Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-17

or from the English into any other
language free of charge for it's mem
bers. 1t also gives lists of wholesale
dealers, importers and agents in any
one line for five countries to each mem
ber annually, and investigates ten for
eign firms free of charge for each
member during each year.
1t will be seen from this that the as
ISOLATION is alive to the Importance OF
building up the export trade in manu-
factures, and to the necessity OF united
action in the effort to do so. The serV-
ices of the association in this direction
are used far beyond the amount of free
service rendered, the annual reports
showing thousands of dollars turned in
from the nominal fees charged for eX-
ira services. One of the amusing
things about the nicely with which the
manufacturer has to handle his Span
ish or Portuguese correspondent is the
fact that the American is scarcely able
TO write a letter that can be translat-
ed to suit him. The English is such a
direct language that a thought literal
ly translated from 1t into the Spanish
will often give offense to the punct1ll-
Gus Castilan, so that it has become ad-
visable for the exporter who seeks
trade relations with Spaniards to have
his letters translated by some one
whose IdllNe lOnSuC ~ GPe1AAAoAA ASN1AASA
than by some person who mas simply
studied the language.
Could the statesmen of bygone
generation arise from their graves
they would surely thing miracle had
been wrought. Before the Civil War
it was declared that America was first
of all an agricultural nation and would
always remain so. But their sons have
lived to see the products of the farm
yield second place to the products OF
the factory, and today the nation
which was to their minds destined to be
the agricultural nation of the world
has manufactures aggregating in value
fifteen billion dollars a year, and ag-
ricultural products whose total Value
is eight billion. More than one-half of
the entire product of the combined
energy of our S0,000,000 people is rep
resented in the products of the fac-
tories of the country 1t is said that
the total productive capacity of the
people of the United States is valued at
S26. 900 900, 900 a year, or 1906 per capita
There are 100000 wage earners en-
gagged in manufacturing They con-
vert nine billion dollars worth of raw
and partly raw material into fifteen
billion dollars worth of finished
product. 1t will be seen from this
that their gross earning capacity is
upward of $1,000 year:
One is hardly prepared for the state
ment that in point of value of output
the slaughtering and packing industry
IS the biggest in the United States, nor
for the Information that there are
more men engaged in lumber and wood
working than in any other manutac-
turing Industry in the country, 4O4,OOO
of them being so engaged. The manu-
facture of things to eat and things TO
wear is about one-third of all the
manufacturing being carried on in the
United States. And the iron and steel
Industry, and the result is just about
one-half of the total manufacturing
output. ~
head of the manufacturing nations or
the world. It is over three billion dol
lars ahead of England, both in capital
and in product. And England is as
much ahead of Germany as 1t is be-
hind America. There has never been
any official census of industries in any
European country such as the united
states had every ten years up to 1900
and every five years since then Yet
the statistics have been closely gath
cred, and they show that the National
Manufacturers association represents
as great an output of commodities as