The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-13
GREAT BRITAIN
ADMITS DECAY
0utstripped in All Ways by
United States.
EVEN THE CANDY
NOW AMERICAN MADE
The Events in South Africa
0minOuS.

London. Jan. l2.-Great Britain's de-
cadence is becoming quite popular
theme. -debasement and self
flagellation seem to be congeniaI to
the chastened spirit of the nation,
forced to realize, through the accumu-
lation of reverses military, diplomat lie
and Industrial, that Great Britain 5
urcdominance as q dream Is past. 1t IS
almost a daily occurrence for some
great London newspaper TO parade the
shortcomings Of The country, institut-
ing comparisons with the United states
and Germany, little complimentary TO
Great Britain.
Lost opportunities. says the Morn
ing Post. lis the keynote. and the
Britain which could dictate its viii TO
the ends Of the earth is today
myth
The great wooden and allied trades
threaten 20 be revolutionized by an
American machine which is now oper-
stfnr al Bradford. What it all will
open up is not fully apparent at first
sight" says The Bradford observer
but il looks as III the position at pres
emf occunied BY ArkWright and Cromp-
the nineteenth century is 10 be super
seeded by DTury in the twentieth. How
is il that this idea was LETT To
Yankee lawyer to bring OUT
Drury's invention is described as the
simplest vet devised. It is capable Of
spinning the toughest yarns from
a asbestos or peat moss without dill
fculty. Drury let Boston two years
ago.
7z7s-1- r. A,,,.,;car, CANDY
The Daily Telegraph calls attention to
the enormous increase in the use Of
American confectionery in England
which. il SAYS. would be even greater
than it is were the American manu-
facturers to show more elasticity IN
trade methods 1t also declares that
America is soon likely to be supplying
Jaw Bricks" The most suitable cam
paigning samples have already been
sent back for Improvement Ihese are
now assured
small wonder. indeed" says the
Daily Telegraph. that the British
fruit grower has cause for complaint
that the demand is not what ii was for
his products"
California fruit appears to be making
tremendous inrOads into the English
jam trade.
Even from the Philippines come rec
concentrations to adopt American
methods Mr.. Percival of London
writes to the Times from Manila urging
the British troops in South Africa TO
use the tunic Dieat worn by the Amer
lean troops to protect the spine. and
also their webbing cartridge belt and
method lOr preserving surgical dress
ing. The suggestion about the belt is
already in force. An American firm
has a newIy-erected factory here turn
ing out 70 its fullest capacity these
belts for the war Office
Angry at Senator Proctor.
Senator ProctOr's Italian marble cor
uer draws forth from Today an indis
uant protest. 1t says
.iWho, for instance, is Senator Proc
tor. that he should create for his own
enrichment a scarcity of Carrara mar
BILE i'm which the highest art of all ages
in Europe has found its noblest eV-
precision" and so OBJ in a similar strain.
maintaining that the senator has no
right TO assume a dictatorship of the
worlds art.
Bur it is not only in commerce that
the spread of American Ieaven is SO
patent. In the national game, Rugby
football, hitherto so distinctive of
American rules and whose devotees
were so proud of the fact. the British
are now beginning to closely initiate