The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-03
EUROPE ALARMED.
THE CONGRESS OF AMERICAN MA
TIONS CAUSES APPREBENSIONS.


A Great Loss Of Trade with South America
Anticipated.-stren Efforts to COun-
teract the Influence OF the Congress.
The State Department is receiving just
now from our representatives in Europe
great many interesting extracts from
European journals, expressing some
alarm over the effect upon European
trade of the coming conference of the
American nations. Some of them are
almost hysterical in their appeals to the
South American republics to distrust
our advances and continue to trade in
Europe. Europe ia waking up to the
possible results of the Congress in ear.
nest. LIE Temps of Paris has been pub
fishing a series of articles expressing the
gravest fears as to the consequences of
the Congress. 1t declares that it is in
tended to form a zoliverein among all the
American States, which, while fostering
their commerce among themselves, will
practically exclude that of Europe. This
paper goes on to urge the English and
French merchants to make every effort
to prevent the realization Of this result
and to induce the HispanoAmericanos
toadhere TO their ancient systems. Here
tof0re they have been under the domi,
nation, commercially and somewhat po.
litically, of Spain and the rest OF Europe.
They are just escaping from this.
Commenting on the above articles in
LIE Temps, La Epoca Of Madrid has also
been publishing vigorous comments on
the Congress.
One OF the latest communications re-
ceived at the State Department is from
Minister Fred Grant. 1t is a long article
from the Vienna Fremdenbldtt, the or
gan of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Austria-H Hungry. 1t says The United
States Government has invited all the
governments of the New World to take
part in Congress to be held in Wash
ington under the watchword of United
America and especially America Unit
ed against Europe Uniform weights,
measures and coinage are to be intro
duced, a court of arbitration appointed
to settle all disputes between American
States. encrOachments of European
States in connection with American
affairs are to be jointly opposed, and the
most important of all, uniform tariff Of
rates of customs duties is to be estab-
lished. That the success of Mr.. Blaine's
device" the article continues, "would be
of great and disagreeable consequences
to Europe Ia easily understood. Europe
ships large part of it's manufactures to
South America, and our own Austrian
producers we'll know the value of their
Brazilian and Argentine customers, who
purchase their china, glass, paper, fancy
goods, shoes and other articles exported
to those countries. Ifthose ports should
be closed to us by tariff rates as high as
those of the United States, a large part
of our workmen and a still larger part of
German, French and English laboring
men would be in danger of losing their
employment. There is, therefore, every
reason for rejecting seriously regarding
this matter, and for not dismissing it as
being too far removed. 1t would be a
serious loss to Europe If the politicians
of Washington should succeed in uniting
the whole American continent, not in a
single free territory, but in territory
surrounded by insurmountabe customs
barriers. America for Americans is the
Monroe doctrine. America for the
North Americans is tie doctrine OF
Blame. We cannot believe that the peo'
pie of Mexico, Brazil, the La Plata, and
other Latin States will ever submit tC
this" The Vienna paper goes on to say
that the States to the South Of the Unit
ed States are not likely 10 submit to the
wishes of these mlllionaires of the I'm
ion. 1t follows up this statement by
giving them advice as to where they
shall sell their raw material and buy fin
ished products. and urges them not to
attempt to change their present Euro
pean trade routes, for fear these Ameri
cans will take undue advantage of them
A prominent American diplomatist
said last night 1.-The comments of pa
pers in three of the principal capitals OF
Europe are not the only ones that could
be quoted, but they are enough to show
that the commercial interests of Europe
are waking up to the Importance of the
coming Congress, and are attempting by
all means, fair and unfair, to prejudice
it throughout all the European coun'
tries"