The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-30
FACTORIES LEAD ALL
Official Reports Show the Amer
lean Advancement.
BITTER FIGHT COMING
METHODS OF UNITED STATES
BEING COPIED ABROAD.

Washington, san. 29.-The president
today transmitted to the senate a COM
municatiOn from the secretary of
state, accompanying the annual report
upon the foreign relations of the Unit
ed States. The president himself takes
advantage of the opportunity to ex-
press his commentator of the consular
reports. He says in his message of
transmittal.
The advance in the general eff
cheney of our consular service in pro
noting trade, which was noted in my
message of March /. 1900. transmitting
the reports for 1893, was even more
marked last year. The promptitude
with which the consular reports were
printed and distributed. the generous
recognition which is being increasing
~ accorded by our business interests
TO the practical value of their efforts
for charging trade, and the continued
testimony of competent foreign au-
thOrities to the general superiority of
their commercial work. have naturally
had a stimulating effect upon the con-
Sular corps as a whole. and experience
in the discharge of their duties adds
greatly TO their efficiency Tt is graft
flying to be able to state that the i'm
proYement in the service following
closely upon the steady progress in ex-
pediting the publication of reports, has
enabled the department of state this
year TO submit the annual reports a
month in advance of the usual time.
and to make them as nearly as pOssi-
bic a cOntempOTaneOUs picture of the
trade of the world -
The president cCncurs in the secre-
tary's recommendation for the printing
of additional copies of the publication.
4 ,E
ed by the United States in the direction
of opening up and extending markets
abroad is presented in the letter from
Secretary Hay, which accompanies the
annual publication known as CONNER
cial Relations of the United States
With Foreign Countries" tits IS fol-
lows:
Department of State, Washington,
Jan 20. 1901.
The President-In accordance with
section 2G8 of the revised statutes
nave the honor 10 transmit the COM
mercial relations Of the United States
with foreign countries during the year
1900, being the annual and other re-
ports OF a comprehensive character
from the consular officers, together
with similar reports from some of the
diplomatic officers, upon the industries
ana commerce of foreign countries.
These reports were prepared under
ment, with the object of laying before
congress with the least delay d praC-
tically cOntemporaneous statement of
the trade, not only of the United
States with the rest of the world but
of the various cOun tries with each 9TH
err This object, 1 am happy to be able
TO say, has been accomplished the da te
of transmission to congress this year
having been advanced over the usual
time by month, and realizing the ut
most conditions of prOmptitude com
patlDle with proper analysis of the
latest returns for the year 1900. So
gratifying a. result indicates continued
improvement in the activity and zeal
of our consular officers. as we'll as in
the system of publishing and distrib-
uting their reports.
Consular Service Better.
at may be said indeed, that while
a variety of propositions have been
under discussion for the Improvement
of the consular service. the service has
to a very considerable extent improved
itself, and is winning frequent express
sions of COMMUNICATION from business
interests which have received substan-
tial aid, not only from the published
reports, but also from the individual
efforts of consular officers to meet the
growing requirements of American in
dustTy and enterprise The practical
character of the commercial informa-
ton obtained by our consuIs and the
celebrity with which it is given to the
public continues to excite the emula-
ton of foreign governments. and dur
ing the past year steps have been TAX
en- by both Great Britain and Germany
20 engraft these features of our con-
sular work upon their consular sys-
TENS.
United States Outstripping All.
11a Il.
from a survey of the conditions in for
eign countries as described in the re-
ports herewith presented. is that the
United States is approaching even
more swiftly that was expected a posi-
ton of eminence in the worlds mar
kets, due TO superior quality and great
er cheapneSs of many lines of its manu-
features, which must work great econ
Omic changes and may result in shift
ing the center. not only of Industrial.
but of commercial activity and the
money power Of the world 10 our mar
kets. The trade indications of Ameri-
can supremacy during the past year
have been so marked that many for
eign industries, according to the re-
ports of our Consuls in Europe, are in
Producing American machinery and
labOr-saVing appliances ard remodel
ing their factory methods, and we may
except. in the near future, a more
strenuous competition. for which il is
important we should prepare our
selves. AS an aid to such equipment.
the study of the great mass of infor-
nation as to foreign industries and
trade conditions, which is to be found
in the two volumes of commercial re
latiOns, Will obviously prove must use
full to our manufacturers ana export
ers. and I, therefore, recommend that
congress be recommended TO authorize,
as was done last year, the printing of
Review of the Worlds Commerce and
5000 copies of Commercial Relations.
(Signed) JOHN HAY"