Of the wool we can
raise 10 this country--all kinds Of it.
for every Imaginable ,nnrnoee s. We Y 6