Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-04
AMERICAS WORLD CONQUEST.
The Splendid Commercial Tr1umphs OF
Free and Progressive People,

Tho 'conqu st of the world by the Unit
ed States" which a well-known French
publicist has Just written about in a Paris
paper appears to be an exceedingly live
topic In Europe at tho present time, says
the St Louis Globe Democrat. 1t is a lit
tie over a GEAR since Count Gomchow, ski
the Austrian Minister OF Foreign Affairs,
sounded the alarm in Europe against the
ncursonS of American commodities Ac-
cording to that statesman the Old World
must combine commercially against the
United States If it Is to maintain any out
side markets for its surplus products The
United States, he declared, in substance,
was making inroads in all territory which
mad hitherto been commercially tributary
10 England, France, Germany, Austria,
and the rest of Europe and the situation
demanded the earnest and immediate at
tention of the Old Worlds Statesmen. The
wide circulation which Count Goluchow-
skis warning received in the press of
France, Germany, Russia, and other Eu-
ropoan countries showed that that politi-
clan had struck one of the burning issues
of the tine
! To the Frenchman, howey er. the danger
from American competition is far more
imminent and portentous than ii appeared
TO the Austrian to be. Not only is the
United States seizing the best OF the Old
worlds markets in Asia and South Amer
lea, but it is invading the European coun-
tries themselves. The enemy is already
at their own doors. I'm less then eighteen
years he declares. american exporta-
lions haze trpled. II is no more Ma
Iol"on's conquest of the world by arms
The Yankees are doing it by work The
United States can ruin Europe CONNER
cidlly as effectually as if with arms "
Then he goes on to say that "a revolution
in the economic equilibrium of the globe
ls being brought about by the United
lpuDn n 10 nri
lands nose with the introduction into
CFina and japan of American cottuns,
feathers. machines. tools, and electric
motors" OF course the list of the Ameri-
can goods which are superseding Euro
pean products in Asia. and even In the
European countries themselves, would te
long. 1t would. if enumerated be a sort
lot roll-call of the most distinctive COM
moditieS Of the United States.
Bnt the query which arises here is, How
can Europe prevent this American com
mercial conquest of the world? The Unit
cd states has not only more capital than
any European country. but it has greater
business intelligence and resource fulness.
The qualities by which America has not
only won leading place in the neutral
markets of the Old World, but has even
surmounted the barriers of hostile tariffs
and is getting foothcld In the home
markets OF the principal European coun-
and increase this Vantage ground. The
assumptio which was implied by the Aus
trian statesman that Europe could be
brought to concerted action against tho
Urited States is Il fantastic dream There
are as many different sorts Of tariffs and
revenue laws in Europe as there are coun-
tries, and ii is as impossible to secure
commercial unity among them as it would
he political unity. There IL no Europe.
but there IS an America The European
concert is a Tinster joke" These words
of Italy's ex-Premier, Crispi. just after
the destruction of the Spanish fleet al
Manila, when many tindd persons in Eu-
rope thought that Spain might be inyad-
ed, and thus all the rest of Europe
meaced, showed that that astute states
man sias?ed the folly of attempting to
build up a European coalition against any
thing. Americas commercial conquests
are tho triamphs of free and progress
sire people, and are a splendid tribute to
the benefcent influence of democracy