The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-10-31

ignorant, but until recently we have been
self-centered and indifferent.
Take China with its 10000 900 people"
Maj. Carson went on 10 say. What do
we know about it commercially? Around
the accessible edges are some settlements
Of Europeahs. The interior OF the coun-
try is a sealed book 10 our manufacturers
and merchants. A cotton spinner, having
more goods than no can sell. suddenly
thinks Of China He hurries of his sur
plus 20 Pekin. Shanghai, Canton, or
Hongkong. But the goods were not made
for the Chinese market. The man who
wants dots IN his shirt won't buy stripes.
II a woman goes downtown for a green
handkerchief. she will not purchase a yell
! low one. But. we say 10 the Chinese
merchant. the cotton prints you like went
out OF fashion forty years ago.
" No matter the merchant complacent-
! ~ replies. we want what we want. and
not something else.
Your taste we exclaim. in the tone
Of a teacher of color values, harmony,
j and esthetics is barbarous.
" Possibly the merchant smilingly an
swers; and still we have the cash IN
hand TO crafty It.
England OutSeHs Us.
why. do you know" Mai. Carson asked
with energy and patriotic disgust, that
although we grow 70 per cent of the
worlds cotton supply England annually
| sells $70.oO0,o00 OF cotton goods and yarns
to China. while our sales amount to only
! $1,000 600? England comes here in it's
own ships. hRuls our raw cotton across
the Atlantic, turns it into fabrics at
Manchester. ana then beats US to death
IN the Chinese markets
| And II Is so everywhere. England sells
/ 4I5,O0o,O00 Of cotton manufactures a year.
Our sales aggregate but S40,OO0,00O Eng
/ land sells more cotton goods 10 Argen-
/ tina than we sell in the whole Of South
| America. 1t Is the same in Cuba, which
we liberated; IN the Philippines. which
we benevolently assimilated. and in
Mexico, which is our next-door neigh
/ Dor / sent a man to Manchester that
/ he might learn British conditions and
methods. A firm there doubled lis salary.
and he stayed
England makes what the African and
the Asiatic wants II doesn't try 10
thrust its ideas on q strange country
and to be educational and artistic. In
stead, II gets the money Of the African
and the Asiatic that its mills may be
kept going and that its people may have
work. Englishmen are able manufac-
turers, successful statesmen. and shrewd
| buyers. Australia and India show no
/ trade favors to the mother country. but
p2Tonize the best and the cheapest mar
ket. regardless OF blood and geography.
Canada n Good Customer.
I'VE kick at Canada Mai. Carson
said; "and there IS no propaganda by
which we are seeking TO make It our
customer, but Canada each year buys
more of our manufactured goods-ma-
chinery and merchandise-than does
South America; a vital fact that our
people should fully understand and
! sensibly reflect upon. Reverting 10 cot
ton. ! should like you to print the state
ment that the United States buys more
prints and yarns from England than II
in turn sells all over the world. It IS
time for us to get awake Production In
certain things has passed our capacity
around and ahead. And we must be
! courteous. intelligent and morbidlv
! honest
] For instance, an electrical machine IS
made. The machine is all right in every
respect. Some day q workman discovers
that a simple little device will improve
/ it, The device is adopted In the factory.
Then along comes an order from abroad.
A machine IS sent, drawn from the stock
"a machine without the device. ANY
! thing the factory owners think, is good
enough for the foreign trade. But II
/ is not Presently the man who bought
the machine learns the truth and calls
the factory a fraud. England does not