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Vol. 48. 



JUNE 1, 1913. 



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FOREIGN FACTORIES IN THE UNITED STATES. 



ta.xed at our custom house, and the English Moseleys 

 helped to establish the Mechanical Fabric Co. 



Mandelberg, a great English manufacturer of mackin- 

 toshes, quite reccnll}- c(|uipiJed a factory near New York, 

 simply because of the protection given to American man- 

 ufacturers. 



Nearly all of the original American elastic fabric com- 

 panies, and these arc many, came here because of our 

 protective duties. 



In a word, capital, skilled labor and great industries 

 ha\c come here to stay — to the advantage of the country 

 —under, say, a 35 per cent. duty. Had the duty been 

 10 per cent, they would have stayed at home, and with 

 their cheaper labor shut up many an American factory. 



REDUCING RUBBER PRICES TO ENCOURAGE NEW 



USES. 



THE tariff demoli.shers, in their statistical endeavors, 

 do not seem to figure out the number of foreign in- 

 dustries that have been brought over to the United States 

 solely because those interested could not sell in this mar- 

 ket and make the goods at home. In the rubber trade 

 alone are scores of examples. The greatest hard rubber 

 business in America was founded by the German Pop- 

 penhusen, who brought with him such men as A. D. 

 Schlesinger, and about whose factories gathered scores 

 of skilled (ierman artisans, today patriotic and thrifty 

 American citizens. Later the great hard rubber com- 

 pan)', Heinrich Traun & Sohne of Hamburg, found it 

 wise to build and operate their own factory in the United 

 States. 



The real beginning of the druggists' sundries business 

 lay with the Tyer Rubber Co., started by Henry G. Tyer, 

 an Englishman, who brought more than half a million of 

 dollars of English money to this side of the water. 



The IMichelins, first in the field of automobile tires in 

 Europe, found the tarilt not to their mind, and erected a 

 factory in Xew Jersey to manufacture for the Americans. 



Card ciDihing made on a large scale in Europe was 



A VERY interesting proposal, referred to on an- 

 other page of this issue, has recently appeared 

 in the English financial press, to the efifect that the 

 ruljber planters agree to set aside one-tenth of their 

 product to be sold to certain English and American 

 manufacturers at 60 cents a pound, under an agree- 

 ment that this shall be used in the manufacture of 

 articles not now on the market — the purpose being to 

 encourage new uses for rubber. 



It undoubtedly would be easy to find manufacturer.s 

 who would religiously live up to this arrangement, and 

 employ any 60-cent rubber they might acquire, solely 

 in exploiting new methods of using rubber; but would 

 an}- substantial end be accomplished b\" this project? 

 C)bviously it would be a matter of expense to the 

 planters, for when the market price of their rubber 

 was 90 cents, if they sold 10 per cent, of their product 

 for 60 cents, they would be losing 333^ per cent, of 

 their legitimate price for the one-tenth sold at this 

 figure, wdiich would be a loss of 3^^ per cent, on their 

 whole product. And would this artificial lowering of 

 price in reality greatly encourage new uses of rubber? 

 If under this encouragement a use were found for some 

 new rubl)er article, as soon as it secured recognition 

 it would have to be manufactured from rubber at the 

 full market price — this 10 per cent, cheap rubber being 

 reser\-cd exclusively for untried articles. 



Rul)])er manufacturers, if not quite as deeply inter- 

 ested as the planters in the increased consumption of 

 ruliber, are, nevertheless, alert to the possibilities of 

 the unbeaten i^ath. and are always ready to test the 



