New-York tribune., 1883-03-13
SOME ENGLISH-YANKEE TALK.

some ENGLISH YANKEE TALK.
There is one member OF tho British Parlia-
ment at least VINO has an adequate idea OF the
tar-reaching consequences OF the industrial
progress of the United States. This Is Mr
Puleston. Conservative member for DeNonport,
whose residence In Washington for many
years and intimate business connections with
this country have enabled him TO make a
special study of the causes and tendencies OF
American prosperity. He was among the first
Englishmen to give warning OF the disastrous
effect Of the development of the natural re-
sources of the United States on British agricul-
turnl interests keeping well within the range
of the facts although he was ridiculed rs
traveller who had become infatuated with the
Yankee paradise" That effect is now fairly un-
derstCod in England, but the European aspects
of American industry ana prosperity are only
faiptlv appreciated In the course of a recent
speech before the Plymouth Chamber OF Com
merce Mr. Puleston discussed the subject, not
with the air OF n man who had looked on
Western prairie and barely discovered that it
was larger than an English chalk-pit, but IN
compre hensive way. with an eye to tho broadest
effects. His idea was that while England had
country in Europe either had been would be
| powerfully affected, commercially and socially
by the extraordinary progress of an industrial
nation which had not only doubled its pOpula-
ton since 1880 but increased It's food-produc-
tion five times. The changes in progress would
be universal because the North American
range Of latitude was greater than that OF
Europe.
Although Americans have acquired the repu-
tation of being nation of braggarts, there IA
probably no other people In ChIlstend0m that
| has so inadequate an idea of the tendencies OF
| its own civilization and the magnitude of the
work which il is accomplishing throughout the
world That Yankee bumptiOusness," preteD-
| tious as it often seems, Ia always well within
| the actual mark, Mr. Pulestons speech Is n con-
| spicuous proof. On this account the evidence
| on which he grounds his conclusions deserves
critical study. He finds that not only is the
| grain market of England in American hands,
| but that Russia has been supplanted as the
| food producer for Central Europe. American
| brcadstufls are now going To France and Ger
many, tho system Of transportation being so
| complete that the grain trelghts from Chicago
| to Hamburg are lower than from Pesth to Hum
| burg. At Fiume, the great Hungarian grain
| exporting port American grain Is now
handled, and the Russian alcohol distillers arc
| importing American maize. In 1880 the per-
centages Of wheat imported In Germany were
| "a from Russia and 81 from the United States;
of harley, 10 and % respectively; Of corn 2
and %. With these figures before him, Mr..
| Puleston could not think it strange that eco
nomic writers az st. Petersburg were despair
| seu1.a Au.g al
| can methods of farming, transportation and
! education could be adopted in Russia, and that
the German Government was taxing Yankee
canned fruit as hardware and American hams
"a dry goods, and prohibiting the sale of Amer.
can hog products under the shalloweSt pretcIts.
Indeed, he was Confident that France would
| presently feel disastrOusly the competition Of
! the wine districts of tho Union. Wine importers
! at Cologne had already found III California
! samples Of red and white wine superior in
taste to the French wines and admirably
ADAPTED for the German market; and if
| California wine-makers could compete with
! France in Germany, it vas probable that she
could also do so in England. This is not Yam
| kee chan" 1t is the outcome OF an English
Conservatives serious reflections upon the re-
| suits Of thirty years of American industry,
| thrift and enterprise.
| It is interesting to observe what advice Mr.
| Puleston has to offer to his own cUuntrymen in
view of the m0mentous changes caused by
American prosperity. Let us hedge" he
| grimy says, and meet change with change"
| He reminds them that many of the'great Eng
| lish landlords have invested their money In
those very American lands which were reduc-
ing the value of their estates at home and have
also bought ranches and taken part in raising
those very cattle which were keeping down
| the price Of meat to their own detrimentj and
that In this way incomes which have fallen on
| one side of the ocean have risen on the other.
| The wise course for Englishmen, ho contends,
| is to look the facts in the face, get well in adj
vance, and be on the ground to secure share OF
the gam. For example, he foresees that one
| of the effects of the commercial treaty between
| the United States and Mexico will be transfer
of the coffee trade from Brazil, and this will
have a disturbing effect upon British trade, for
the settlements for the coffee used in America
have been mainly effected through English
merchandise. Accordingly. he advises English