The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-05-21
GERMANY JEALOUS.
Great Growth Of Our Foreign
Trade the Cause.
A PROHIBllORY TARIFF PROBABLE.
Growing Ill Feeling Exhibited by
German Press Against the United
States-Our People Accused
of Sharp Practices.

WASHINGTON, May 21.-Under COW
er Of an annual report on the trade rela-
tons of Germany Consul General Mason
at Berlin has published Ome exceedingly
important statements relative to the pres
cnt conditions governing trade between
Germany and the United States. Still
more important are the predictions made
by Mr.. Mason as to the treatment Ger
many has in store for United States trade
at competitive points hereafter and his
warnings to Americans of the German
purpose to demand far higher import du-
ties, especially against United States
products.
Mr.. Mason says that Germany has
been paralyzed at the enormous upward
bound Of the foreign trade of the United
States, and us German merchants have
come to the conclusion that this prosper
ty is attributable entirely to the United
States tariff laws and arguing that sim
liar policy could not fail to benefit Ger
many they propose q revision of their
tariff on the line of general and heavy
increase of duties, especially upon i'm
ports from the United States.
Mr.. Mason has much to say about the
steadily growing irritation exhibited by
the German press against the United
States and the criticisms Of the trades
papers of our customs officers, who are
charged with practicing chicanery in
their efforts to prevent undervaluations
of German exports to the United States.
Complaints are made against Germans
acting as agents for the sale of American
81; oh ha-
ing imposed to discourage the taking Of
foreign pupils in German technical
schools
The report treats also of the great
growth in the German trade in the east
resulting from the new policy of the gov
eminent and its determination to obtain
a share of what the farsighted statesmen
recognize as the chief commercial prize
of the twentieth century, the trade of
China. German trade with China has
increased 10 per cent in the last four
years, and German capital is being in
vested with an audacity which should
serve as an example to Americans seek
ing foreign trade. In conclusion and recur-
ring to the subject Of relations between
the United States and Germany in the
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'"There is therefore every probability
that the new tariff and such amended
special treaties as Germany may consent
to enact will modify essentially the COM
mercal relations Of the empire with other
nations, particularly with the United
States. 1t is not to be denied or over
looked that while the attitude of the i'm
perial government toward our country has
been uniformly correct there is in certain
business circles here a feeling of enmty
and resentment which did not exist prior
to 1898. The heavy balance of trade
which the United States now holds
against the fatherland, the decline in tex
tile exports and the sharpened customs
regulations against undervaluations. the
concessions recently granted to France
and above all the enormous growth Of
American manufactured exports, the ag-
gressive competition of American metal
and other products in South American
and eastern markets-all these weigh
heavily on the heart of the people here
and will be heard from when the new
tariff and treaties come to open debate in
the reichstag.'