The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-01-02
fUpEs ABROAD.


Hooked for American goods in the
Tops, and often found them. In Lon
sdon we saw an American shoe store,
and store devoted to the sale of Amer
lean canned goods. American cheese is
largely sold here, but Canadian cheese
also goes under that name. The most
surprising thing was to find Heintz
pickles in the shop windows, in cOmpeti-
ton with the Crosse & Blackwell goods
of worldwide reputation. American
buyers of these goods have to pay duty,
but in Great Britain they are sold at
such prices that should think it would
be difficult for the Pittsburgh, Pa,
pickles to compete with them. But
evidently they do and in other lines
American competition is severely felt.
A young American journalist residing
in London, who has had ample oppor-
tunity for observation, has written
very clever book entitled ''The Ameri-
can Invaders. He describes the aver
age Londoner, as he
rises in the morning from his New Eng
land sheets, he shaves with Williams
soap and Yankee safety razor, pulls
on his Boston boots over his socks from
North Carolina, fastens his Connect
cut braces. slips his Waltham or Water
bury watch in his pocket, and sits down
to breakfast. AT the same time he
reads his morning paper, printed by
American machines on American paper
with American ink, and, possibly, edit
ed by a smart journalist from New
York city. He rushes out, catches the
electric tram New York; to Shepherds
Bush, where he gets in Yankee eleva-
tor to take him on the American fitted
electric railway to the city. At his
office he sits on a Nebraskan swivel
chair, before a Michigan roll-top desk,
and writes his letters on a Syracuse
typewriter
And here we have the English view
of it, in the following verses published
in the London Daily Chronicle under
the caption of 'Americanized:
I love my transatlantic brother well,
] hate his foes Internally;
With conscious pride feel my bosom swell
When he greeus me fraternaliy.
L tl 1nlSHt IL HOT, SUIllotllHeS dSh, DcldlI
That his loved presence might begin to pail
His kodak on my privacy intrudes,
His beef fills to safety,
solitudes,
His heiresSes, Society,
IT'S his-one drop of sweet in bitter cup
lis his alarum wakes my servants up.
His oil my lamp, his corn my belly fills,
lie builds me my machinery,
And boards that tell the praises of his pills
AdOrn my native scenery!
While in the Tube-so Yankefied we are
l ride perforce in his triumphal car.
lie wins our races, teaches us to ride
IT'S true, I'm very sure it is
Our markets find all stocks are dull beside
His versatile securities;
And near at hand, hear, the period is
When all our ships and shipyards shall be
his.
lie fills my cosmos, and can but see,
AS every Tom and Jerry can,
Soon l, my kin, race, cline and land may be
Essentially American,
And may own, of comfort quite bereft,
That there is nothing really English left.
Apparently the shoe pinches hardest
in the footwear trade. American shoes
are sold in England at lower prices
chan they can be manufactured in that
country, and an important British in
dustry is thus seriously threatened. !
The English manufacturers are appar-
emily combining their attempts to stem
this commercial invasion by writing
pathetic letters to the papers, in which |
they declare there will be empty chairs
by the freside if the English persist in
buying American shoes. According to |
some of these letters, the article i'm
ported from the United States consti-
tutes danger to life and health, being
said to be made of the cheapest possible |
leather, which is quite inadequate to |
keep dry the feet of nation which !
does not wear rubbers. This sort of
thing appearing frequently in the Lon
don dailies has elected an answer, in
the Daily Chronicle, from an American |
manufacturer, who categorically denies
the use of poor leather, and points out
that the importation of American rub
bers far exceeds importation of shoes, !
c'rO"oAy PAONluS GildU CNCu GuS ll6u- |
made shoes require overshoes to help
them keep out the wet.
The Rockland, Mass, Standard says
that good many shoes from that vi
entity find their way to London. Geo.
E. Keith of Campello has store there
for the sale of his goods exclusively.
We read in the English papers partic
ulars of contract by single firm for
one million of the Ingersoll watches,
and of the first move of the American
Tobacco Company to gain control of
the tobacco trade of Great Britain.
This was the purchase of large tobac-
90 business in Liverpool. 1t was a
great surprise to find the cigarette
habit SO prevalent in King Edwards
domain. The pipe used to be the Brit
isher's solace, and comparatively few
cigars were smoked, while the reverse
was true of this country. Now about
every one you meet, old or young, in
England and Scotland, has cigarette;
land judging from their persistence in
smoking under the most adverse cir
cumstances they may well be classed