Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-01-25
BR|TONS SELF CRITICS
LOSING Their PLACE
As WORLD DICTATORS
Americans and Germans Making In
roads in Hitherto Exclusive
British Fields -Adopting
Methods Of Americans.

London. Jan. 12.- Great Britain's
decadence is becoming quite popular
theme. Selfdebasement and self flag
citation seem to be congenial to the
chastened spirit of the nation. forced
to realize. through the accumulation
of reverses, military, diplomatic ana
Industrial, that Great Britains FREEDOM
nance dream Is past. Ii Is almost
daily oCu.. CnCe for some great Lon
don new. %. per to parade the snort
comings OF the country, instituting
comparisons with the United States
and Germany. little complimentary TO
Great Britain.
Lost opportunity" says the Morn
ing Post. lis the keynote, and the Brit
ain which could dictate its Will to the
ends of the earth Is today a myth
The great WOODEN and allied trades
threaten TO be revolutionized by an
ating at Bradford.
What 1t all will open up is not fully
apparent at first sight says the
Bradford Observer, but 1t looks as
If the position at present occupied Ivy
Arkwright and Compton in the world
o, inventors during the nineteenth
century is to be superseded by Drury
in the twentieth. How Is II that this
idea was left to a Yankee lawyer to
bring out?'
Drury's invention is described as the
simplest yet devised. It is capable OF
spinning the toughest yarns from as
bestos or peat moss without difficulty.
Drury left Boston two years ago.
The Daily Telegraph calls attention
to the enormous increase in the use
OF American confectionery In England,
which, II says, would be even greater
than 1t Is were the American manu-
facturers to show more elasticity in
trading methods.
Small wonder, indeed" says the
Daily Telegraph, that the British
fruit grower has cause for complaint
that the demand is not what 1t was
for his products" California fruit
appears to be making tremendous in
roads into the English Jam trade.
Even from the Philippines comes
recommendations to adopt American
methods. Percivall of London writes
to the Times from Manila urging the
british troops in South Africa to use
the tunic plat worn by the American
troops to protect the spine, and also
their webbing cartridge belts and
methods for preserving surgical dress
ing. The suggestion about the belt
Is already in force. An American firm
has a newly erected factory here, turn.
out, to its fullest capacity these belts
.,r the war Office.
Senator Proctor's Italian marble
corner draws forth from Today an in.
dignant protest. It says: who, for
instance, is Senator Proctor, that he
should create for his own enrichment
scarcity of Carrara marble, in which
the highest art of all ages In Europe
/ has found its noblest expression"
and so on in n similar strain, main
tanning that the Senator has no right
TO assume dictatorship Of the worlds
art.
| But 1t Is not only in commerce that
the spread of American leaven is so
patent. In the national game, Rugby
football, hitherto so distinctive of
American rules, and whose devoteas
were so proud of the fact, the British
are now beginning to closely initiate
the distinguishing features Of Yankee
gridiron play. At the recent England
and Wales match when 10000 specta
tors were present, the experts were
amazed to see what was called "puz
zling hand to hand passing of the
Welsh team" This was nothing NOR,
than the familiar swapping back prac
ticed by all American colleges. but
which is a revelation here. It had NJ
small effect in securing for Wales {
sweeping victory.