The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-28
IN MARKETS OF TIE WORLD
ARE AMERICAN MANUFACTURER
SUCCESSFULLY COMPETING FOR
NEW BUSINESS
WHY A PROTECTIVE TARIFF
When the Products of United States
Furnaces and Factories Can
Be Sold Abroad at
PrOfit3

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. N.-Runors that Col.
Girouard, military director of railroads
in South Africa, had placed large orders
for rails and rolling stock IN the United
States caused no little commotion IN Lon
don, While the official dereal Of the war
department has allayed the more acute
fears of the manufacturers, the broad
question of American commercial COM
petition in this newly acquired country is
by no means disposed Of
There is probably no better authority
on this interesting subject than Mr.. w.
j. Chalmers, of Chicago, who has just
completed an extensive tour of European
manufacturing centers. The fact that his
firm has plants both in England and Chi
cago makes him especially qualified to
discuss the matter impartiaily.
1T is delicate matter for me- said
Mr.. Chalmers, with a board of directors
in England and in the United States, 10
discuss the relative ability of the TWO
countries In matters of commercial ac-
tivity. Yet the fact remains that the
United States is carrying off the great
bulk of the trade not only in South Afri-
ca, but in the foreign markets of the
world. 1t is true we have a large plant
in England and from 900 to 1000 en-
ployes for the manufacturing Of mining
machinery, while our Chicago shops en-
pley an equal number
MACHINERY FOR AFRICA.
1--WE are now engaged here and in Chi
cago manufacturing some of the deepest
mining machinery for South African
| mines with large orders However. my
| observation in England and other parts
of Europe has not been confined to our
affairs. There is no doubt the United
States today is not only prepared to COM
pete in the markets of the world, but Is
doing is successfully, and will continue
to do so till England and the est of
Europe are prepared to invest sufficient
capital to make an Andrew Carnegie pos
sible here. The beauty OF Mr.. Carnegie
and many other American manufacturers
Is that they are pursuing j purely COM
mercial policy, as COntrasted with
stock-jobbing policy The Question in Mr.
Carnegie's mind, and i employ that as il
| Illustrative of scores Of other American
manufacturers is, What IS the lowest
price / can produce a certain ardc4 for,
and what price can l obtain fer ito Thus
at the dullest times they are preparing
! for good times, and when the Industrial
| harvest time comes the United States is
prepared to sell steel, coal, steel plates,
| electrical and mining machinery and ma
| chine tools lower than The rest of the
world. The English steel manufacturers
proclaim the fact that if steel C )rnes Gown
! to $40 per ton she will make it at less.
] The United States, however is making
! steel al $50 per ton, and selling it at
profit. l was at a great tool works in
Berlin. the other day. where all the ma
| chine tools came from the United States.
They had just put up new steel con-
structed foundry, 500 by 120 feet, all the
material for which was sent to Berlin
from the United States within ninety days
from the date of the contract as against
six months, the quickest Euope9n hid,
and at Is per cent less cost. In every
shop in Germany nine-tenths of the ma
chine tools used We're made in the United
States. Mr.. Guggenheim of New York,
| is leaving England tonight for Buenos
Ayres to see if it is possible that smelt-
ing furnaces may be constructed there,
| whereby native ores maye be used at less
| price than they are now using Bolivian
ores, which they are transporting all the
way to Puebla Col where they are smelt-
ing and sending them to Europe at a
profit What the result of all this may
be no one may foretell, but 1t seems to
me that the United States is bound to
sell the world it's manufactured products
in all the leading industrial commodi-
ties