New-York tribune., 1901-06-09
BRITISH PESSIMISM.
ANDREW CARNEGIE TELLS ENGLISH
MEN THE TINE HAS COME FOR THAT
NATION TO CUT IT'S GARMENT
ACCORDING TO ITS CLOTH.

From The Mn eteenth Century CThe Leonard Scott
Company, / ublisher5 in the United states).
For thirty odl years the writer has been visiting
his native land. but never 10 find such dependency
his frien Is of the industrial world as this
year. Even tho. pessimistic who have
hitherto been sta neh optinnists sound in the faitn
Inuddle through" and brilliantly emerge from
threatened disaster she often has before in her
Turn now from ae view backward, and behold
present conditions md p eSto: what nat cnanse ans
The world in anythiL G. no longer even first among
n:s.ing weaving con lnerce Primacy lost in ali.
In seagoing ships stil foremost but even there our
vear from 1ss4 To- ises and was 5000 tons less in
ifsqS nan % IL, ISss " z5-oTs, fhaH all supremacy lost
upon the in fast mons er steamshps-those
unequalled cruisers of waT which now ny the Ger
man flag, all built in tierIr any; not one CORE,
entirely surrendered to y 5iNaI IN lronnaklng
Germany has risen from l~g9 900 to 100000 tons a
product being 100000 tons The United States
made l$.5oecoo tons last yer 20 be exceeded this
In steel the United States Iaade leeSse0 tons last
year and has made this yesgr, far. than
In textiles Lord Masham tel rs in The Times
that we are exporting Less les 3 ana nP9Tg 6 mere In
1881 imported textiles eos 0N and 1899 f33 0O
0Je His Iorisbp that Great Britain has not
increased her export trade one shilling for thirty
Financially we are also rapidly losing primacy.
Sn5 5,@+ors in The Tinted Starts ,ubiob eo ong
our greatest de1t.r, is becoming chief creditor
subscribe our national note for 800 If he viii give
below -. VIC spend in TWO years much upon
Guctions mad in the national debt for fifty years
and the Is stilI costing fl.5o000o week soon
We have Just added tl1.o0o 900 year to our taxes
reduced taxes by that amount, Britain is thus
handicapped more, and our rivals weight lessened
Ve shall not very long be allowed even the boast
Of having the largest city Of the world. since New
-f1g n inst iDT1AN
asaeld a sli lpet da5a a pnr cent while Londos in
crease for the last i've Years New-York m 1910
will almost equal London; in 1915 outstrip her.
ports Of manufactured articles have trehled in five
in 1880 were f26353l.Ooo and never again reached
that sum until 1899. when by adding t5o9O9o for
exports were f26 s go 20, our imports Increased
became more and more dependent upon foreign
Until recently foremost in machinery making.
our tramways and subways are now equipped not
steam engines reGIired irnnorted from America
France shows exports of motor etc, last year
valued at fl 10000; We export none and even buy
The former optimst. now miserable Pessimist:
long is primacy even in that TO be left US when
Cow by the thousands Of tons and to-dav America
IS building two eighteen thousand ton ships? The
others are contracted for of twenty thousand tons.
equal to the monster Celtic.
Our industrial army proves much of date
army is acknowledged TO be- rail-
ways at home and in colonies order their rails,
bridges and steel cars from America Our men
either -annot or do not work like the American, as
The Times's'' special commissioner has proved:
neither DO our captains of industry compare with
thce America.
Such the choice morsels from press and magazine
upon which the discouraged Briton feeds. There
are many others Of similar import: but having
quoted from recent issue Of The Tines" we
shall close the list. although the pessmist no
doubt continues TO dwell the contrast pre-
sented between the backward and the present viefr.
meeting all that is offered in mitigation explara
ton with Hamlet's exclamation. Look here upon
this picture, and on this" He will not be comfort