Arizona republican., 1899-09-02
American Competition Disturbs
Their Trade.
MANUFACTURERS WARNED
Interesting Extracts From fhe Re.
ports OF Chambers OF Commerce
on This Poinf-ComplainfSH Hbout
the Effects of thc DlngIey Tariff.
From German Trade and Ffanu-
featuring CenferS.

Washington, Sept Germany
seems to be very much alarmed over
the prosperity in the United States,
and the serious competition of this
country with German manufactures
and agricultural products. The va
rious chambers of commerce have in
their last reports sounded warming
to the German manufacturers Of the
danger which threatens them. Vice
Consul General Hanauer at Frank
fort, recently made an especially in
teresting report in this connection.
The annual reports of the chambers
of commerce, Mr.. Hanauer says. are.
received by the manufacturing and
financial. classes. in Germany with
great interest, and have the inpor-
tance of the findings of an expert COM
mission. In Europe generally, and
more especially in Germany cham
6ers of commerce exercise grea1 in
fiIs,.ce i: political and uiarcautile af- S
fairs. They are efficiently consti-
tIted. have large staff Of able and
well-traired officials and are frequent
ly called upon by the goyernmen. to
inquire into matters appeartaining 10
internal improvements or bearing on
the foreign policy of the nation.
The following extracts are from the
report for 1898 of the chamber of
commerce at Frankfort:
''For years past the United States
of America has been one of the most
important trading fields. The culti.
vation of this field has become the
greatest of cur eneonomae anxieties.
and the most thorough and liberal ex-
animation should be given the matter
ere we apply tariff measures to this
country or treat it in a politico-eco-
nomic way.
'tTo day the United States looms up
as the greatest producer of breadstuffs
and with all the factors of gigantic
development in mental production. 1t
has already attained such a position
in all branches of industrial power as
TO enable it to boldly take up the
gauntlet of competition in the inter
national arena. Germany has no
special treaty with the United States;
the MISREPRESENTATION clause is the
basis cf the mutual trade, but this
presupposes that both nations main-
tain toward each other such tariffs as
not to make the exchange of goods
prohibitory. The Dingley tariff has
affected German exports inimically-
Germany's imports from the United
States in 1898 exceeded those of the
previous year in twenty-five leading
lines, whereas she exported to the
United States considerably less in
twenty important lines than in 1897.
The question arises, Is the most
clause without
tariff reduction on the part of the
United States of any value to us?''
The report, adds Mr.. Hanauer. no.
tices the increasing imports from the
United States cf building timber and
woods for manufacture of furniture,
saying that pitch pine. Carolina pine.
and other woods are much
in demand and have a regular market
in Germany Complaint is made
about the unsatisfactory state of the
German bicycle manufacture, which is
said to have suffered severely from the
of American makes of
cheap sort.
The report of the Dresden chamber
Of commerce says, in part:
Though Great Britain occupies first
place in German import statistics,
these imports, mainly consisting OF
raw and finished materials, attracts
little notice But the competition Of
he United States, especially in finish
ed industrial products, stands out in
bold relief
THE American enterprises, working
with immense capital in every branch
Of trade and assisted by a corps OF
consular officials of genuine American
,leverness, operate with extraordinary
activity in all markets, including Ger
many Owing to these advantages,
md in consequence of the advance in
;pecializing and subdividing the man
fracture of articles, the United States
S enabled to sell at lower prices,
hough paying higher wages than its
European rivals.
with the exception of few lines.
,ur trade with the United States in
S9S was unfavorable. The Spanish
Imerican war acted as an extinguish-
+ to the export of many German in
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