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in Boston wished to talk to a man living in San Francisco, he had 

 to transport his body across the continent before he could do it. 

 Today, all that is necessary is for you to turn in your chair, pick 

 up a tiny instrument, and command the voice of your friend whose 

 body is on the other side of the continent, and his voice immediately 

 sounds in your ear. 



The Germans were the first people who had sufficient vision and 

 courage to comprehend what mighty and practical changes the 

 scientist and the inventor had wrought in business methods. They 

 lost no time, twenty-five years ago, in shaping their future to be 

 in keeping with the great new electrical age which the world was 

 entering. They formed large trading companies, with great rapidity 

 abandoned the old axiom " competition is the life of trade," and 

 substituted the new slogan " cooperation is the life of trade." With 

 this slogan they went out for the trade of the world. At the same 

 moment our country took exactly the opposite course, and through 

 the passage of the Sherman law declared that competition was and 

 must continue to be the life of trade. 



Japan is another country that has lost no time in throwing off 

 the customs and precedents of the past and entering the great new 

 electrical world with broad vision and splendid courage. Witness 

 what Japan has accomplished in less than half a century. She has 

 cast off the customs and precedents of centuries, and has reached 

 out with great eagerness for the newer and more advanced thought 

 of the world. She has sent her best young manhood to the uni- 

 versities of all the civilized countries. She has sent commissions 

 of her most able men to all points of the globe, that they might 

 bring back the best thought and most advanced practices in social 

 and business relations. For the last quarter of a century precedent 

 has meant nothing to Japan. She has thought only of the match- 

 less opportunities that are opening to the world because of universal 

 education and vastly improved methods of intercommunication. 



In both Germany and Japan the government has worked hand in 

 glove with its merchants and manufacturers, leaving no stone 

 unturned to make it clear to their people that the customs of their 

 fathers and forefathers were things of the past, and that new 

 beliefs, methods, and practices must take the place of old ones. 



Foreign Business Methods Ahead of American. We pride 

 ourselves on being a new country, a progressive country, free from 

 the shackling influence of precedent. As compared to Germany 



