The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1916-12-06
Fargo, n. d.

and which might have been produced
at home. have been cut off by the war.
Finally, Industrial education, which
has been increasing slowly but stead
lily, has had its effect. Years OF labor
in the various industrial schools ap-
pear now to be bearing considerable
fruit.
The efforts of the government in the
past to build up new industries, have
disclosed the existence OF many diff
culties. Indian capital has been un-
enterprising and timid, skilled labor
has been lacking, and there has been
want of practical information re-
garding the commercial potentialities
of 1ndia's raw products. AS a result
there are only two manufacturing in
dustrieS Of any magnitude. They are
jute and cotton.
Outside these two businesses the
country has depended almost entirely
on foreign nations or other parts Of
the British empire for it's manufactur-
ed goods. Huge quantities of raw ma
terials Of almost every description
have been exported annually and MANY
of them have reappeared on the Indian
markets in the manufactured FORM
The same ships which have brought
in leather, oils, paper, iron and steel
goods, dyes and various other prod
uctS, have reloaded with the raw ma =
tcrials from which these very things
were made.
Industrial experts say that the Indian
consumer probably has bought his
goods as cheaply in most eases as he
could If they had been manufactured at
home. but that India has sacrificed the
financial gain and other advantages ac-
cruing to the country which has its
own factories. For one thing, the pro
ducer OF raw materials, having no al
Tentative market, has been forced to
accept the prices quoted him from
have been excessively low. 1t is held
that the establishment of q home mar
ket would protect him against such
has suffered in that the higher wages
which might have been coming to him
have been going into the pockets of
foreign artisans. Outside the actual
ing laid on the national stability de-
rived by the nation which has it's
working classes profitably employed.
The commission which has been ap-
lem Is made UP OF ten experts. headed
by Sir Thomas Holland president of
the Institution of Mining Engineers of
the United Kingdom. and widely known
as an industrial authority. The scope
of inquiry is so comprehensive that it
Will take several months to complete
the program laid out. In main the COM
mission will prepare itself to suggest
the most profitable lines of action With
the object of drawing out capital now
IDLE, of building up an artisan popula-
ton, OF carrying on the scientific and
technical researches required to test the
known raw materials and to design and
Improve processes of manufacture, of
distributing the information obtained
from researches and from the results
of experience in other countries, and
of developing the machinery for fnan-
cling industrial undertakings and mar
keting products.
prises which many feel may be en-
parked upon proftably in the near fu-
ture. Among these is the leather in
dustry. India exports great quantities
been sent to America and Germany to
be tanned, and it is said that there is
no reason why some of this work
should not be done at home. The other
leading possibilities named include the
expressing of oil from oil seeds, the
manufacture of paper pulp, the making
or glass. the production of dyes from
the plentiful raw materials at hand, and
the extraction of perfumes, essential
oils and drugs. There is. also room for
great expansion in the iron and steel
industries, which are still in their i'm
fancy as well as in the smelling of
aluminium. tin, zinc and copper ores.
One of the important questions to be
solved by the commission is that Of
WnaL form government ala TO new IN
dustries shall takes 1t is generally pre-
dicted that the government will be pre-
pared to render technical assistance,
possibly through the establishment Of
| central research laboratories, and will
also give financial aid in some form,
either direct or indirect. That govern
ment backing will be necessary, to Gre
ate confidence and draw out capital is
generally conceded by most students of
/ the problem.
| Among the methods of government
{ financial aid which have been suggest
/ ed, and which will be considered by the
| commission, are these: supply of ma
chinery and plant by the government
on the hire purchase system; guaran--
| teed dividends for a limited period, with
or without subsequent refund to the
! government of the expenditure incurred
1 in paying dividends at the guaranteed
rate; guaranteed purchase of products
I, for limited periods; concessions of land
special railway transport facilities and
rates; bounties and subsidies; pioneer
1 ing industries and handing them o ser
! to private companies and loan of serv-
I ices of government employs experts