Rivals in Trade
Birmingham idol-makers are said to have hitherto had a monopoly of the western trade in brazen gods and other graven images for the unchanging East. But now Birmingham must prepare to patch its coming grief with proverbs. For Uncle Sam has also set to work turning out metal gods. We learn from an American exchange that a Philadelphia firm has contracted to furnish Buddhist idols to a Korean firm. And where the pushing American manufacturer gets his head in, the rest of his body will soon follow.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 15, 9 April 1903, Page 18
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90Rivals in Trade New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 15, 9 April 1903, Page 18
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