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the pleasure of visiting a well-known textile goods firm--I say I had the bonor of visiting the store in the city of New York, und the head of the export department showed me Samples in textile, lines of thread, especially, and he told me that those things were very good for ladies' dresses.
Now if that gentleman had known even a very little about the manners and customs and habits of our people, he would also have known that those goods could not have been sold in India. Such prints are not used in India. In fact, the manufacturers of Great Britain make a speciality in this line, some of them manufacture entirely for India and the surrounding country. That is the very Secret of success of the British manufacturer.
Next comes other articles like the fibres, and they belong to the textile line. Then also we can create a demand in India for the American dried fruit: also for glass, and glassware, for graphite in the raw condition. Still only the great country that produced this mineral, and we want it, and we can get it from an island only a few hours journey from our country, but in the manufacture of graphite, certainly that ought to be an opening in India. Of course there is always an opening in civilized countries for gunpowder but we advise you not to send it, we do not like it, we do not like the policy that is heralded by gunpowder. There is an opening for the manufacture of
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