The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02

pended with British firms, which shows that the great manufacturers do not propose to let all of their business re- cede from them.
 I look upon this invasion as one or the greatest blessings that could nave befallen this country. It is huge eau cational process, which cannot lali lo
 benefit both the United states ana Great Britain, for while it has unooupt- edIy opened many markets to Amerlcan houses it has also opened the eyes or the insular Englishman to the fact that he was gradually losing his once hfm grip on the commerce of the World, ana that, sooner or later he would contrlp- ute to the unmaking of his country.
 A similar thing happened ten years ago. when there was much cry about German invasion" though this was on a smaller scale than the present one. At that time the German manufa cturer practically had the hest of the British market to himself, and the Words
 made in Germany" were seen at every hand Everything seems to have been made in Germany ten years ago, but u had it's effect in a short time and soon the obnoxious mark became less and less apparent until now it is hardly seen at all; the reason being that Eng fish makers found themselves unWit-
 tingly making the same things that their German competitors had been sell ing under their very noses. l have no doubt that the necessity for initiating the hated German was bitter pill to swallow, but it was done, nevertheless. And so it will be with all of those Amer ican goods which are not necessities and which are not worth bringing here. Gradually the Englishman will accom- modate himself to the new order Of things and do business on rational lines, and then all of the little men who have come over here to swallow in the gold of the stupid Englishman-misled by exaggerated reports-will find that they would have done much better by stay ing at home. Already the market here is flooded with cheap trash, which can not fail to reflect discred tably upon American enterprise in general, It those who have good things to offer could be separated from the humbugs 1t would be we'll for both countries.
 The whole thing summed up in few words mean that those great American business houses with endless capital at their disposal will find a good field for their activities here. The strong, re- sourceful men of commerce like Nor gan and Yerkes and Westinghouse and Duke will add to their already enor- nous wealth and will at the same time benefit the British empire by the force of their example more than words can tell. The smaller business men will have to compete with an awakened En- glishman on his own ground in a coun- try which is after all intensely patriot ic and immeasurably clannish.
 As for the young man with brains there is plenty of room for him here as there is anywhere else in the world. Young men with brains succeed in Hol- land and Spain. l believe If young man of this description were to go to Timbuctoo he would become rich in time; so that there is nothing new in the discovery that England is good country for a smart young man to go to. Sir Alfred Jones, one of the clever est business men I have ever met, a man who rose from nothing to the po- siton of head of one of the greatest shipping firms in the world, told ne the other day that the whole world, land and water, is strewn with opportuni- ties simply yearning for bright people to pick them up and get rich upon; which is further testimony to the tru- ism that no single country has the monopoly of opportunity.
 Lord Salisbury has written one of his cryptic letters to a lady who has praised his government. He states: ''We need such encouragement--for England is, I believe, the only country in which, during great war, eminent men write and speak publicly as if they belonged to the enemy" The implica- tion has been taken generally to refer to the pro- Boers who have been par ticularly noisy and demonstrative of late. but have reason to believe that the prime minister meant the shot to go straight to the office of the Times, which has of late been unsparing in it's criticism of the Lord Salisbury cab inet. As the government has failed so in keeping in touch wit the nation the duty of leading the country has not unnaturally devolved upon the chief newspaper, the Times, which has recently become more and more dog matic and dictatorial. The Times Fas always been more or less autocratic but never in the history of this remarkable has it wie'ded unbounded in- f1uence and forced it's views upon the public mind as at present. What the Times says to-day the other newspapers will say tomorrow and the public the next day. It ashes about in unre- fury at the government though it is ostensibly a government or gan-and people in the clubs read it and say; ''Is it not wond darful! The Times is going for them again"
 The strange part of it is that this famed journalistic giant circulates in an extremely limited sphere and does not print above E0oO0 paers day yet it absolutely leads the country both in political and economic questins. The Times never sends a reporter to inter view any one. It is not ob'ieed to seek the opinions of the great men of the nations, but rather they seek the col ulr1HS OI lNS lll1lpS lIIoLcettl lp oil bi'Nii views If great lawyer has a grievance he writes letter to the leading newspa per, and the next day it is commented upon by nine-tenths of the other papers of the land, I know that the post bag of the Times is lit- erally crowded day after day with