The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-04
LAMENT OF A BRITISHER
HOW AME RIcAN INVENTIONS ARE
CAPTURING FOREIGN MARKETS.
Striking Lament Of a British Writer
Over the Crowdlng Out Of English
by American Manufacturers in All
the Leading Lines of Goods.

VIC LeaulHg Lines OF GO"uS"
To understand the prevailing be
lief among the Britishers that they
must do something to prevent Ameri'
can manufacturers from crowding their
own out of their home markets one
has only to read a little book that
has of late had a great popular sale
over there. 1t is entitled THE Ameri-
can Invaders" A reprint Of it Is Row
circulating in this country
Men sometimes speak," says this
English author, las though the dra-
matte coup of Morgan when he ac-
CURED control Of one of our great ship
ping lines, or of Schwab' who out
bids our steel-makers, or Of Philade-
phia bridge builders who capture the
orders for our biggest viaducts COM
prise this invasion. They do not. Such
items are merely the sensational in
c1dents in vast campaign The real
invasion goes on increasingly and with
| out noise or show in five hundred in
dustries at once. From shaving soap
to electric motors, and from shirt
waists to telephones, the American is
clearing the field.
Walk down the main thoroughfares
in any Of our great cities-London or
| Glasgow or Liverpool. Take, for in
stance, Holborn viaduct, and see there
| the great blocks of Office buildings
mainly given over to the London repre-
sentatives of American manufacturers.
Notice the candy stores, the ice-cream-
soda fountains, the American shoe
stores, in our streets.
Bryant & May, the once great Eng
lish match firm, which has no competi-
tors and paid dividends of 20 percent
per annum, were driven out of the field
+ by the American Match Trust. Hav-
ing shown Bryant & May that they
could take their market away from
them by selling better matches at
cheaper prices, the trust offered to
take over their factories and guarantee
them interest at "A percent on their
agreed value. The entire English
match indr..ssttry and t-ade passed on
this basis into American hands.
"The most serious aspect of the
American Invasion" says the author,
lis that nearly every new industry
created in England for Is years past
is under American control. What are
the chief new features in London life?
They are take it, the telephone, the
portable camera, the photograph, the
electric street ttf, the auts,iss, csas.s to
typewriter, passenger eie.atQrs In
hovseg ard the multiplication of ma
chine tools. In every one Of these
save the petroleum. automobile, the
American maker is supreme; in sever
al he is the ;nonopolist. These new
industries, be it noted, are enormously
profitable; the men they employ are
highly paid mechanics and prices rule
high.
Take the typewriter Machines are
brought to England from New York
and Boston to the average value OF
considerably over $4,000 a week. The
cost Of the raw material used in the
typewriter is comparatively trivial. and
the greater part of this outlay goes to
high wages for skilled labor. Time af-
ter time English firms have endeay-
ored to acquire this trade, but in vain.
At the present moment the only seri-
: :, IS competitor with the American ma
otS,> e for Office use is Canadian type,
srrtta the Empire"
WIZ, the English government es-
ssyaIis,joaA a national telephone service
81 narf m the general postoffice de-
,,sr4y,,ant Il tried to get its telephone
ne, s,.,,,,,o,,yts, 4, ON English makers. But
10 English asnM was ready to supply
hem, and the b. : order Went 10 the
Western Elec6dc & nnpany oi Chlcago.
Many million pourA s'erline are 10
De spent within the ~ A' lew years ny
England on teiephoLnh LIS. uinen'0'
md English makers seem " DC eneire-
y out of it.
In Parliament at the la. VI SESSION
bills were presented covering the con-
;truction of electric railroads l. pat Will
cost $120,000,000, and here aga n inc
Americana constructors are rakiN tne
bulk of the business. The author says
hat abou5 one-half of the motors on
he stress cars in Great BrltdR al .
American-made! AFT the new LGs9doll |
roads are equipped from
American shops.
In thingg domestic Americas has also
carried England by storm. From sew
ns machines to carpet sweepers thee
English borne is filled with things
made in America. Three out of every
our EngTfsh women wear America2i
shirt waists.
Turning to printing the writer says:
.Eere thu American makers are aba