Through its agency millions of money has been brought here, adding materially to the general prosperity and wealth, besides bringing it into notice wherever its productions are sent.

I have been told that there is nothing in the eastern world that attracts the attention of the inhabitants like a Yankee clock.

It has this moment come into my mind of several years ago giving a dozen brass clocks to a missionary at Jerusalem; they were shipped from London to Alexandria in Egypt, from there to Joppa, and thence about forty miles on the backs of Camels to Jerusalem, where they arrived safe to the great joy of the missionary and others interested, and attracted a great deal of attention and admiration.

I also sent my clocks to China, and two men to introduce them more than twenty years ago.
I will here say what I truly believe as to the future of this business; there is no place on the earth where it can be started and compete with New Haven, there are no other factories where they can possibly be made so cheap.

I have heard men ask the question, "why can't clocks be made in Europe on such a scale, where labor is so cheap ?" If a company could in any part of the old world get their labor ten years for nothing, I do not believe they could compete with the Yankees in this business.