The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-09
GERMANY TO rHB rpoN,r


The recent performances 90 A. a+.o.,,aa
Deutchiand In breaking all previous
records of transatlantic. travel both
eastward and westward, directs attention
to the advances which are hsing n,ada Il,
Germany in the ship sbni1d,ne, Industry
We are disposed to congratulate our
selves on the great gains we have made
in the same direction; but bv comma rison
we have done but little. Germany. both
in the construction. of war ships and Of
vessels for the merchant marine service.
is today ahead ofeany, nation in the
world, in point OF present progress.
Under the inspiration of the tireless
energy of the young emperor. Germany
is making giant strides along the path
to commercial and industrial greatness.
In no direction is her progress more
manifest than in naval construction.
There are ten we'll equipped shipya7ds
in Germany today, where few years ago
there were but one Or two; and they are
capable of. turning out vessels the equal
in every way of the two renlal kab,e yes-
sells which have succeeded in SURPRISING
everything ROW afloat on the Atlantic
ocean in point of speed and equipment.
The Deutschland and the Kaiser Wilhelm
are unapproackable today, ana will
probably reraia unapL roacl able until W
have seen another product OF a German
shipyard constructed on the same lines.
And it will be but a short time until we
have seen such product, if tie prevail
ing reports arc not unfounded.
1t is but a short time since the reading
public on both Sides o, the Atlantic read
with absorbing interest of the perform
ances of the Campania and ce tain G. hers
of the ocean greyhounds. The best the
Campania could do under the most favor
able conditions is surpassed easily by
the results of an ordinary trip of one of
the German vessels named. The last trip
of the Deutchland to this SIDE was ac-
conplisbed in five days, twelve hoii1s AID
twei-t s-n:ne m:nuses. The last tip made
by the Campania, made in the same di-
rection, consumed five Ndays, seventeen
five hours longer than the record of the
Deutchland
Germany is forging ahead as one of
the greatest of commercial nations. Her
present policy is directed toward winning
that position of enlinence on tie seas
which she now enjoys. in land armament.
Nor are hor energies confined to battle
ship constructions. Within a few years
she will have taken opposition in foreign
shipping next to England, q position
which not all the wisdom or foresight Ct
all the rulers of Germany in the past has
enabled them to forecast. Her manu-
features are crowding out the products
of England in many coveted market.
Her cutlery has been on sale in Shelf
field at figures which IKE domestic pro-
duct could not meet, and such results are
not confined by any means to any one
given product. The word will soon have
to deal with the Germans as one of the
greatest OF the celonfzing and trading ma
tons Whether they will ever succeed IN
taking commercial -ascendancy from the
English may be open to5iser.ous question.
This much at least is true: Much as we
may boast. of our progress in getting
control OF foreign markets for our manu-
featured products, we are today giving
the merchants and manufactu; ers of
England FAR less concern than they are
bestowing on their German competitors.