The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-06-19
HE BILLINGS
patriotic ..sgs and Mr.. chamberlain's

patriotic e.rgs and Mr.. Chamberlain'e
speeches rushed. like motor cars. along
the highways Of my brain.
''Your c~oloniesy" said Mr.. Carnegie.
g'Letru us see"-and the pencil worked
ruthlessly Observation-Disclosures 5000
600; Canada, 5,50O.000; South Africa
(whites), 1.5O0.OOO; a total Of 12.OO0,-
600; add to your home population. and
slr 7S.OOO,OOO!"
'.But we are only beginning"
mo, it is we who are beginning. We
have plenty Of territory entirely n
plored where there will some day be a
great population. Your colonies are
not increasing. Australia seems fu.l:l
it is a mere rind round an empty i'll
terror. South Africa Is not q white
mans country. and your governments
policy Of encouraging emigration there.
especially Of women. is almost IL crime.
As for Canada. compare her growth in
the nineteenth century with that of the
United States. Her only chance Of q
future is to throw in her lot with the
Americans"
felt crushed by this tyranny OF
numbers.
but you are only dealing with num-
bers. Numbers are not everything.
Think Of Florence and Athens!
Mr.. Carnegie's face changed. The
alert, striving glance vanished. and
| there crept over him a softer, sadder
look, with a distant suggestion OF
Thomas Carlyle, the sort of man that
| Carlyle might have become If he had
| been one Of his own captains Of indus
try.
"Ah, yes" he said more softly. Al
the land Of the spirit. the land Of
! Shakespeare and Milton, we all do
homage to you. There your supremacy
will always remain. When we come
here we feel in this gentle, quiet at
m~osphere," and he waved his hand to
the window through which came the
mufled drone Of the London omnibus,
I'VE feel that it is this, and not Ameri-
ca. that has produced our Shakespeare.
our common king. ~
"Yes," he went on, and the furnace
Of the great ironmaster's eye seemed
to burn more softly al he brOoded over
his great passion; ''our Shakespeare,
who has been more to me than my
Bible.
"But'-and then the fierce glow
came back-'you cannot compete with
us in industry and you will be happier
IL you acknowledge. 1t. Look at our
home market-a market Of a continent!
Your colonies put on tariffs against
you and have virtually no manufac-
lures themselves. You led the world
once. but now we have taken your
place" a
L gasped, but by humming Rule,
Britannia" softly to myself was able
to endure.
"Look at the facts. We produce al
ready more steel than the whole world
put together. We produce more cot
ton goods than you-once the greatest
cotton producers Of the world. Our
manufactures are already three times
as valuable as yours and our exports
are greater"
"But we are waking up" l muir
INJURED and thought of Mr.. Chamber
lain. . f
"But how can you compete with us
The very size of our great industries
gives us an immense advantage. BY
standardization we can supply the de
mands of the world at a price you can
not think of. We produce 600 locomo
tives a week-more than you in 1864
the highest point Of that industry IL
England. Yet we want moreover fol
our own country. By producing 81
many we can reduce the price and sup
ply the world with our overflow
There was a pause in the storm O
!. words. Mr.. Carnegie was called ava!
by one Of his numerous visitors-fo
anterooms of this millionaire
!, statesman are thronged as the ante
rooms of a Napoleon-and l was abb
to rise to the surface for air.
; When he returned he introduced m
to LIS visitor.
r 'sThis is the man, he said, "whc
when Russia wanted steel plates, wen
to Russia for me and secured fron
under the eyes Of your manufacturer
more orders than l could execute
: When l send q dog for a bone | Xix
9 him to fetch it-and he fetched it all"
i He is prouder of his men than 0
r himself. and they are prouder of hir
. than he is of them.
> That is even yet not every word o
the interview, but it is pretty nearl
A all of it and it is enough to show VIII,
n the article has set all London talking.
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