Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — HE TOOK A FEW NOTES [ARTICLE]

HE TOOK A FEW NOTES

Te'ls British Manufacturers to Hustle, or Uncle Sam Will Surely Get the Earth. OUR COMPETITION 13 DANGEROUS. Snys a South African Agent to Britishers, and It Is Growing Worse und More of It. London, Oct. 24.—The Daily Mall publishes an interview wlthh Charles Bletteiiinn Elliott, general manager of tin- Cape government railways, on -the result of his recent visit to the United States. ’‘American industrial competition is serious,” says Elliott, “as it has only just begun. Splendid new machinery and new methods are everywhere in preparation, and work will be undertaken on such a scale as .to make successful competition difficult. My strong advice to the British firms is to visit the United States and see for themelvee. What greatly surprised me was the extent of the use of automatic machinery, nothing like which Is to be seen in England.” Johnny Ball ft Lit tie Slow.

After describing various large works ! lie visited in the United States lie goes | on to refer to the use of American locoI motives on the Cape railways, explainj ing that it was only urgent hurry which ! led to their employment, as the British | firms asked for eighteen months and ! the American but six to complete the ! order. Cape Prefers British Manufactures* I Tlie Cape Town correspondent of The aPily Mail, referring to the attacks in London on Elliott for giving orders to the United States, says he has made Inquiries of the Cape minister of railways and the managerof tlieeompantes concerned and Is in a position to exonerate Elliott. “No orders were placed anywhere." the correspondent asserts, “except with the sanction of the Cape government. Mr. Elliott’s mission being simply one of inquiry and advice. The Cape government gave a preference to the extent of 10 per cent, in price over .foreigners for all goods manufactured within the British empire: and only British inability to complete within the time limit led to the giving of some orders to the United States.” Will lie No Britifth Steel Irtiftt. London. Oc. 24.—0 n the authority of the secretary of one of the largest steel companies in England a representative of the Associated Press is able to say that there will not be any steel trust formed here. There may possibly be some combinations of the smaller concerns, but the steel trade of England Is practically in the hands of three firms, and these concerns emphatically deny that they eontemplateamalgamation or aborptlon.