The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-02
A LION IN UNCLE SANS PATH.

The United States have two quarreis
on their hands. The first is the tariff,
the purpose Of Europe to unite against
this r~apacious, high tariff tax country.
1t is sure TO come. The Germans and
Russians are moving in this i'm
portant matter. The German empire
is to have a new tariff and it will not
be constructed with reference TO the
interest and welfare of these United
States and their huge, high Chinese
wall arrangement The biggest fraud
of this time is his tariff. To give q
recent illustrative incident take the
row in Vienna. Austria, over the sale OF
Yankee foot-gear. The shoes, etc., OF
our country can be made so cheaply
and we'll III they can be taken 5000
niles away and sold in a great capital
of an old historic nation at less figures
than the homemade gear. But the
American grab-alls-the high protec-
ton fctionlsts must have a high tax
on all foreign shoes, boots, ETC., to en-
al these rascals to compete with for
eien cheap labor. What frauds, What
a. outrage upon American consumers
In Germany protection will be tried
as in Russia The farmers are to be
protected A majority of the news
papers hail the new tariff with glad
ness. It is an effort to feed the Amer
leans out of the same ugly spoon that
has been long used by greedy Ameri-
cons in administering to the Germans
and others in Europe. 1t may De a
wise. necessary measure. or it may be
Jsurd. If it be true that GERMANY
en- not raise it's food supply, then to
tax foreign supplies is to injure and
burden the eaters. The Baltimore Sun
notes that the new German strike-back
does not tickle the hungry, unconscion-
able American protectionists. 1t says,
and it is a fair hit and well put:
Imitation. it has been said, is the
sincerest form of fiattery. The German
tariff bill is essentially such a meas
ure as American protectionists declare
to be b cause OF the prosperity the
American people enjoy. Logically,
therefore, it Should have received the
unqualified Endorsement Of the protec-
tionists Of this country. 1t proposes to
do for Germany what our Dingley act
4i1S uIhS W 1lS eIS, uOlle "
the United States. It's purpose is to
give German farmers control of their
home market. Just as in the United
States the interests of our manufac-
turers are consulted by those who
frame our tariff laws. The German
manufacturer is, also to be protected
by his government when the new
tariff bill is enacted into law. Cur
protectionists ought to feel proud and
happy that the ideas which they have
so eng and SO earnestly championed
have been appropriated by the enter
prisinS Germans"
The other trouble waiting soon or late
the American government is of anoth-
ed kind than taxation or tariffs of re-
taliation. 1t is to come out OF the Mon
roe doctrine, an absurd n dangerous
principle at this late day if it is attempt
ed by the United States to enforce It
against all comers-aI the leading Eu-
ropean powers. An attentive reading
of European opinion will awaken in
terest and apprehension as to the flu
ture. That Germany means to eX-
tends Its colonization schemes
IN South America is we'll known to
those who study European discussion.
The British thought that Germany's eX-
pansion of the navy meant it to be
preparation fer future dealing with
Great Britain. The we'll known un-
friendliness of the German press and
the plain talking of the Chancellor
have been thought to be a menac to
Great Britain. But the Kaiser's plans
are of another kind, lie in quite anoth-
er direction. His plan and purpose in
insisting upon creating a great navy
are now understood t o have reference
to South America and the Monroe doc
trine. So we'll informed and able a
weekly as the old london Saturday
Review recently said this in consider
ing Kaiser Williams projects in his
great navy expansion:
He has seen that the richest and
most accessible field for the develop
ment of German energy and emigra-
ton lies in South America. But over
that vast and little exploited continent
hangs the shadow of the Monroe doc
trine, and in that must lie the supreme
to German expansion. Like II
wise ruler he prepares for the future
1t says shat our country knows some
thing Of the Kaiser's plans, for it has
instructed its foreign consuls to fun
nish fullest particulars of the German
colonization in South America. II
this country intends to resist these at
tempts it will not only have one formi-
dable war on its hands, but it will in
all probability have to engage one or
more other nations. What business or
right is it for the United States to be-
come the guardian and protector of a
continent as great as our own, and in
some important particulars more i'm
portant and inviting? 1t is a wonder
full, undeveloped. magnificent country.
The great London weekly says, and it
is very Instructive:
1t is provided by nature with water
avs OF unparalleled extent. The
AmaZon can be traversed for 5000
miles, the La Plata for 1000, LOCO