HON. J. H. CHOATE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8940, 4 December 1905, Page 3

HON. J. H. CHOATE.

HIS ADVICE TO AMEBICA.XS TO CUL TIYATE REPOSE.

The Moseley Commission which visited the United Si-at-?s some time ago to report on. tl--? industrial methods of that country, returned with the information that what Great Britain wanted was more push, more "electricity,"' more stressfulness. Mr Choafce. ex- American Ambassador to the Court of St. Jamee, turns to his native land to tell his countrymen that ■what they want is more British repose, more deliberation of method and manner, more ease and therefore less bustle. The two opinions, accepting them as a guide, are in diametrically opposite directions, and this is dae to the manner of men who hare expressed them. The Moseley Commissioners were business men and saw things on a business plane; ilr Choate is a professional man. with the atmosphere of the horary about him, and he sees the beautiful side of repose to the exclusion oi the exigencies of competitive commercialism. While England is likely to get more in line with the first recommendation, America isn't at all likely to accept the second to the extent of making it a ■ rule of life. The mere fact indeed that I England is developing a strenuous commercial system more and more each year makes any abatement of the American system of strenuousness impossible. And th*n there is Germany, a country which is moving along a fast and ever widening commercial track with but- one object to become tho chief exporting nation in the world. A glance at a. month's files from England will show that her r^poee is fast passing ay/ay, and that the methods there are becoming both Americanised and Germanised. Trade methods are indulged in now that a quarter of a. century ago would have horrified the typical English merchant, and a contempt has set in for classical educational methods which has got so far that Birmingham has just opoiud the first, fully equipped Trade University known to history. Here repose will be thrown to the winds, and the professors who have been rho-sc-n for their ability to do it will teach students but one tiling — how to become captains of trade and commerce. The truth is that repose is possible in business only where there is no competition, or when the business to be done is so Itrrge that the tteraand can't keep pace with it. With England, America and Germany fighting for an amount of business which is .not sufficient to keep the three going full speed repose becomes impossible, for with it is decay and destruction. Perhaps it would be better if there wore an agreement not to fight, but then trade is ILke armaments — if your competitor or possible foe goes on increasing iiis pace you must increase yours or be smothered as a consequence of getting too far behind. Repose was killed by the steamship, ths locomotive and the teleeraph, and tho probability is that what took its place, energy, will go in intensifying till it reaches that point of application which is limited only by the Jirnits ol human ambition and resourcefulness.

To do away -with the harmful properties of tannin, Mr V. Webster has secured patents in Ceylo:i, ea-ys the "Civil and Military Gazette*" for malted tea, which is a mixture of tea and shredded malt. The crew of the Scotch herring boat No. 540, from KixkcaMv. earned £170 by 0110 eight's nshing.