Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-26
NO FEAR TO BE FELT OF FOREIGN GOODS IN
 MONTHS AFTER WAR
Robert Pinot, of Paris, States the United States Should Feel no Fear of Being the Dumping Ground for Europe.

and Europe will not cease with the
 war, that the United States will not for several years have to fear Euro pean competition in manufactured pro- duets, is the opinion expressed here
 by Robert Pinot general secretary of the Comite des Forges de France
 This organization is the official repre- sentative Of the Cruesot works and all of the other iron and steel manufactur- CTS of France and the medium through
 which the French government is now
 securing large quantities of war mu-
 nitions for the use of the French and Russian armies.
 In an interview Mir Pinot says: Tt is unfortunately true that we must look to the United States for sev eral yearsto supply us with money or credits ana with raw and manufactur-
 ed materials. I say this is unfortu- | nately true because ! realize that we | will be working for the next twenty years to pay what we owe Not be- | fore that time can we begin to put any profits in our own pockets The fear that SO soon as the war is ended the manufacturers now busy making arms and cannon and shells will convert their factories into the making of products Go compete with yours, is ungrounded
 While we French iron and steel men have been doing surprising work | in our munitions. while we are turn ing out more than the English factor ies. while our people have shown a marvellous example of improvision, while we have done all this with our l best plants and our mines in the hands Of the Germans. We are not superhu- man. We cannot turn around so soon as the war is over and begin flooding your home markets, because of our cheaper labor, or compete with you in your foreign markets. How can we? We will first have the enormous task of rebuilding our old steel plants of TecOnverting our automobile. button. cloth printing and railroad shops, all now busy making munitions, back to their old uses. We will have to try to repair the vast material destruction that has come with the war Then we will have to do our best to satisfy our own home markets. To do these ! things we will have Co continue to buy of you. as we are now doing for war supplies
 What chance is there for the Am erican to do a steady business with us lCng after the war is over to follow up and establish himself in the busi- ness now begun2 l am not a prophet, and the war is not yet over But here | is a fact to be considered by the Am. erican manufacturer So far as con- l cerns France, We iron and steel men | had begun to do a surprising business i in the few years before the war We
 were not only filling the demands made in this line on the home market.
 but we were beginning to go into the | foreign trade France had almost | ceased to be an agricultural nation. I believe. too, that our products were the most perfectly made in the world ! They were made to stand up to wear l won't say that We were right in manufacturing this way, that the Am
 erican method is not the better; but our customers demanded long wearing articles, and we satisfied their de- mands An American locomotive is built to last seven years, whereas the railroads we supply want them tO last
 thirty years. This is a condition the American must meet in future compe- tition with us
 In connection with the reconstruc-
 tion of the French factories destroyed
 in the North of France, referred to by
 Mir Pinot current report indicates
 increasing imports of cotton from the
 United States and shows that France
 is now using more American cotton
 than ever before the war The totals
 for the first eight months of this year
 Of such imports were six million met
 ric quintals of 100 kilos each. Before
 the war France had 7.2O0. 900 cotton
 spindles and 10000 looms. Al the end of 1914 but 25 per cent, or 1S00,000
 were in opration, due to the German
 Invasion of the NOsges and Lille dis
 tricts. Now 40 per cent, or 100000 tspindles are in operation with 4,200,-
 900 still idle
 There is a prospect for large orders
 of American railway supplies being
 placed in France. The Northern and Eastern railways suffered severely by the German invasion and the other
 four large railway systems are badly
 in need of new material of all kinds While the latter four railways have
 during the present year, earned over
 TO per cent of their normal receipts
 both for freights and passengers, they delayed placing orders for new mater 5 ial until this fall. So far American
 car firms have taken orders for 10000 freight cars. March delivery. Other } orders amounting to more than twenty , million dollars were being placed by
 the French roads when the BalkaI situation interferred with available Q ocean freight and now these oTder
 are either being delayed or are beinl
 placed in England. The Southern
 railway ordered 1000 ears from Bel
 giau firm newly established in Spain