New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-24

ment did not lead and inspire public opinion.
1t needed and followed the unmisakabe signs
of public wrath and indignation. The German
Emperor by his indscretion. revealed to the
English Ministers the altered state Of public
feeling in relation to foreign alliances. Minis
tiers had supposed that the popular diplo
matte policy which they could adopt was that
Of keeping England on the best possible terms
with Germany That was a mistake. English
feeling has been shown to be hostile to the
Power to which the greatest Difference has been
paid by the Foreign Office since the Treaty Of
Berlin
THE GERMAN INVASION.
Why is 1t that the sklts about the Emperor
and the filings and at Germany still
set the audiences on the roar in concert hail
and theatre? IT is because those audiences are
largely recruited from the mercantile and trad
ing classes which have felt most severely the
competition Of their German rivals. Germans
have come to London during recent years In
increasing swarms. and they' have displaced
Englshmen in many branches OF employment.
The walters in the principal hotels are Ger
mans. The best cerkships in mercantile
houses are taken by Germans, owing to the
superiority of their business training and 20
their accomplishments practised linguists.
German BARRIERS are supplanting Englishmen in
fallen almost exclusively into German hands.
II is not remarkable that the concert-ha audi
ence. representing the trades classes. whose
bread has been taken out OF their mouths by
German competition are ready to laugh at
any poor joke about the Emperor.
Then. apart from these swarms of German
clerks servants and shopkeepers in England.
there is the competition in foreign trade. The
German commercial traveller is specially trained
for his business at Hamburg or elsewhere; he
speaks three or four languages. and he Is
marvel of enterprise and thrift. He has invaded
every foreign market where English wares
were once exclusively sold; he is ubiquitous
and rrepressbe; he has already secured
large share Of the trade OF South America ana
the West Indies; he has established regular
trade routes in the East Indies. China. japan
and Australia. and he has overrun the European
Continent. He has been everywhere the pioneer
Of the German wholesale merchant, whose chief
function is to undersell the English competitor
All these facts well known IN England.
1t Is Germany that is taking trade away from
English manufacturers and merchants in for
eign markets. 1t IL Germany that has succeeded
IN underselling many classes OF English goods
in the home market The German has come To
be regarded es the rival and enemy Of The
English tradesnan The ant-German songs
were popular as soon they were heard N
England. They expressed a growing ie. Eng OF
dislike for the nation which was competing
most sharply with England at home and norota'
SO far from the German alliance being popular;
as Lord Salisbury and his predecessors hau
supposed. signs were not wanting mat VAT
with the Fatherland would meet with puDnc
approval, and that blockade or the El'e
would be hailed with general delight
II. then, the Queens speech and the pohucai
leaders We're silent respecting the most I'm,
,,y'iE
y, en- made during the recent weeks OF tuTInoii
and excitement. II was not because inc an
German feeling was temporary nufrs ara H a,
sTent is force. Commercial rivairles ana a."
tf gonisms behind II. and the strength o'
this feeling which had previously been uhu'',,
rated vas accurately known. While pa'Seu
over in silence at TIE opening - Parliam' NJ
il has been & revelar! r that VIII BE- likely -
affect profoundly the future relations ~ rms,
lsl with European Powers statesmen are not
likely 10 forget that 50 Ear as the English lncT-
camille and manufacturing classes are con
oerned, Germany is the eneiny' en- he .tn,a
Russia nor France. nor America. VI me there
wae q reaction in Lord Beac nsnelds time
against the Golden policy ~ Lon-intsrvento
ard diplomatic isolation. and while ufre mas
hoen a subsequent ieyelopme nj Of Imperial In
terests on a tremendous scale the od-iiine shop
keeping spirit survives in England. and IL Is
now directed mainly agnitst "eih'tNy'
A LESSON IN ECONOMICS.
II IS not impossible, moreover, that this anti
German movement. which has brought the n.y.
ing squadron into commission, and WI involve
enormous expenditures during the next year Tor
strengthening the fleet, may also have direct
influence upon British economics. 1t Is already
a constant source Of complaint among manu-
facturcrs and merchants that the Germans
, while controlling their own market. are sys-
,ematically relieving themselves from the effects
Of over-product!lr by sending ihcii surplus 10
England and selling il at lower prices than arc
taken at home. German paper-makers, Tor ex-
ample competing successfully with hhs!sh
nd ing Of
fishers and newspaper Offices with stock. Many
other instances might be given OF the distinctive
effects OF German competition with fnghsh
manufactures
A well-known member of Parliament remarked
to me few nights ago: Il am a Free Trader OF
the most orthodox stamp, but believe thAt
1,no,and will have 4 tariff before many years
II will be an Imperial policy which the colon y
will welcome. and II Will relieve US from me eva
Of becoming a dumping ground for the over
production e German manufa'tures Anothc'
Englishmsn who has extensive sugar plantations
/ in the East Indies recently took W the same
| limo OT arPumcnt, rcuaTking. The tngilrdl
nIanters have been losing money steadily for
years because they cannot compete with Ger
I man beet sugar exported 10 tnkldnd WIN
Government bounty Why should England. after
allowing the Germans u destroy the sugar re-
fneres Of Bristol and other towns and TO throw
100000 men out OF emp yment be bent upon
running all It's sugar colonies? Why Goes IL not
set up q tariff against German sugar and give
the planters in its own tropical islands chance
10 make q living
nover of one Of the addresses yesterday In Par
lament avowed himeelf 10 be Protectionist as
well as a blmetallst The Protectionst move
Inent f. undoubtedly making progress in Eng
lard So long as the agricultural industries alone
were suffering. there was little likelihood mat II
would be taken up by the nation but now
that rnany manufacturing industries are suffer-
ing from German competition, II IS becoming
formidab bic movement The Erglfh Free
! Trader has been waiting yea after year for a
break In the tariff league against BIN. and is
/ weary Of trusting in Providence to effect some
change in the hearts Of foreigners. He r. be-
1 ginning to compare himself with the Indian who
! refused 70 go hunting while his stock Of venison
| was diminishing day By DAY. J. N i.
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