The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-15

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You don't hear books discussed: you
don't hear talk about gl1f; you are not
told anecdotes about shy9tins: YOU
dent even hear s,Eoking-room stories.
Every man talks about Inoney-fnaklng.
/ At first YOU are staggered; then you
are Disguised: then comes q great Won
der al the energy. the vitality. the IN
waning enthusiasm OF it all
The dry, bracing atmosphere that
keeps a man at the full stretch Of his
/ powers, as a h1lf-bottle Of champaign"
1 will do f.G q time. accounts for much.
/ The American business man drinks
| neither spirits. beer nor wine. One Of
he things that impressed me most
hen l nave lunched with business
men at their clubs has been the abb
senCe Os alcohol. l have lunched in
room where have been a hundred of
| the leading business men of city, and
! / have not seen a glass of ale any
where. Water has been the only drink
| a man who takes spirits in the middle
| of the day is as much looked upon
| askance as a bank manager in Eng
land would be if he were constantly
/ fuddled.
Yes said man to me, there has
been a wonderful change these last ten
years. The strain of business is at
times simply terrible. 4 man couldn't
bear it If he drank. The head must be
! kept cool and clear, and that can't be
if a man drinks. In such bitter. ruth
| less competition as exists to-day-not
only America against the world, but
| Americans against each Other-We have
to be water drinkers in sheer self-pro-
tection.''
An impetus is given to every one EN-
ploying labor to minimize the cost of
labor, and that is done by labor-savng
machinery. The ability to set up as
farmers with no rent to pay sends
wages up, and thus is the cause of
American inventiveness in machinery.
Half-used machinery is thrown aside
for improved machinery, because ev-
erybOdy must adopt every plan to keep
abreast of the competition. There is no
machinery in the world equal to that
found in the steel works of America.
That is because American steel has had
10 pay high wages and yet fight British
steel
In those industries which are highly
protected against foreign competition,
such as the cotton and wooden trades,
there is not the same wide awakeness.
Protection enables the highswages to
be paid. Cotton and wooden manufac-
turers have the American trade to
themselves, and, compared with the
steel trade, there has been nothing like
the same thirst for labor-saving ma
chinery
In England our technical schools do
something toward the development of
handicraftsmen. In America the
handicraftsman holds a minor position.
You can get a good pair of boots in
America but to have them neatly re-
paired is almost more than money will
procure. 1t is cheaper to buy new
pair. Handicraftsmen are to dear a
luxury. The manufactured article is
the tendency. Hardly anybody above
the poorer classes wears ready-madc
clothes in England. Middle-class folk
wear them in America. There are all
sorts of sizes in America to suit all
figures. Thus the tailoring craftsman
is largely done away with.
Art in manufactured goods hardly ex-
lists. Patterns and styles are appro-
priated from abroad, altered, even i'm
proved, to suit the American fancy,
and then put out as purely American
productions In New York l was struck
with the excellent silverwork every
where. Inquiry, however, revealed that
nearly all the workmen were imported,
When l pressed my inquiry further, as
to whether the rising generation would
not produce silversmiths. [ was told
No" because the boys won't learn
craft smanship / saw charming pot
terry made at Trenton, in New Jersey
, But the makers were from Stafford
shire. What the visitor to the English
pottery district notices is that every
! pottery town has it's art school. Tren-
ton has no art school 1t is not that
! Americans lack the taste to produce
fine work. It is because manufacturers
, prefer to take English patterns and
, produce articles by machinery in enor-
> nous quantities. Quantity at cut
! price is the ideal
There is no lack of mental material
for excellence in America. The mis-
, chief is that, a present, everything is
l !
+ biggest amount for the smallest money
Accordingly, while American goods are
cheap, there is too often a crudeness a
, lack of finish. that does not mark the
. European article, which is produced
more slowly.
, The American money-maker does not
read books. He has only time to glance
at newspapers. observation-disclosures is
not the distinguishing quality of Amer
:, lean newspapers Our own British
newspaper, like the British man, is
prone to depreciate everything in oul
own country. The American neWspa-
per, like the American man, is perpet-
ualiy Growing and pluming. This rev.
ery of optimism, which just now is
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