The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-06-04

patriotic songs and Mr.. Chamberlain's
speeches rushed, like motor cars. along
the highways Of my brain.
Your coloniesTi said Mr. Carnegie. |
let us see" land the pencil worked |
ruthlessly forward Australasia, 5,000,- /
600; Canada, 100000; South Africa
(whites), 100000; a total of 12,0OO,-
600; add to your home population, and
you have only 100000 whites against
our 78,000,000.'
sBut we are only beginning"
mo, 1t Is we who are beginning. We
have plenty of territory entirely unex-
pIored where there win some day be a
great population. Your colonies are
not increasing. Australia seems full
it is a mere rind round an empty in
terror. South Africa is not white
mans country, and your governments
policy Of encouraging emigration there,
especially Of women, Is almost crime.
AS for Canada, compare her growth in
the nineteenth century with that Of the
United States. Her only chance Of
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 Athensr
Mr. Carnegie's face changed. The
aleis. 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 be said more softly. AS
the land Of the spirit, the land Of
Shakespeare ana Milton, we all dc
homage to you. There your supremacy
viii always remain when we come
here we feel In this gentle, quiet at
mosphere' and he waved his hand tc
the window through which came the
muffled drone Of the London omnibus,
Eve feel that 1t is this, and not Ameri-
ca, that has produced our Shakespeare,
our common king
Eyes" he went on. and the furnace
of the great ironmaster's eye seemed
to burn more softly as 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 viii be happier
If You acknowledge It. Look at our
home market-a market of d 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.
| 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"
sBut we are waking up" l muir.
INJURED and thought of Mr.. Chamber
lain.
P but how can you compete with u.s.
The very size of our great industries
gives us an immense advantage. BY
Standardization we can supply the de-
mands Of the world at price you can
not think Of We produce GOO locomo-
tives a week more than you ia 1864
the highest point Of that industry In
England Yet we want moreover for
our own country BY producing SO
many we can reduce the price and sup
ply the world with our overflow
There was a pause In the storm OF
words. Mr.. Carnegie was called away
by one Of his numerous visitors-for
the anterooms Of this millionaire
statesman are thronged as the ante
rooms Of a Napoleon and was able
to rise to the surface for air.
When he returned he introduced me
to his visitor
''This is the man." he said, who
when Russia wanted steel plates, went
TO Russia for me and secured from
under the eyes Of your manufacturers
more orders than ! could execute
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