Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-12-06

and encouragement which Republicans
and Americans outside of that State |
can give them. They are right, even |
if the fight in Delaware goes ON until
doomsday. And in their just and |
righteous resolution they should he |
upheld.
FOREIGN TRADE OPPORTUNITIES.
Decline of England Leaves Field Open to
Best Bidder.
London Cor. New York sun.
doubt il the American people have
any idea how critical in the industrial
and commercial history Of the country
the first four or five years of the new
century are to be. A revolution in the
foreign trade OF the world is already
we'll under way and its crisis is CLOSE
at hand. The question Is not whether
America can wrest it fiom Great BIit-
ain. The conditions are such in this
country that England can no longer
retain it; she c8unot, indsed, much
longer hold her own against foreign
competition in her markets at home.
| Tho real struggle now impending 10 ee-
| tween the United States and Germany
| for the worlds markets, which are
about TO change hands.
| Because the British workman 10 un-
| progressive, unskillful and incident,
and because labor is much more ex-
pensive in Great Britain than in any
| other country. The British employer
and the individual British workman
are alike poweress to change these
conditions presume the impression
still exists widely in America that
labor is more poorly paid 10 England
than in the United States That fal-
lacy has deprived American manuiac.
tuters of large share OF the worlds
trade for more than 20 years. The in
ference that, because days wages in
England are 80 to 30 per cent less in
the United States therefore labor coats
more in the latter country. is defective
in logic as we'll as false in fact.
The truth ia that the American
workman and the German workman
work for their wages and the British
workman does not. 10 not let 1t be
. inferred that Great Britain is a ma
Sion Of loafers by instinct and choice.
, It is true that olasa distinctions and
restrictions, which do not exist il
America. kill ambition in this country,
| but the root of the evil il far wors'
tyranny than that. The policy OF thu
workman's own organizations, whicf
restricts output to that q rrespondins
, to the CAPACITY of the NEST inconpe
i tent and lazy OF their number, is re
sponsible for the collapse of British
a trade. 1t Is almost incredible to VIVA
r lengths this policy is carried. In tn
a case Of automatic machines, for in
lbtsnce, a British trades union some
: times requires the assignment OF ON
!. mau 10 ca h machine, while in Amer
: lea the ouetom will be one man to
r machines.
a The folly Of such policy and th
! inevitable ruin which it invites woul
seem to be sufficiently obvious, but
n is still stoutly defended by trade
j. union managers, who are the real auto
q orats OF the situation. They argue tina
II work is thus provided for men wh
y would otherwise be idle, and they al
Indifferent to the fart that idlenes
/. for all concerned will be their fea
d when foreign competition has had tim
q 10 make itself felt.
II Such then lie the situation whic
i offers the moat tempting opIortunit
il to rival peoples which history has TT
II corded since the American Civil Wal
;, Then England gathered into her hant
i, tho sources OF her present wealth
"A Today, as the price of England IS fol
ly America may take her own again an
r. more. Germany also is straining ever
N nerve for the same prize and it is wit
n her that America must really reckon.
ca Just here should be spoken stror
1. word of warning. American mauufa
ia turers who want to secure Engils
10 markets should send to this count
8, only the best they can produce.
10 would be worse than folly at this crit
nt cal juncture to send to England chez
nj ehoddy goods. English standards a
an high, and even if you deceive buy
ar once with an article of poor quality.
r. will he impossible to do it agai
III Everything American suffered in u
a. English markets three or four yea
In ago because INSCRIPTIONS Americi
- manufacturers sent here an immen
f quantity Of almost WORTHLESS bicycle
sp They were sold at low prices, but tn
n were dear at any price. There is
n. more promising field for America
,r. competition than the boot and sh
as market, but here again prejudice mt
n be overcome, for thousands Of social
of American boots and shoes have be
o. sent here which no one in the Unit
~ States would buy at any price.
al There is splendid opportunity
no building up an enormous Americ
,re trade in ENGLAND in American goods
bs thu best quality at reasonable price
iii The chief, in fact the only, obstacle
lr the British pride, which las AREA
" been aroused 1t is intensely gallir
m ESPECIALLY TO a people of such AM
an oedents az those of this country, to Fl
on that they can be undersold III TN
ri. own markets. As far as their pur!
,e- will allow them many are jnclinel
an buy only English goods even at higt
sIv prices. I know of publisher dol
,ar an immense business who deliberate
so refused to save $500, 900 year BY bu
,as ing his paper from America. Th'
he are many similar instances on SINAI
,at scale. and the boycotting of forei
,en goods may attain the proportions OF
ar. nation al. patriotic movement If
hv does, it will be but temporary. L
IN inexo,able laws of barter and tra
can not be set aside for long, and pri
,ad will toll in the end. Let America
il in and win for hrself the grand
me prosperity the world has ever known
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oiS pheu Christmas Comes,