The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-21
GERMANY GROWING JEALOUS.
SHE DOES NOT LIKE TO BE OUT
STRIPPED IN TRADE.

Balance of Trade In Favor of the
United states and Against Ger
many Has Been So Large of Late,
That Germany VIII Probably Seek
Remedy i'm Tariff Liquidation.
New Tariff VIII Modify Her Trade
Relations.
Washington, May 20.-Under cover OF an
annual report on the trade relations of
Germany. Consul General Mason, at Ber-
lin. has published in the volume of Com
mercial Relations. issued from the Bureau
of Foreign Commerce. state department.
some exceedingly important statements
relative to the present conditions govern
ing trade between Germany and the
United States. Still more IMPORTANT are
the predictions made by Mr.. Mason as
to the treatment Germany 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 duties 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 as German merchants have come 10
the conclusion that this prosperity is at
tributable entirely to the United States
tariff laws, and arguing that similar
policy could not fail to benefit Germany
they propose a revision of their tariff on
the line of a general and heavy increase
OF duties, especially upon imports 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 Ger
man exports to the United States Com
plants are made against Germans acting
as agents for the sale of American or
English goods, and conditions are being
imposed to discourage the taking of for
eign pupils In German technical schools.
The report also treats of the growth In
the German trade in the East. resulting
from the new policy of the government
and its determination to obtain a share
of what the farsighted statesmen recog-
nze as the chief commercial prize OF the
twentieth century. the trade of China
German trade with China has increased
70 per cent in the last four years and
German capital is being invested with an
audacity which should serve as an ex-
ample TO Americans seeking foreign trade.
Things Government May Do.
In conclusion, and recurring to the sub
ject of relations between the United
States and Germany in the future, Mr..
Mason has this TO say:
There is therefore every probability
that the new tariff and such amended spe-
cial treaties as Germany may consent to
enact will modify essentially the CONNER
cial relations of the Empire with other
nations, particularly with the United
States. 1t is not to be denied or overlook
ed that while the attitude of the imperial
government toward our country has been
uniformly correct, there is In certain bus
mess circles here a feeling of enmity and
| resentment which did not exist prior to
1888 The heavy balance of trade which
| the United States now holds against the
| fatherland, the decline in textiles. and
| the sharpened customs regula-
| tons against AUTHORIZATIONS, the
! concessions recently granted to France
ond, above all iqhe enormous growth of
American manufacture exports, the ag-
gressive competition of American metal
and other products in South American
and Eastern markets-all these weigh
heavily on the hearts of the people here,
| and will be- heard from when the new tar
| if treaties come TO open debate in the
| Rechstag. What most enlightened think
! ers expect or at least hope for is that
| broad, liberal. comprehensively framed
| treaty, or series of treaties, between the
United States and Germany in which all
| the vexed and irritating questions relat-
| ing to naturalized citizenship, counter
! vailing duties and port charges on vessels
| shall be regulated. and liberal justice TO
| imports of food products secured by re-
| ciprocal concessions, and embodied in per-
| manent conventions between the two coun-
| tries.
Rivals and competitors in foreign fields
South American, Africa and Asia-the
Union and the German empire will al
ways be, but this is no reason why the
two nations should not be, in their direct
relations with each other, harmonious
and mutually consderate, and this result
can be I'm no way so effectively promoted
as by an INTELLIGENT revision of obsolete
treaties and their adjustment to modern
requirements and conditions"
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