The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-17
THE AME lcaH INVASION"


the week is that which Mr.. William i.
Stead. editor OF the London Review Of
Reviews. contributes TO Golfers Weekly
Ills subject is the American trade In
vasion. OF which Mr.. Stead takes the
1ncst amiable and optimistic view. He
declares that up 10 this time the in
weston, has been British blessing, and
he believes that it will continue so to
be First OF all he points out that Eng
land Is largely dependent upon the
United States for its food supply, and
says that our cheap bread stpffs have
been an indisputablc bcncfaction to the
British. 'Imagtne for instance says
he, 'if come great Spectator were able
10 effect such a corner in American food
stuffs as actually to forbid the importa-
ton of sinsle-carcass, or a single cargo
OF grain Where should we be? We
should be face to faco with famine, and
tho whole forty million OF US would be
alternately filing the air with cXecra-
items against the Speculation, who had
cut off our supply of food, or implorinS
him for the love of God TO relax his
ut by drawing supplies from the Ancri-
can store" He does not deny that such
a condition would help the English
GARNER but that for the country at large
81 would be a disaster.
Coming next to tho question OF raw
cotton factories arc largely dependent
cotton factories arc largely dependent
upon tho United States for tho material
wi;l, which TO keep their mills going
~, is not yet forty years he says in
his connection. ''sinco Lancashire was
reduced 10 the verge of starvation by the
outbreak of Tho Civil Wan in America,
which deprived it of the raw material
OF its staple industry. Then We had
actual experience of a stoppaGc of Amer
lean supplies. an experience which no
one who lived through The Lancashire
cotton famin. wishes 10 repeat
Thus effcctually disposng Of this phase
OF the Invasion" he Gomez to speak of
American manufactured articles which
have found a large sale in England and
here again he contends that the 'inva-
SION has been a blessing rather than a
curse lie speaks of the ingenious in
MENTIONS OF the Americans, the type
writer. the sewing machine the type
setting machine, the automobile, the pho
nograph, the telephone, and especially
the numerous electric appliances which
have lcssened the burdens OF life in Eng
land and increased the convenience.
Moreover, he speaks OF the ingenious
tools and labor-savins machines thai
Americans have sent 10 England which
have greatly aided the EnSishmen in
their industrial cnerprsest lie declares
that the Englishmen are using all these
things TO their profit, that they are en-
qployinG American machinery to heir
own advancement, that they are learning
American ways, and that they are going
10 beat the Americans at their own
game.
Indeed, he believes many of the most
cnterprising Americans arc going TO
move TO England and probably employ
their money and their talents and their
American machinery in that field he
declares. further. that this thing has
already begun, and by way Of illustra-
ton he points TO the Westinghouse Com
pany's works, near Manchester, directed
by American managers and managed on
American principles: to the imposing Of
flee building of n large American Life
Insurance Company, in London, with an
.American-born manager, who is now
more British than The Brtisher::" to
American soda-wate" fountains now being
manufactured III the city Of London, and
so on. lie thinks that before long there
Will be in the city OF London American
hotels. and American department stores
and American trolley lines and all the
rest John Bull" says he in conclu-
sion, VIII have to smarter UP, there
will be a difficult quarter of an hour for
the old gentleman. but tho result viii
probably astonisl none SO much as those
Americans who have been calmly selling
the lions skin before The lion was
dead
We hope that Mr.. Stead is right. Il
would not be good policy FOR Americans
TO drive their English customers out Of
business. 1t IS TO our interest that Eng
land should prosper, Tor the more she
prospers the moro she will be able TO
buy OF. us. and In spite of all that she
may Go for herself il the way of supply
ing home demands. there will continue
10 be an increasing demand for Ameri-
,an products, especially food stuffs, cot
ton and perhaps coal and iron and other
minerals. in proportion as England pros
pers. Ne must not forget that trade
means barter. and that if We increase
>ur trade With the foreigners. we must
uy from them rs wei as sell TO them
other words We must help them to be
prosperous. If We would share in their
prosperity.
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GOOD CITIZEN.
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