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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9093, 12 March 1908, Page 2

JOHN BULL, SHOPKEEPER. .. —' 1 Reflecting on the disastrous results attendant upon the determined efforts of the American Tobacco Trust some years ago co overrun British commercial entrenchments, and to— carry the citadel by storm, and the fact that not only was the enemy beaten off with disastrous losses, but that th.e defenders promptly 'assumed the agrgessive, one is prepared for a frank confession that America’s attacks upon Britain’s trading prestige lack most of the essentials requisite for the final achievement of success. “This good ship, Yankee Invasion, was a fair craft. She sailed for the British Isles, ""manned by a full crew of Yankee salesmen, and promised to be a cup-winner in foreign trade. But to-day her hulk lies, broadly speaking., about twenty fathoms deep off a rook-bound coast. ’ ’ Thus rings the prefatory note of a series of articles contributed by Mr J. H. Collins, to the Philadelpha Evening Post. To the outward eye, he says, John Bull is always tottering into commercial senility in his home trade. But many an American concern, deceived by this characteristic, has entered John Bull’s market in a holiday fashion, only to find itself outside the door again in a few months. He gives a typical illustration, of the methods of invasion. Until Americans came to London, he asserts, England knew little of modern boots. The imported footwear at once became popular, were pushd by British shopmen, and began to double steadily in sales from month to month. “Then the American manufacturers virtually left this lusty foreign trade infant on John Bull’s doorstep and ran away home again. ’’ The result was that British manufacturers sent to America for the necessary machinery, and now, Mr Collins states, there is only one American shoe firm in London which can be considered healthy and growing.. '. Apart from Mr Collins’ observations, innumerable instances are available, all furnishing proof of the suggestion that the British manufacturer, slow to move, though he may be, once he has gained the momentum of enterprise, generally emerges from the hurly-burly of competitive warfare secure in the possession of that which was nominally his own. Francs, . for a brief exhilarating period, held supremacy in English and all other markets for the production of motor-cars. British manufacturers at first responded either feebly or not at all. Gradually, however, the trade became established on a solid basis, and foreign competition was ousted once and for all. Mr Collins sums up the trade situation in one sentence of You Moltke’s—-that he knew several ways to take an army into England, but not one by which to get it out.

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