W. L. ALDEN ON THE ATLANTIC STEAMERS.
The "Colonel's Cold Truths," in Today, deals with the advantages of the Atlantic- combine. Says the plain and blunt philosopher: — 'You are a curious people. Here you have been bragging for Ihe last 20 yenn. that you were supplying all the world with steamships, by building and selling them to foreigners, but the moment a man comes along and buys steamships by the score, instead of by ones and iivos, you »re scored out of your lives, I wonder you are not scared when you reflect that you are building locomotives - 4or a great many foreigners. To bo consistent, you ought complain that British locomotives are all fallinjr into the hands of foieigners, and, cousequontly you arc all on the high road <o ruin. Now that? you have worked off your old steamers on Morgan, havo'nt you pluck enough to build better ones, and run his ships out of the business. I'm" told that there's no such word as' 'hustle' in the big dictionary that you nre mnking down at Oxford. ThaVs what's the matter with the English people.'
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 47, 23 August 1902, Page 7 (Supplement)
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W. L. ALDEN ON THE ATLANTIC STEAMERS.
Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 47, 23 August 1902, Page 7 (Supplement)
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