Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-07-22
ITS new COMMERCIAL POSITION
NO LONGER SIMPLY THE "GRANARY
OF THE WORLD"
Exports of Agricultural Products Not
Only Increasing Amazingly, but
Its Sales Abroad of Manu-
factured Goods Are
Extending

under the direction of Mr.. Frederick En-
CRY. 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 signiii-
cance 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 result
ing from the appearance Of the United
States in the Philippines. in Cuba. in Porto
Rico and elsewhere. yet the review deals
with the more important par. which the
American enterprise and capital is taking
in the development of the far East.
In his introduction to the work Mr.. Em-
ory says: - r-.
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
past year, its sales abroad of manufactured
goods have continued to extend with
facility and promptitude Of results which
have excited the serious concern Of coun-
tries that, for generations. had not only
controlled their home markets, but had
practically monopolized certain lines Of
trades in other lands.
When we consider that this result has
been reached with comparative ease. IN
spite of added impediments to United
States exports in the from Of discrtmina-
tions Of various kinds and notwithstanding
that organized effort to reach foreign mar
kets for our manufactures is as yet in its
infancy, the ability Of the United States to
compete successfully with the most ad-
vanced industrial nations in any part of
the world. as well as with those nations
in their home markets, can no longer be
seriously questioned" -..., ..-.
The attention which foreign governments
have given to this rapid increase OF Amer
lean trade is discussed as follows:
In view of what may be termed an
American invasion of the markets of the
world, the attitude Of the leading CONNER
relations which their industrial activity
and trade interests bear to the United
States become a matter OF practical con-
"The more important incidents of the past
year In foreign diplomacy have, Therefore,
night not have attached to them in the
afsenee of concerted efforts to extend the
sale of our goods. 1t may be said that the
the present day is to secure new spheres
of influence and wider opportunities for
trade. as well as suitable territory for oc-
the more densely inhabited countries. The
world has watched the progress of the Dip
lomatic drama in China with an interest
knowledge that the PRACTICAL outcome
might be either the opening of new chan
nels OF trade to the commerce of the globe.
nations for their own special benefit.
China has for some years been one of
the most promising fields for American en-
terprise, industry and capital, and the en-
trance Of the vast empire upon the path of
Western development under conditions
which would secure equality of opportun-
ity to the United States would doubtless
'ers in the demand, sure to follow, for lines
of supplies and goods of various descrip-
tions that we are fitted to provide. -
The solution of the problem Of the fu-
empire has. therefore. an immediate and
most important relation to the expansion
OF our export trade, especially that
of our Pacific slope. The partition of Afri
siderations Of an economic character of
almost equal magnitude, while the
plans OF the more active CONNER
shares Of the trade of the Latin-American
markets affects US even more seriously in
the development of our commercial inter
ern hemisphere. The Observation-Disclosures
OF the United States, SO far as industry
and commerce are concerned, has: in fact.
been made thing of the past by the logic
of the change in our economic require
ments, and we can no longer afford to dis
regard international rivalries, nov that we
worldwide struggle for trade"
1t is shown also that international condi-
tions 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: =,
ent nations toward one another that we are
alone concerned. The industrial changes
current within the territory of each obtain
a new and graver importance in their pos
sible effect upon our nascept 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 :
American countries; the extraordinary
impulse given, to the Industrial and COM
mercia1 growth Of the German empire as a
Of Russia on similar lines, and the
rapid progress of the Siberian rail-
road toward an open port on the
Yellow sea: the efforts of Great Britain to
meet the encroachments of other nations;
the decline of the sugar industry in the
competition: the troubles of Spain with her
colonies; the discovery of gold in Alaska
and the adjacent territory in British Column
bia: the tariff legislation of the United
States, Canada and other .countries-alI
the phases of economic changes during the
for the individual operative In the United
States which are greatly enhanced by the
transformation now going on in our indus
trial life. converting US slowly but surely
development of a virgin continent into one
of the great commercial powers OF the
world. with the international interests and
responsibilities. which such position nat
urally implies
NJ u,ifh a he ri eS