The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-21
More Important and Far Reach
ing Than the Attack On
TERRITORY.
United States No Longer Mere
Jy the Worlds Granary.
A Menace to Manufacturing In
terests Everywhere.


ment of state, under the direction of
Mr.. Frederick Emory. While present
ing elaborate statistics and data on the
increase of this trade the world over,
the subject is also treated broadly to
bring out the general significance of
this trade development which Mr. EN-
DRY refers to as IAN American invasion
of the markets of the world
Although no reference is made to re-
cent geographical and political changes
resulting from the appearance of the
United States in the Philippines in Gu
ba, in Porto Rico and elsewhere, yet
the review deals with the important
part which American enterprise and
capital are taking in the development
of the far east. In his introduction to
the work, Mr.. Emory says:
THE United States is no longer the
granary of the world merely. While
it's exports of agricultural products has
increased to a remarkable extent dur
ing the past year its sales abroad of
manufactured goods have continued to
extend with a facility and promptitude
of results which have excited the seri-
Gus concern of countries that for gen
eratiOns had not only controlled their
home markets, but had practically mo-
nOpolized certain lines of trade in 9TH
er lands. When we consider that this
result has been reached with COMPARE
tive ease in spite of added impedi-
ments to United States exports in the
form of Determinations of various
kinds and Notwithstanding that orga-
nized efforts to reach foreign markets
for our manufactures, is as yet in it's
infancy the ability of the United States
to compete successfully with the most
advanced industrial nations in any
part of the world, as we'll as with those
nations in their home markets, can no
longer be seriously questioned"
The attention which foreign govern
ments have given to this rapid increase
of American trade is discussed as fol-
lows: In view of what NAV be
termed an American invasion of the
markets of the world. the attitude of
the leading foreign nations towards
each other and the relation which their
industrial activity and trade interests
bear to the United States becomes a
matter of practical concern. The more
important incidents of the past year
in foreign diplomacy have therefore a
significance for us. which might not
have attached to them in the absence
of concerted efforts to extend the sale
of our goods. 1t may be said that the
chief business of European diplomacy
at the present day is to secure new
spheres of influence and wider oppor-
tunities for trade as we'll as suitable
territory for occupation by the over
flow of population from the more
densely inhabited countries. The world
has watched the diplomatic drama in
China with an interest which has been
heightened by the knowledge that the
practical outcome might be either the
opening of new channels of trade to
the commerce of the globe, or the ap-
preparation of them by particular ma
tions for their own special benefit.
China has for some years been one
of the most promising fields for Aneri-
can enterprise, industry and capital and
the entrance of the vast empire upon
the path of western development under
conditions which would secure equality
of opportunity to the United States
would doubtless result in immense gain
to our manufacturers in the demand
sure to follow for unes of supplies and
goods Of various descriptions that we
are fitted to provide. The solution of
the problem of the future commercial
conditions Of the Chinese empire has
therefore, an immediate and most i'm
pOrtant relation to the expansion of our
export trade, especially that of our Pa
cific slope. The partition of Africa
among the European powers offers con-
sideration of an economic character of
almost equal magnitude, while the
plans of the more active commercial
nations, for increasing their respective
shares of the trade of the Latin-Ameri-
can markets affects US even more ser
iOusly in the development of our COM
mercial intercourse with the southern
half of the western hemisphere.
1.-The liberalization of the United
States so far as industry and CONNER
cial interests are concerned has in fact
been made a thing of the past by the
logical change in our economic require
ments and we can no longer afford to
disregard international rivalries, now
that we ourselves have become a COM
petitor in the worldwide struggle for
trade
1t is shown also that international
conditions in many of the foreign cOun-
tries are bringing about important
economic changes which affect the
trade of the United States. In this con-
nection Mr. Emory says:
Nor is it with the relation of the
different nations towards one another
that we are alone concerned. The in
dustrial changes current within the
territory of each obtain a new and
much graver Importance in their pos
sible effect upon our nascent develop
ment as an exporter of manufactured
goods. The conditions contributing to
the rapid growth of manufactures in
recent years; the fiscal changes in Rus
STA India and Japan, as well as in some
of the I,atin-American countries; the
extraordinary impulse given to the in
dustriaI and commercial growth of the
German empire as a factor of interna-
tional trade; the advance of Russia on
similar lines and the rapid progress of
the Siberian railroad towards an open
port on the Yellow sea; the efforts of
Great Britain to meet the encroach-
ments of other nations; the decline of
the sugar industry in the West Indies
as a result of the beet sugar industry;
the troubles of Spain with her colonies:
the discovery of gold in Alaska and the
adjacent territory in British Columbia;
the tariff legislation of the United
States and Canada, and other countries
all the phases of economic changes
during the past year have an interest
and importance for the Individual OPP
erative in the United States which are
greatly enhanced by the tranSforma-
ton now going on in our Industrial life,
converting US slowly but surely from a
people absorbed with the internal de-
VelODment of a virgin continent into