Under this complacent heading, the Evening Bulletin" of Philadelphia thus adverts to the French plan for a school of commerce in that city.
The statement is made on what is apparently official authority, that the French nical aad industrial school in the United cromment propuses to establish a tech: States for the, purpose of training ambi tious young Frenchmen in the methods which have made this country the foremost manufacturing nation in the world.
Director Boquet, the Chief of the Degprtment of Technical Instruction in the rench Ministry of Commerce, is quoted as declaring that the United States is now so far ahead of England, Germany, and France in practical achievement that students must come over here to school if they are to learn how to produce the best results in trade and manufacturing. Hence, France, instead of sending numbers of her young men to other European countries to Teceive instruction in these specialties, will establish an institution in some of our great cities, where students. "will be able to study under capable guidance, that audocity, inventive genius, and marvellous organisation which have lifted the industrial world of America above that of her European rivals."
Tt would be difficult to frame a more complete confession of American superiority in trade and industry than these words contain. They constitute an admission that Europe must go to school to us if its people are to hold their owning international Competition in the arts of peace.
"American enterprise in London affords some journals much cause for satisfaction:—
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