The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-26

T sojourn in Europe, Senator
- Depew is home with a gem
erous budget of news, opin-
ion and euess-work which. you may be
sure, is duly set forth and embellshed
in the New York papers.
There is, he reports. a genuine scare
on the continent about the competition
Of American manufacturers in the con-
tinontal markets, and cabinets are con-
sulting If any combination to check II
and TO keep down American COMPETE
tion in the Far East is practicable.
I'VE are coming to be idered
common enemy, TO the extent that we
actually supplant foreign manufacture
ers, and this feeling is intensified by
every concern which goes bankrupt, or
reduces wages, or lays off a portion of
its employees, ascribing it all to Ameri-
can competition. This unfricndlineSs, ="
in the senator's judgment, "is not likely
to result in war. The relations of Euro
pean governments are too intricate and
uncertain among themselves for any
one to take that risk, and combination
is impossible An industrial defensive
and offensive alliance against us has
insuperable difficulties. But we must
expect each country to put in practice
every device to keep our product out"
AS an illustration he cites the case OF
the police of Vienna, who looked the
other way while native shoemakers
mobbed warehouse opened by an
American rival. And he adds: 1T was
interesting TO note the intense interest
and pleasure in the steel strike and the
threatened one in the New England cot
ton mills. The newspapers were jubi-
liant in their editorials. They predicted
the extension OF the labor troubles to
all industries. They claimed that the
contest was the inevitable outcome of
the trusts, and that home troubles
would postpone for years the Yankee
industrial invasion and conquest"
Mr.. Depew found in England a most
genial welcome, unmstakabe evil
dences of an unusual cordialty in Brit
ish sentiment respecting America and
a widespread opinion among the more
intelligent classes that we should have
our way about the Nicaragua canal, to
build, own and control it; but that
treaties should be abrogated as they
are made, by the diplomatic formal
tiles and agreements common among
friendly powers.
There is in the senator's interview
one apprehensive note. lie saws:
Europe has just grasped the full
meaning of the Monroe Doctrine and
unanimously resents it. The old World
wants larger trade with South Amer
lea, coalng stations for fleets on this
side OF the ocean, both in the Atlantic
ano Pacific, and free hand for pro-
lection of citizens and commerce in the
several states of the isthmus and South
America. On this they are all agreed
Ind ready to act. and cannot under
itand.that the, Monroe Doctrine is as
much part of the settled policy OF
he United States as its constitution.
The railroads in South America have
oeen built with foreign money, and
mines are developed and worked, docks
Ind warehouses constructed banks or
yanized and run, and every enterprise
capitalized and made possible by the
avishy investment Of English, German,
french and Italian capital The amount
uns irto tremendous figures, and these
ToverTments are alert for their citizens
and u leir rights, If We ever have seri-
ous trouble it is more likely to come
from our fixed purpose on this ques-
ton than from eastern complications
or commercial rivalries."
Misrepresentation of the European
point Of view in reference to South
American affairs should admonish
Americans that they must either drop
the Monroe Doctrine or carry it through
20 it's logical limit by undertaking so
thoroughly 10 police all South Ameri-
san countries ir time of revolutionary
disturbance that foreign nations and
interests viii he satisfied 10 look TO us
Ar thA protection thsv would other