Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-11-18

AMERICAN Z'R<iDE COMPETITIONS.
In report under the caption, "American
Trade Competition" Consul Mason at Basic,
Switzerland, says that only those who have been
reading the leading foreign newspapers, pam.
phlets and official reports throughout Europe
during the past two years can realize how much
attention the growth Of American trade has
attracted, and the nature of the protective mea-
sures which have either been proposed or
adopted to check the growing competition.
Mr.. Mason says that the orders Of the British
Government prohibiting the expectation Of
American cattle, the French and Austrian
DEGREES against American pork and the German
tariff decisions classifying cotton covered hams
as cotton goods and canned meats as hardware,
were simply pretexts, as these restrictions were
placed upon American products chiefly TO break
the force OF American competition and to stop
the flow OF gold to this country. II Mr.. Mason
is not mistaken, this question Of competition
with the United States extends beyond food
products and raw materials The time is past
when thing can be sneered al because of
American origin. Only few months since
Mr. Worth, the noted Partisan milliner, pro.
nounced American silks equal to the best that
Lyons can produce, and English and Partisan
tailors pay tribute to American style and
finish by guaranteeing San American fl.
French economist, recently said:
"America tends more and more to dispense
with our goods, because, with better educated
and more intelligent workmen and a general
use OF machinery, she manufactures as well and
sometimes better than we. I confess that
cannot see American watches figuring in the
shop windows at lower prices than the Geneva
ones without becoming uneasy. The
growth Of America and the advance OF her in.
dustIies are Supplying"
tf--One OF most notable treaties upon this sub
ject is that Of DIR. Herr, member OF the Imperial
Council Of Austria, and an economic writer of
wide reputation. He reviews the finances,
the productive capacity of soil and mines, the
development of cheap transportation and the
political influences OF an intelligent prosperous
and enfranchised populace upon the Legislation
OF this country, and contrasts this picture Of
the most prosperous people in the world, with
its small army and navy and constantly di-
minishng debt, with the overburdened Gov.
ernments OF Europe, staggering under costly
military establishments and navies which they
are as unable to abandon as they are to dis.
cover new resources in their worn-ou fields
and fully-developed mines He then considers
the effect OF the competition upon the leading
countries of Europe, and concludes with the
questions, What can Europe do in self-defencer
How shall its farmers be protected against the
cheap breadstusfs, meats and fruits Of America,
and still give the people employed in its man.
uiaturing and industries cheap food How cut
of the influx Of American manufactures and
still avoid losing the United States as market
Tor their own redundant waIesl The eminent
economist cannot answer his own questions
His first thought is protective tariff adopted
by all Europe except England against that
country and the United States. A discussion
OF this proposition leads the writer to abandon
it and to vaguely fall back upon theory Of
protection for Austria similar to that Of
the United States