Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-01-30
A. C. HARHswoRrH

a. - = . ," "oh London Daily Mail,
has the largest circulation in the world
-1,250,O0O copies.
Speaking Of American Immigrants to
England Mr.. Harmsworth says: you
ask why the British empire, with Its
population Of 3SS.OOO.00O, needs immi-
grants, and answer that we don't
want them in the bulk, as you do, but
that we obviously offer unique oppor-
tunities to certain special skilled brain
workers. Take Mr.. Yerkes, for exam
pie. He will make more money in a
day in transporting the densely packed
millions Of London in his electric tubes
than he does in n week in Chicago. We
have lots of room and money for all
your experts in electrical transit. The
brains you have given to these matters
we have devoted to shipping and gold
mining.
1--WE own and run under our own flag
100000 of tons of shipping, with q
100000 under other flags, as against
less than 100000 Of tons owned by the
United States, and we also own most
Of the best gold fields of the world, with
the control of the diamond industry
thrown in. But we know practically
nothing about electricity, and your
people can make all the money they
want selling us the wonderful products
of American Invention and industry.
Money is more easily made in our coun-
try than in yours.
I'VE have In that small section of the
empire known as Great Britain at least
100000 of people, and though we do
not produce Rockefellers and Astors q
except, of course, my compatriot, Mr..
w. W., of that ilk), we have much the
richest and quite the worst educated of
modern peoples. Our American ammi-
grants are profiting by this lack of edu-
cation to seize industries right and left.
eve shall learn their methods slowly,
and meanwhile they are making for
tunes while we are paying the price of
national apathy in regard to modern
methods of transit and manufacture.
But our American immigrants are not
SO successful as they should be, consid-
ering the advantages they possess.
II 1ahS thC illSA w uO tilCu W SuPIuS Jul
bicycle industry as an example. We
were the real pioneers of the cycle
trade. Then you came along with an
equally good bicycle, made by the thou
sand by automatic machinery. You
could easily undersell our handmade
article.
"But you suffered Mt first by sending
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roads and our national prcjudices.
When l heard your statesmen trying to
force goods we did not want at the
cycle exhibits, could not but be struck
by your similarity of mind to ours. We
lose all the time by telling customers
what they ought to have, while the Ger
man gives them what they want.
'Well. after time your bicycle mer
got wiser. But what happened? The
makers of all kinds of American bl
cycles, good and bad, mostly bad, who
had got caught in the slump, dumped
down their stocks in England and killed
the American bicycle from that mo
ment.
"This," continued Mr.. Harmsworth
rs not the only American industry
abroad that is being killed by the
'snide' manufacturer. You have a biz
chance now with automobiles; thu
American shoe, too, is making grea
progress. We shall shortly be spending
$5O0,00O,000 converting our horse Gu
services to electric; you can get most O
that We must put up two or three
times that amount for new suburban
surface car systems for our big city
Much of that will go to the lmmigran
from America.
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