The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-27
FINISHED IN ENGLAND.
Imported American Goods Sold There
 as British.

as BfitlSn.
 Thoroughly characteristic of present day British temper is the caption that "The Pal Mall Gazette put few days ago to New York cable dispatch an- nouncing the shipment of a cargo of American steel rails to Dalny. "Bri- tain Advances the Money-America Supplies the Goods"
 There now exists in England pop ular recrudescence of insularity that may be patriotism or may be politics, Far be it from the stranger to judge, The notable fact is that from every other show window stares out the le- gend, Made in Great Britain" "Our Goods Are All British Made" or other intimation to the same effect The le- gend does not always tell the truth, and alongside of it subsists-ycs, fourishes-the American shop.
 That the cry of MT. Chamberlain and his followers has convincingly penetrated many British hearts is, however, evidenced by the fact that or so I am told-an increasingly large percentage of foreign goods is now be- ing imported unmarked with name of manufacturers or place of origin. The inference is obvious. Telling, too, is the other admitted fact that partially prepared material is constantly grow ing in importation to be finished in British workshops and that there is an unprecedented demand on the part of British manufacturers to purchase American or other foreign patent rights, or the privilege to manufacture under them on royalty.
 To my mind this is the most signif1- cant feature distinguishing the British commercial world of to-day, and it is full of meaning, which the world will do well to appreciate. In the course of a months visit to the principal cit ies of Great Britain do not think that in one instance, where l have talked T politics with a British business man, the opinion has not been expressed that in a comparatively short time say within five years-the United Kingdom will surely have adopted Mir. Chamberlain's tariff proposals, and, coupled with enthusiastic devotion to the principle, is a pronounced tenden- cy to gloat-no other word will ex- press tito gloat over the brilliant fu- lure that Britain's manufacturers will then enjoy when American electrical devices, American machinery, Ameri- can hardware, American boots and shoes, American what-not will be barred by a takiff wall and no longer be able to compete with the long suf- fering British manufacturer.
 How far this would work out in ex- actly the way expected may be open to pertinent question, but certain it is that this is the temper to-day of the British manufacturer, and just as cer- tain it is that he is now engaged ir making his plans to manufacture ir England as large part as possible of the goods he has heretofore ob.
 ained more cheaply from the Unitet States.
 It should by no means be forgotten however, that certain American good' the British manufacturer can nevet supplant, nor that far more strenu ous tariff provisions in Germany, foI example, than are possible in England have not prevented a wholesome
 growth of American business in tha country, and, moreover, along man, of the same lines that have hithert
 been successful in free-trade England i-B. Olney Hough, in the American E,xporter.