Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-09

probably not the only one which induced
the British government TO secure at as
early a date as npssible the abrOgation OF
a commercial treaty with Germany or
Considerations OF sentiment alone. such
as the advocates of imperial federation
trpbituaIly deal in. can hardly be sup
posed TO have affected the Judgment of a
government in which a successful manu-
facturer ana man of affairs like Joseph
Chamberlain plays SO conspicuous and in
fiuential a role. Englishmen OF the
Chamberlain variety may be visionary
at times; they are rarely so in matters of
trade
Attention has frequently been drawn in
the columns of The Tribune to the enor-
nous strides made within the last twenty
years by Germany in every field of com
merce and manufactures. BY no coun-
try has this been realized more keenly
! than by Great Britain. Its trade papers
| nave teemed of late with protests and
! complaints It's political economists
sounded warning after warning. Yet her
statesmen seemed content to follow in
the old ruts. The cry of alarm uttered by
the British merchant did not disturb
them. For al! that, it has come none too
soon. Here. taken at random from
among a mass of similar letters. Is the
plaintiye tale told recently by the Colom-
bo correspondent of The British Trade
Journal English manufacturers. he
says must not lose sight of the fact
that the markets of the extreme east are
constantly being lost TO German competi-
ton All Bombay, in the principal hotels
the traveller may well ask himself if nc
is on the banks of the Rhine or in city
OF india. German competition surpasses
everything Imaginable. Careful iirVesti-
CATION. among Ptrs &c. Mussulmai and
Hindo merchants has convinced us of the
immense progress made by the Germans
Ghe moment has come to take measures
10 stop them. Has England expended
millions of pounds sterling and lost mil
lions of brave people and exercised skilfu
diplomacy In order TO open to Germans
the markets of the extreme East?"
Similar testimony is furnished by Brit
ish merchants in all the colonies-in Ca
NADIA. Egypt Australia and New Zealand:
ana testimony still more striking comes
from Japan, China and Cochin China.
But worse than all, in their own coun-
try, on the sacred soil of Great Britain
iise4f, its merchants have discovered
competition in manufactured products.
winch until the present time seemed to
constitute the uncontested monopoly of
British industry. Jules Roche, a French
economist, says of this competition with
which England is suddenly confronted:
II Is not Il French army which by
night has invaded England by the Cham
mel tunnel-we have not yet reached this
poiht-but il is an invasion not the less
sacrilesious and not the less dangerous
winch has occurred. Germany has sent
to London, Manchester, Dublin and Liver
n.
what prodigy,-cotton cloths Yes cot
England" V'VV "
And then he adds:
GU can imagine without difficulty the
revolution unclaimed by this phenom
ehnn More pamphlets than ever are he
ins ISSUED, and English trade is prepar-
iHS LOT the efforts which such a situa-
tn demands and which it knows how 10
tan h, you need not doubt it,
L MS same wrfter-apd ba .op,o. r.. -.
peeteu OF bias favorable to GERMANY
s ~. up the progress made by that coun-
try as follows.
During the last Is years, while the for |
clsn commerce of the world has in
NIe'seu oy Ao00. 600 600 our own has 40 |
81 ae e py about $500 600 600 calling from
sl.W'-VoGvo to $l,4ls. coo OoD and the Ger
.,idn empire has enriched itself nv all |
t MA. whien We have lost, and even more
aoo oaa cue rising from $i470 POO 600 to s1S2t
~ az , ~ an increase of $3.50 500 CO. Some
er ~ IA INDUSTRIES have experienced an in |
creaiDie development It's man,,fae,u.n.
~, .nem.icai products have possession az |
- Ii. hets, It's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in |
1920 Produces 5000 600 TO 10 0Oo Ooo |
, 80 ~ iron and steel: its export Of coal |
III. LIS t,s. cotton goods and iron increa ses |
~ me eauinoctial tide; its port Of HAM
vari "nere 10 years ago / saw the firet
act;,ra ~ ~ Improvement. has become 50
the oai ia. y, today. surpasses Liverpool
,,ars ...eieprdted port of the Mersev-hy
,,,,rs.i tnan 100000 tons in the comparativs
m,ar .;iie movement of 1895. / IA not
W,rse;,,' ails! our unfortunate mort ~
nn,,, es, ~ would require two of thor,
ny ITO TO equal Hamburg ''e''i
do,,si.. men II seems to us is ono of ~
motives of Lord Salisbury's