Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-22
AMERICAN TRADE EXPANDING
Manufactures Now Form a Considerable Part
Of the Exports.
ATTRACTS ATTENTION OF FOREIGNERS
United States Has Ceased to BE Simply
the Grnnury of the World
Opportunities for Fur
Their Increase.

WASHINGTON, July 21.-The remarkable
advance of the United States into the
markets of the world is presented in n
publication just issued from the Bureau of
Foreign Commerce, Department of State,
under the direction of Frederick Emory.
While presenting 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.. Emory refers
to as IAN American invasion of the markets
of the world" Although no reference is
made to recent geographical and political
changes resulting from the appearance of
the United States in the Philippines. in
Cuba, Porto Rico and elsewhere. vet the
review deals with the important part which
American enterprise and capital is taxi
ing in the development of the far east.
In MS introduction to the work Mr.. Emory
says:
The United States is no longer the
granary of the world" merely. While its
exports of agricultural products have in
creased to a remarkable extent during the
last year, its sales abroad of manufactured
goods have continued to extend with a
FACILITY and promptitude of results which
nave exclted the serious concern of countries
MAJ, Tor generations mad not only con-
tfHlled their home markets, but had
practically monopolize1 certain lines os
trade in other lands. When we consider
that this result has been reached with
comparative ease in spite of added impedi-
ments to United States exports in the form
or discrimination of various kinds, and, not
withstanding that organized effort to reach
foreign markets for our manufactures is as
yet in its infancy, the ability of the United
States to compete successfully with the
most advanced industrial nations in any
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lions in their home markets, can no longer
be seriously questioned.
Attracts Foreign Attention.
The attention which foreign governments
have given to this rapid increase of Ameri-
can trade is discussed as follows:
In view of what may be termed an Ameri-
can invasion of markets of the world, the
attitude of the leading commercial nations
toward each other and the relations which
their industrial activity and trade inter
ests bear to the United States become a
matter or practical concern. The more i'm
portant incidents of the last year in foreign
diplomacy have, therefore, a signifcapce for
us which might not have attached to them
IN the absence of concerted efforts to extend
the sale or our goods. 1t may be said that
the chief business of European diplomacy
at the present day is to secure new 'spheres
or influence and wider opportunities for
trade, as we'll as suitable territory for oc-
cupation by the overflow of population from
the more densely inhabited countries. The
world has watched the progress of the
diplomatic drama in Cuba with interest,
which has been heightened by the knowl-
edge that the practical outcome might be
either the opening of new channels of trade
TO the of the globe or the appro-
priation of them by particular nations for
their own special benefit.
CHINA has for some years been one OF the
most promising fields for American enter
prise, industry and capital and the entrance
of the vast empire upon the path of west
ern development under conditions which
would secure equality of opportunity to the
United States would doubtless result in i'm
mense gain to our manufacturers in the
demand sure to follow for lines 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 en-
pire has, therefore, an immediate and most
important relation to the expansion of our
export trade, especially that of our Pacific
slope. The partition of Africa among the
European powers offers considerations of an
economic character of almost equal magni-
tude, while the plans of the more active
commercial nations for increasing their re-
spectlye shares of the trade of the Latin
American markets affected us even more
seriously in the development of our com
mercial intercourse with the southern half
of the western hemisphere. The enter
naturalization" of the United States, so far
as industry and commerce are concerned,
has, In fact, been made a thing OF the past
by the logic of the change in our economic
requirements, and we can no longer afford
TO disregard international riyairies, now that
we ourselves have become a competitor In
the wide struggle for trade.
Works Economic Changes.
It is shown also that international con-
ditions in many of the foreign countries are
bringing about important economic changes
which affect the trade of the United States.
In this connection Mr.. Emory says:
Nor Is it with the relations of the differ
ent nations toward one another that we are
alone concerned. The industrial changes
current within the territory OF each obtain a
new and much graver importance in their
possible effect upon our recent development
as an exporter of manufactured goods. The
conditions contributing to the rapid growth
OF manufactures In recent years-the fiscal
changes In Russia, India and Japan, as
well as In some of the Latin countries; the
extraordinary impulse given to the in
dustrial and commercial growth OF the Ger
man empire as a factor of international
trade; the advance of Russia on similar
lines and the rapid progress Of the Siberian
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