20
Uncle Sam
Z&BaSATQlZr or . SOIL .
Hy KllANK (I. I'AKI'KNTEIl.
UPPOSK you had a buHlncHS
which brought In 14.000 for
every minute of every day
and every night for the noo
working days of the year!
Would It not pay to take care
f It? Suppose you sold on every one of
W IMf : " Y:i. I
f . , : .
SI which brought In 14.000 for " Induntrlal activity In Japun. otic on l 1 ltSflZ UR IZL'l&R M 1 1 1 JGNj ' I
I 'v"y nilnule of every day an A met loan bank for China and one on I V Rill J&CZLhW t 1
mono oays a total of W.OOO.OOO, and the mo new featurea of the street trafflo
year something like $1,800,000,0001 Would Ixmdon; It treats of the aolor eclipse,
not you want to Increase It? which may be bent seen at Oporto, In
That li what Uncle Bam In doing aa to Portugal, and of how winter apples are
our foreign trado. lilt exporte In 1W selling At Wlndnor, Ontario. It tella how
-old for over 11,809.000,000. They were al- public bullJInsts are about to be erected
,.most as much last year, and they wilt In the new capital of Australia and urge
run close to tho ame amount this. We our architects to send on designs for the
are among the chief merchants In the houses of Parliament and other great
reat market house wf the world. We .tinctures.
are atlll led by Oreat Britain and Ger- In addition to these there are other
many, but our foreign trade la rapidly articles In this day'e copy of the paper,
growing, and the day will coma when we The government Unties a Journal like this
.hall be the biggest traders of the whole every morning. The publication now
wor,(1' amounts to Hi,o00 copies, and It goes to
This letter will tell you some of the the boards of trade, chambers of corn
means by which Undo Bam, patrlaroh. Is merce and the newspapers all over the
increasing that trade. There are two da- country. The most of the articles are
p.rtment. which are especially devoted republished by the papers, so that the
to It. One Is the agricultural branch of news gets to all who are Interested,
the government, which haa to do with our The Confidential Me r vice,
crop experts, and the other la the De- Uncle Ham's Dally la carefully watched
partment of Commerce and Labor, which by our foreign competitors, and the ex
deals with both manufacturers and crops, porters of Oermany, England and France
The crops have always had a large part Jump at all of Its suggestions of value
in the business. The manufactures are to them. For this reason the government
of more recent growth, but they promise la not giving tho names of foreign busl
in time to surpass all that which comes ness men who make Inquiries, but It
from the soli. keeps such addresses and supplies them
Have you any Idea how much our on' confidentially to those of our fac
manufacturing business amounts to? I torles aa could make the goods needed,
dislike to use figures; they mean so little This plan Is found to be a profitable one
.when they get into the millions. I had and has led to the sale of many Amerl
nn Interview not long ago with Mrs. can products. I-aat year about 1,600 such
, Hetty Oreen, the richest woman on earth, opportunities were published and since
during which she told me her mind re- the bureau began this work, more than
.fused to work on anything over ll.OOO.oro, 6.000 aeparate Items, each of which rep
My mind Is stunned by 1100.000, and the resented an opening for the aale of cer
ord billion means nothing but "exceed- tain machines, have been given to the
Ingly large." The only way to realize American manufacturers,
uch conceptions Is by homely compart- In addition the government Is sending
Sp"8. out si great deal of confidential Informa-
' Well. In figures the products we mako tlon. It haa Its experts scattered over
annually in our factories are worth 115,
000,000.000 or 1.000,000.000; they are so '
many that If every man, woman and
child on this big. round earth oould have
an equal share of them the amount held
by each would be Just $10. If they were
nil divided among our own 100,000,000 pop
ulation each of us would have tlOO worth,
and the share of each family would be
tTuO or 'more.
Again, look at the money Invested In
our manufacturing bmnnesn! The capital
Is about equal to the product, and the
tost of the materials annually used Is
somewhere' between W.OUO.floo.OOO and U,
tiW.000.000. The Induntrles here taken into
account are only those confined to the
wi hb, aiiij in men employed In thtni
are 600.000 or 800,000. The Census divides
t-ur great industries Into fourteen groups,
and of them five are each making prod-
ut of more than $1,000,000,000 a year.
Moreover, the amounts are steadily In-
creasing, and we need more foreign trado
to keep the hands busy. Our foreign
sales already foot up bver retoooooo and,
had we the markota we could easily make
it a billion. They now amount to about
45 ner cent m. i,.n
. .... 7 " . in i j.v,
ana over double the amount of our ex
port, of manufacture. In tho year ixso
indeed, w are rapidly climbing to tTe
top among the nations which are sell
riling
the most goods made by machine and by
Iiand. We now rank third, belnir onlv
"aM Y Gre., ' .Britai" ormny-
, f "r.y . V." h,ch
ii. vc ju.i ii. a nun jr. j. ii. ttaldwln.
the chief of tho bureau of manufactures
of the Department of Commerce and
lAbor, and of th. story of how Uncle
Sam Is trying to push foreign trade
Uurru ... esiac-nsneu to collect teers as an aide-de-camp on the staff of
Information a. to where and how the General Benjamin M. Prentiss, a veteran
good, should be shipped. It is operated 0f the Mexican war. In October. 1S61.
lu conjunction with the consular service without any previous military experience
and gather, all sorts of Information for save that of an aldo, he becamo a major
cor manufacturers who would do business In the Sixth Illinois cavalry, when that
abroad. It publiehea a dally paper made organisation was formed at Camp Butler,
up of the reports of the consuls as they III. The following month the regiment
come In, and has on hand a vast amount moved to Shawnectown, in that state,
of confidential Information which It for- and was on duty there until February,
wards to thobe factories which can sup- W, when It went to Paducah, Ky.,' and
ply foreign needs. thence to Columbus.
This dally is about the only paper pub- Wanted to Mr In Urant.
luhed by the United mates government. On April 12, 1ICX when he had been In
The copy issued tills morning now lies the service about a year, he was itiuiia
before me; It contains twenty pages and colonel of his regiment, and a few months
)as reports from Japan, China, Germany, later the volunteer colonel commanded a
l:n5land, Australia and Canada. Several cavalry brigade. Colonel Grlerson'a
xiges are devoted to foreign trado op- regiment had at times made raids Into
jHirlunlties, Including the openings for Mississippi and Tennessee In 1.162, and it
American shoe. In Germany, for apples occurred to the young cavalryman that
In Kngluud and for lard, flour and cot- ,le could help General Grant ln III.
tonseed oil at Mediterranean ports. An- operations against Vliksburg If be mude
ithtr page suggests how our vacuum way kouth from Tennessee and cut
cleaners might tie sold in certain Kuro- tllu railroad east of Jackson, Miss, lie
pi-an cities, and others report ousinesa r,ad mentioned the matter several times
firms ln a number of counties which to his superior officers, but to no pur
want certain things, which the factories Po. as they did not expect that lie
Aiiakiiisi iiiciu iu iuw Uniiil msics, ii ccud tr.Uc a sccfss of tit. viitui..
Finally in tbe spring of Utit, be re
Busy in the Great Markets of
OFJi
they write to tli bureau, can arrange to
supply. The paper has also an article
on Induntrlal activity In Japun. one on
an American bank for China and one on
the. status of business at the head of the
Yukon In Alaska. It describes the open-
Ings tor our firearms In AhIu, the recent
discovery of alamonds In Canada and
NOTED RAIDEROF CIVIL WAR
Pasting; of the Commander of a
Remarkable Exploit.
SECOND IOWA CAVALRY IN RAID
Dash f Eight llsadred Mllee
Threagh Enemy's Country with.
Seventeen Hnndred Mem la
Sixteen "tlrrlnv Days.
Benjamin H. Orleson, brevet major gen-
eral. United States arm. retired, one of
the most distinguished survivors of the
clv" ,,r- dle1 "l m" "um,ner n,n, ln
Omena, Mich., September 1.
At tm e",nln vt 1,18 clvl1 v,ar tl,ere
"ved ln ,n ,owtl c Jacksonville III, a
yo"nt "" wno WM endeavoring to
m"ko uc" oI hu P""1 business,
nd 'ho"e nme " ""ctlt"y un"
known ta V" bM,l,'7 ",c,a"d
farmera with whom he came in contact.
Two years later this young man's name
" ' , w .. ....
n"nt U,"0n, VT ',
prolU? f? "
was almost as well known aa the promt-
Urlervon. Prior to April, 1M1, he had no
thought of any career save that of a
suceasful merchant. Yet young Grlersou,
in 1863. led on. of the most daring and
Perilous raid, undertaken during the civil
war.
11 N Dlf tul.nrsV. nM liilv t 1 W. 1 1,.-
,on moved Bt early ,0 Trumbull,
O., and then to Jacksonville, 111. When
war was declared, he entered the volim-
the world looking up trade opportuntlcs
and Ih sending forth confidential HUKgex
tluns for the special pushing of certain
manufactures. Among those recently sent
here are some as to warships for the
Argentine government, rifles and ammu
nition for the Servian government, cold
storage openings In Italy and as to build
ing, materials and machinery for Canada.
The' letters on warships eventually
brought orders amounting to S20,000,0ou,
and other circulars have led jto an enor
mous increase In certain branches of our
foreign trade.
I have before me a list of somo of
these confldental communications which
show the recent openings for our goods.
A few are as follows: drain seeds for
Argentina, cotton goods for Turkey, cor
rugated Iron for Abyssinia, automobiles
for Australia, public works In filam, ma
chinery and equipment for Mexico, op
portunities for American goods In Chile,
potato diggers for Scotland and the kind
of motor cara wanted for Russia.
Among other confidential circulars are
those which descrlbo the demand for
artesian wells In Tripoli, bids for Irri
gation dams at Dagdad, shoes for the
Greek army, dyeing materials for Al
merla, lubricating oil for llulgaria, sew
erage material for Cairo, plows for Eiam,
steel rails for Ireland, sugar for Tripoli,
trailnlng vessels for tho Chlneito govern
ment, clpctrlo lighting plants for Bnr
badoes, lobsters for Ituxsla, peanuts for
tiermany, sine machinery for TaHinania,
bridges for Guatemala and cotton seed
for the Netherlands. TIioho are only a
few of several pages of titles. They show
the range of the work,
t'nele Nam's Praminrra.
In talking with the chief of the bureau
ceived the welcome order to go ahead.
The orders simply contemplated Ills
reaching and destroying the railroad
running east from Vicksburg, thraugh
Jackson to Meridian, and then toward
the confederate army In middle Tennes
see. After that was accomplished, Ills
movements were to be entirely at his own
discretion. On the morning of Friday,
April 13, 1MB, Colonel Grlcrson set out
from La Orange, Tenn.. at the bead of
1.700 men. His command consisted of the
Sixth and Seventh Illinois, and the eo
ond Iowa cavalry, with a light battery
of six guns. Colonel Ikiwnrd Prince was
In command ijr the Seventh Illinois and
Colonel Kdward Hatch of the Second
Iowa. The men of the regiments were
all anxious for the expedition, and there
was great disappointment among those
who had to be left behind. Colonel drier
son", superior officers were reluctant to
see him go, believing that they would
not see the gallant young colonel or his
command again.
It was a bright morning as the com
mand marched away from tho camp. The
men were furnished with ration, for five
days. They had hard bread, coffee,
sugar and .alt only. They had no vehi
cles, the only wheel. In the command
being six light field pieces drawn by two
horses eaoh. Colonel Urlerson had only
one staff officer. First Lieutenant Sam
uel L. Woodward, Sixth Illinois Volun
teer cavalry, now a brigadier general on
the retired list of the army.
The first day the command marched
thirty miles and camped at night In the
town of Ripley, Miss. Tallahatchie river
wa. crowed on the second day. On Sun
day, April IS, two companies mad. a duh
at New Albany, where they found the
bridgo partially destroyed and on fire.
They chargrd the enemy, drove them
away, repaired the bridge and crossed.
After crossing the river the command
moved south on parallel roads towards
Pontotoc, Miss. It was necessary . t J
march on two or more roada in ord'T to
obtain forage and other supplies.
Wsrk of Small Haldlnc Parties.
During that day the advance guard was
often fired on by scouting parties, and
several men were captured. On the morn
ing of April 20 all the prisoners so far
raptured and tbe stock not needed by
the command waa sent back to Tennessee,
Colonel Grlerson'a men then started on
the march south, going through farm,
and woods and avoiding some towns. On
the fifth lay, after leaving La Grange,
the command struck the road leading
southeast to Columbus. Miss. At that
place the Iowa regiment of cavalry, un
der Colonel Hatch, was detached with
order, to proceed eastward, atrike the
Mobile ft Ohio railroad, and go througn
western Alabama to Columbus, Miss.,
and back to La Grange, ine rest ci tne
THE OMAHA .SUNDAY I'.KK: OCTOBER 1. 1911.
r- mi
of manufactures I gathered some infor
mation as to Undo Hum's drummers, aa
hlB traveling commercial agents might be
called. In addition to our consuls at the
chief cities and ports the world over
the bureau has Its own commercial
agents, who are sent abroad to Investi
gate tho markets for special manufac
tures and to report upon trado condi
tion. These men are specialists along
the line which they Investigate; they
know all about the Industries at home
and what Is required for pushing them
abroad; they are paid fixed salaries
and their traveling expenses and they
devote their entire tlmo to going over
the world looking up openings for
American trade. By the time this let
ter is published there will be about a
doien of them on the road. There are
nine or ten at work, now, some Jn
Kurope, some in Asia and some in
South America and Australia. Among
them are Major J. M. Carson, former
chief of the bureau, and a trade expert
from Seattle, who is devoting himself
especially to trade between yur Pacific
coast and the Orient.
Chances for American Cotton.
The work done by theso agents is val
uable, they send back full Information
as to how goods should be made for the
various markets and how packed and
shipped. W, A. Graham Clark, for In
stance, has recently returned from South
America, where he has been Investigat
ing cotton goods, and shows the enor
mous market which the United States
might have there If Its manufactures
were properly pushed. He reports that
European trade In these goods Is in
creasing anil is much greater than half
command. numbering 8:0 men, then
marched southward.,
Batlullons were often detached from the
main command to capture and destroy
small towns. Horsemen were scattered
In rcveral detachments, striking confed
erate forces here and there, breaking
up railways and bridges, severing tele
graph wires imd diminishing the means
of transportation of the confederates, who
were trying to help their force at Vicks
burg. At last, on May 2, the wearied troops
and worn-out horses entered Baton
Rouge, after a ride of about 800 miles.
Colonel Grlcrson and his men had covered
that distance In sixteen days. In a suc
cession of forced marches, and some
tlmea without rest for forty-eight hours.
Ills troops had killed and wounded about
100 confederate, and had captured and
purolcd about 500 men. The northern loss
was only twenty-seven men. During the
last thirty hours preceding the arrival of
the cavalrymen at Baton Rouge they
had traveled eighty miles, engaged ln
four skirmishes, and forded the Comlte
river.
Praia for Commander,
That distance was mado without a halt
and without food. No guides were used,
and all that Colonel Grlerson bad with
lilin were rude country maps ami a pocket
compass. When the north learned of tha
safe arrival of tho raiders there was high
praise for the daring commander, as noth
ing like It bad been known during the
war. His nume became a synonym for
daring, not only In the north, but through
out Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and
Misnissl ppl.
General Grant said that this cavalry
raid was of the greatest importance, as
It had attracted the attention. of the
enemy from the main moveaient against
Vicksburg. It wa. at Port Gibson that
General Grant first heard through a
southern newspaper of Colonel Grlerson'a
success. The raid wss probably without
an equal In the annals of the federal
cavalry, for the damage done to the con
federates was estimated at $0,000,000.
A number of brigadier generals recom
mended the promotion of Colonel Grler
son, and on June S. 1M.3. congress con
ferred upon li'm by special act the com
mission of brigadier general of volun
teers, and he also received the thanks
of . that body for his gallant and dis
tinguished service., an honor given to
few. Ho was later made a major gen
eral of volunteers, end Wa. honorably
mustured out on April 13, 1A.
Joins the Heaular Ariur.
Shortly afterward, not desiring to re
turn to the produce business. General
Grlerson entered the regular army as
the first colonel of the Tenth cavalry,
the famous negro regiment. In 1MT the
regiment Has stationed in Kansas, and
shortly before tbe rigiituntal headquar
the World
of the United Rates. In 1910 we shipped
to Latin America less than $S,0(O,O00 worth
of cotton piece goods, while the United
Kingdom sold something like H0,000,'rt
worth that year. The trade of Germany
In such goods Is moro than twice as much
as ours, and Italy Is selling more to
South America than we sell to Central
America, the West Indies and South
America combined. Great Hrltaln sells
more than twice as much cotton goods
to Argentina as we Bell to the whole of
Latin America, and to Argentina and
Brazil more cotton' than wo sell to all
the world outside the United States.
Another special agent has just sent
In a report on the bhoe and leather
trade In which he shows that our ex
ports of these goods have increased about
110,000,000 during tho last year. Of the
shoes J7.000.f00 or $S,000,000 worth went to
Latin America and more than $0,000,000
to Mexico.
Trade Lecturers.
Congress haa made an appropriation of
IDO.OOO for these commercial travelers this
year, and tho time will come when tho
scope of their work will be much wider
than it is now; they are doing so much
that their number will be increased, and
it Is the intentnon of the department to
have each of them spend a part of his
tlme In the United States, coming In
actual contact with our exporters and
manufacturers and giving them nugge3
tions as to our foreign trado and how to
develop It. The experts on cotton will
viKit the cotton centers, and thoxe on
steel will go to tho Ktecl mills and steel
shippers. It will be the same with every
branch of business. Kach Industry will
be told where and how It can ship Us
goods to the best advantage and the
ters left Fort Leavenworth for Fort
lUley tho troops tad their first engage
ment with Indians. A party of 300 were
encountered near tho Saline river and
tho engagement lasted for nearly Bix
hours. The following year the regiment
was In the Indian Territory, where Col
onel Grlerson and his troopers were kept
busy fighting tho red men. The regiment
also fought In Texas uhd at one tlmu even
crossed into Mexico.
In July, 1KS0, Colonel Grlcrson, with a
party of only six men, was attacked by
a band of Apache Indians in New Mexico.
But before reinforcements canio the In
dians were defeated. - Colonel Grlerson
also took part In the Geronlmo cam
paign In 18S6. He was placed In com
mand of the district of New Mexico,
with headquarters at Santa Ke, In No
vember, ls86. and when General Nelson
A. Mile, was made a major general on
April R, 1890, Grlerson wa. appointed a
brigadier general to succeed him. Three
month, later he wa. placed on the re
tired Hit of the army, having reached
the age limit of sixty-four year. New
York Post.
SORRY SHE COACHED HIM
Marveloas Flow of Coarrrautlou
In Spanish. Drawn front
Parrot.
One Ilolden. keep, a bird .tore upon
Twenty-third etreet. New Tork. He Is,
perhaps, the most famous man In that
line of business thereabouts. You ran
buy anything there from a South Ameri
can condor to a barn owl. "I had a
bully parrot In stock not long ago," .aid
Mr. Ilolden. Finest bird I ever saw as
to plumage and natural Intelligence. But
he wouldn't talk. Just sat on his perch
and glared at me like a chained demon.
I dieted him and doped him, and atlll
he wouldn't prattle to the old man. On.
day a handsome Cuban woman came In,
and I told her of my troubles. 'I'll try
him In Spanish," said she.
"So she did. She iassed a few love
notes to him In the tongue of the Dons,
and that bird brightened up like a hired
hand at o'clock. He cocked his head
on one side and looked her over, and. by
and by, he tore Into the derndest flood
of conversation you ever heard. Just
hopped from one side of his perch to an
other and' laid hi. head over on ono side
and the Spanish came out of him like
noise out of a horn. You never saw any
one get so red as that pretty little Cuban
dame. By and by this parrot turned off
bis Vlctrola, and the Cuban lady turned
to me.
"'Do you understand Spanish?" the
asked.
' 'No, mum," said I.
" 'Thank God,' said she. and left the
fchup.'- Cincinnati tiaies-tiar.
faults which now prevail as to our
dealings with foreigners will be pointed
out and corrected.
I. ate Information as to Packing.
Among the Important things which the
bureau of manufacturer, has been re
cently doing Is the gathering of fresh
Information as to how goods should be
packed. About a jear aco a pamphlet
of this kind was published and It created
a great deal of comment; since then I
am told that our Ehlpments have been
improved and that, something like 80 per
cent of the goods now sent abroad are
properly packed. The worst work Is that
done In the export of raw cotton. The
bales are poorly put up; the burlap Is
torn and a great deal of cotton Is wasted.
Our cousins say that the vJussians,
Ugyptlens and East Indians have much
better cotton bales that we have. It is
claimed that altogether something II It o
J23.O0O.OCO worth of damages is lost to
railroads through Improper packing.
From the consular reports which have
recently come I find many comment, as
to the Improvements In packing. Consul
General Mason, at Paris, says our French
exports are very much better put up
than they have been in the past, but
that our packages are often too heavy
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