The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-08

l quiCkening the national sense ot honor
 and in the development of an austere
 and resolute new republic that Will nc
 longer suffer this small influential body
 of mean rich people to dwarf the destl- nies of our race.
 Another who has had something raey and pointed to say upon this subject IS MT. Sidney Low, formerly editor of the | 'St. James Gazette" Asked the ques- tion How to wake up England! his reply was, Docs England need waking up?' and he at once went on to show by the typical instance which follows,
 that it isn't England but individual
 Engllshmen who need to be aroused
 from slumber. Jones, he said meets
 Brown at the club, and shakes his head
 mournfully over an expensive cigar,
 and says, '"The country's falling be-
 hind; it must wake up, sir-pull itself
 together--or the Germans and the Yan-
 kees will beat us" "Yes, my boy" re-
 spends MT. Brown that's what l say;
 the nations losing it's grit, it's energy
 it's -. Waiter, bring me small bot
 tie of Heidsieck. Two hours to dinner
 still, old man; must keep this internal
 fog off the chest. If this weather lasts
 think Mrs Brown and l will have to
 go over to Monte Carlo for fortnight.
 Why don't you come and bring Mrs. J.?
 Business? Oh, hang business; no good
 slaving your life out. Besides, there's s
 nothing doing just now. 1 don't know
 what we're coming to. The country's
 losing its markets, sir, and that's
 fact. England will have to --- and so
 ou." Always England, you see, added
 MT. Low; never the individual English
 man. And undoubtedly, he continued,
 to sit in an armchair and abuse an ab-
 straction is easier than for the actual
 concrete, flesh and blood Jones or
 Brown to go and compass his own pri- vate, and possibly rather painful, walk
 ing up" Yet salvation, economic or other, is personal matter. You cannot get it done for you en gros.
 There are others, however, who hold that, concurrently with the slow pro- cess of individual awakenings there is urgent need for both new energy and new policies in the great centers of
 trade and commerce. as well as in the general government. Sir Fortescue '. s ity in the engineering world, declares for the establishment without delay of ministry of commerce, in immediate touch with the foreign office, which shall ascertain and systematically for mulate all the information it can get about every market, old and new. British consuls, he says, must be like the German and American, not mere dummys to show off English style in various ways, but real commercial rep resentatiVes of a commercial nation Germany and America, taking up what England knew, had, he said, greatly improved upon that original stock, and now England must assimilate these for eign improvements and wake up from her mistaken belief that she knows eve rythtng better and can do everything better than any other nation on earth.
 Other influential men who have blown their bugle of advice for the waking up of commercial England are Sir John Leng, M. P, Sir Sydney Waterlow and Mir. E. H. Watts. The first of these as- sails the antiquated methods of the British patent office. Evidently the British policy has been, not to encour- age invention for the sake of trade, but to merely tolerate it for the fees 1t brings in. The British patent office urns over in profits five hundred thou sand dollars year. To get out pa -ent one must pay five hundred dollars, md then it only runs fourteen years, and the worst of it is, says Sir John Leng, that the patent office makes no search to find out whether or not the patent applied for has already been an- -icipated the result being that often one pays a large sum for a patent and n a little time finds it worthless, be- ,ause the same plea had been covered 1 oy a patent of anterior date. In l marked contrast to all this is the Amer | can way for there, as Sir John Leng | eminds his sleepy fellow countrymen, a | ,atent costs forty dollars instead of five runs for seventeen years in- tead of fourteen, and, better still, the | United States patent office never fails, Ehen new patent is applied for, to ind out whether or not the idea is real y new, and therefore never takes mon- y from aspiring inventors under false ,retences.
 What Sir Sydney Waterlow has to ay for the waking up of England pos esses peculiar interest owing to the act that this leading business man, his chairman of so many great metro- 'oiltan boards was once a London ap- rent1ce, and served his full seven years Il learning humble trade. Signifi- ant IS 1t, too that in. the opinion of his gentleman the chief obstruction to ommercial progress in England is the ttltude of the working classes and es- eclally the Tradeunionists. The at empt of the unions to continually de- rease the hours of labor and to limit he output by ''go-easy" principle of 'ork1ng, has already, he affirms. been ,