The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02
ENGLISHMEN PROFIT.
WHAT THE AMERICAN INVASION
 MEANS TO GREAT BRITAIN.

Old Fogtos, Forced to Shake On Their
 Lethnrgy, Are Making Things Un-
 comfortable For the Yankee Trad
 CTS.
 There is a tendency on the part of most American newspaper editors and others to overestimate, and in many in- stances to exaggerate, the extent of the much discussed American commer- cal invasion" Judging from the tone that pervades the press of the United to believe that poor old John Bull is entirely done for and that nothing will revive the decrepit and hopelessly out classed old gentleman.
 I have seen papers which in the eX- ultation of victory have state positive 1y that but for the American manufac- turers the British people would be starving and in rags, and in others l have read amazing articles showing that any bright young man could come over here with no other capital than his brains and anass a fortune in a few months. I have been amused be- yond expression at the sympa .hetic re- ferences to the dear departed MT. Bull" and the humorous threats to turn the houses of parliament at Westmin- ster into a branch of the capto at Washington and Buckingham palace in to residence of an American governor.
 That there has been an American ''in- vasion' no one with eyes to see and ears to hear can deny, but it has it's limitations, and this is what far most of our people have not been able to un- derstand as clearly as should be. I may be pardoned the lttle egotistical statement that I think I was one of the first journalists to call the attention of the British public to the inroads which Americans were destined to make in this profitable field and that the fatal complacency with which this new in- cursion was viewed, if not checked in time, could have no other result than one of disaster to British commerce.
 For months the press of this country has rung it's notes of warning and pointed the way to improvement. For months the newspapers, finally followed by the politicians, have begged and inn plored the manufacturing classes, and ulluCl tuSlll l1lC u ddSl " bSoLii lHCiii- selves. No, the British phlegm is not to be moved; and naturally enough the American press took up the cry and showed that here was a land to be ex plotted, an old fashioned, energetic sluggish land, filled with money and ready to buy that which Is put before 1t in the most attractive way.
 Instantly came a scream of ''invad- ers'' of all sorts and conditions. The shoe manufacturer sent his agen over to see what could be done; the furni- ture maker shipped over an exceptional load of goods; the ironmaster tried his hand at the game, the wholesale grocer, the babies fod merchant, the type founders and so on down to the cheap patent medicine dealer, they allioined the modern crusade. Every piffling lit tie huckster who came over in sec ond class cabin with handful of shod- dy, worthless woods announced with q preliminary flourish that he was on his way to London to wrest the sovereigns away from the British public, and ev- erything in this nature was grist to the mill of the watchful journalist here who found it incumbent upon himself " EAdSSCid dtC +lllC iiiPOl toHOS ol CNCiy arrival no matter how lowly or unwor- thy, in order to make the most of his cry of warning.
 American tradesmen have been com ing to this country for years to do bus mess without being heralded as bidders for the country's trade, but during the past twelve months or so it has not been possible for a single one to come here without being hooted at, as a dan ger to the nation and power to be Frustrated The result is now apparent. The British manufacturer has at last bestirred himself
 You can to-day buy an English made boot made on an American designed last, a thing unheard of and un- dreamed of afew years ago. You are enabled to furnish your house with things made in this country by modern machinery and there is babies food that is made in England and is quite as good as that imported from abroad. Even the typefounders, the most anti quated and conservative people. in the country, have begun to make modern type with modern machinery. The mak- CTS of printing presses in Yorkshire, WflO, TUT llle pdoL luu yCdl D. ihNC ot dNA obstinately to the pattern of "Wharfe- dale" presses which were discarded in America fifty years ago are now mak- ing the famous two revolution press and are doing wonders with it and run ming their American competitors close race
 The sum and substance of it is that the factories of Great Britain are be- ing upside down in the wild scurry to reform and keep out that competition which little while ago, was looked upon as mere newspaper bogey Tske, for instance, the case of the Lon don county council electrification con tracts, which were given out few days ago. An English firm, which, only a year ago. could not possibly have un- dertaken the task has carried off the nrize in the face of bids from all over the world. These men have simply set their houses in order and must now be reckoned with seriously in other mark cts; for, now that they have enlarged their works. they will have to find con- tracts to keep them eployed Out of a gross total of 21,0500 GOO for orders for