Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-07
IN AUSTRIA.
An iNrERVIEW WITH UNITED
STATES CONSUL JUsS0N.
Austrian Effort for Commercial Adj
vancement-Necessi for Organ
ization In America.

VIENNA, May %, 1888.
While we OF California are the peers in |
progressiveness in many lines Of action, we
are yet positively inactive in one direction,
and that direction has not been overlooked |
by the astute European. This city, for in
stance, has a strong organized body, COM
posed OF men of brains and energy at its
head, with an ample and efficient corps of
paid assistants at its command, and in ad-
dition to this receives valuble aid from the
Government Of Austria. The work of
this organization is mainly directed to-
wards the maintenance Of a scale of tariffs
and duties in Austria, conducive to the
welfare and protection Of their industries.
We may properly call their labor one of
comparative tariffs" and thor results.
To aid them in their work they have
Commercial Museum" wherein are to be
seen the various items that they wish to
pass under their scruitnizing survey. No
item is neglected, Cor every conceivable
line Of industry comes in for its due share
Of consideration.
The novel writers OF Europe and &C home
have given forth an edIct that it is vulgar
10 talk shop" and as no respectable mer-
chant desires to be vulgar we try not to
talk Shop" How proper, to be sure
But, friends and fellow-citizens, the clear
headed merchants of Europe do not pay
the slightest attention to what the novels
say, hence they "talk shop" and not alone
tho rpaaralagraf h11I fbo (lnuornt,,apt and
Government officials MS well See how
well they do it. | will give it in the very
words of the Hon. Mr.. Jusson, the United
States Consul at Vienna, as he stated it to
me last night.
Yes, this association" said he, sis do
ing grand work for Austria 1t started
under the auspices Of the Austrian Gov
eminent, in connection with the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs. The first move that
the Ministers of Foreign Affairs made was
to instruct their Consuls in foreign coun-
tries TO call attention to the Export
Sample Depot in Vienna. In addition,
the Export Society printed an illustrated
catalogue of the exhibition contained in
the sample department in five Ian
guages, of which $4,000 copies were sent to
the Austrian Consuls for distribution
among the importers of their respective
districts"
While these Europeans are doing heroic
work for the supremacy Of their CONNER
cial interests, we Of California are content
to peddle real estate, and hope that at some
time or other the great Eureka will come
right side up with care" What a
shame California is now pivoting on the
centerpoint This is the time of the eaui-
librium. Let the lever descend in one di-
rection, and the result is retrogression and
immediate ruin to thousands. If on the
other, it means new life, new vigor, a
new era for all within her borders, and for
millions of those who are to come.
How many thousands there are in Cali
fornia who would calamity brave life and
property in her defense These thousands
can now find more peaceful and equally
honorable occupation in helping the low
ering of the proper end of the lever. 1t
needs the highest skill, the highest talent
to float our State into permanent sea of
prosperity. Shall we not find it? What
more elevating. what more holy, what
more humane, what more divine work can
human being do than that of aiding to
build up great commonwealth that is to
be the future home of millions of free and
independent people?
Is California, then, in need IF extraor-
binary energy? Yes, this is critic; time,
the most critical, perhaps, in her history.
We are pledged to the world as paradise
of homes, an asylum where the struggle
for existence is reduced to a minimum, and
where the comforts of the highest civil
ization is at the maximum. Our chief de-
pendence for the qualification Of the last
is in the verifcation Of the first.
The verifcation of the first can only be
established by finding remunerative
-HSrket for our produce. Our produce is
lruit, the grape and the olive. The market
must be found. This market can be found.
To find it, however, requires the best
efforts, the highest talents, not alone of
the fruit merchants, but that of every soul
in California who has a spark of love for
the great and glorious State whose destiny
it is to shelter millions under her protect
ing wing.
Let the Europeans work on unchecked,
unhindered, and our fruits will become
byword and a reproach, values will shrink
and our real estate will be drag. Heroic
work, our best work, should be directed to
comteract all thwarting efforts of Euro
PGdl lUktISSlS lct It's CUGNhUldt6 Inenl
in energy, in earnestnesS, in skill, and we
will come out victorious, for we have it in !
our power not only to hold them at bay in |
our own market, but we can even, if the |
tariff road is opened properly, meet them |
on their own ground in Europe, and by |
reason of the superiority and cheapness of |
our products, place them in competition |
with theirs and when this is properly |
done, we can secure their trade.
Thus far California has but one aid to |
her chief industry | refer to the agri-
cultural department at the University |
at Berkeley. The usefulness of this /
one institution is even hampered |
by reason Of its limited means |
A new policy should be adopted,
a broad and liberal policy, in the direction |
Of securing such eminent talent in all pos
sible directions that would tend TO enlarge |
our knowledge and our sphere Of action.
Returning to my conversation with Con-
sui Jusson, said: understand you to |
say that the Austrian organization for the |
promotion of commerce receives valuable |
aid from the Austrian Consular service |
Do the American Consuls likewise aid the |
commercial interests of the United |
Statesf'
Yes they do" he replied, and in sub
sanitation of this assertion he showed me
that within period of three years s67 re- !
ports had been made out by him and trans
mitted to Washington, whereas the Rus
sian and British ConSuls we're only asked |
10 make out yearly report.
What becomes Of the Consular re- |
ports after they reach Washington how
is the information they contain dihused p
queried l.
In rep, Mr.. J,Sson showed me quite |
collection of books and pamphlets con-
tanned in q bookcase in his office. Point
ing to them he said: "You see they are
printed by the State Department at the
Government Printing Office at Washing
t"R and are intended for general circula-
ton" Mr.. Jusson asked nue. if they were
read. told him that in my Judgment not
more than perhaps one person in |
ten thousand ever saw these reports
and that perhaps not more than one per-
son in one hundred Thousand ever read |
one. That as general rule they were