The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-30
REPUBLICAN PROGRESS.

can Danger" the Hamburger Frem-
denblatt recently presented an editorial
article on it's front page based upon
ed States Treasury.
The article is a wall which is almost
heart rending. Like many German
statements it is lengthy and not terse
as our American methods teach, but
whatever is said has strong common
sense. To start with the article says:
The statement in the annual report
OF the hnance minister Of the United
States that the national revenues have
increased by $5S SOC, 900 and the expen-
ditures decreased by $117 ,OOO 900 merits
SERIOUS attention. The United States
had only few years ago to struggle
with not inconsiderable annual deficits
In the national revenues; it has regu-
larry sent INDEPENDENTLY to Eng
land and Germany-a large part of the
interest on national bonds and a con-
siderable share of railway and indus
trial securities, and has had to make
for more than ten years past yearly
appropriation for the pensioners of the
war of the rebellion larger than the
cost of the German army and navy
The Union has had to meet more re-
Gently the heavy cost of the war with
spain, and it's industries have to reck-
on with considerably higher wages and
higher rates of interest than the Euro
pean countries. In spite of all this. the
national budget of the United States
SHOWS the favorable balance which is
announced in the annual report of the
Treasury"
The fact that the United States ex-
ported in the last fiscal year goods
valued at 1884, 4S3, $50 and that more
than $1,370, 900 were of domestic ORR
gin seems appalling, but the true in
,varui,eess Of the danger the German
paper sees not so much in the volume
of exports as in the percentage 81 eX-
ports. 1t states that the present per-
centage Of manufactured goods
amounted to 31,54 per cent Of the WkCie,
or very nearly one third. One must
slve another quotation to show the rea-
son for the feeling. 1t runs as follows:
ITO appreciate this fact, it must be
remembered tnat in the year 1880 only
Is per cent, in 1893 only 70 per cent
ana in the year 1880 only II per cent
of the total exports We're the products
OF manufacturing industries. These
figures mean more than they alone say.
They speak a threatening language;
they say clearly ana torclbly that the
United states, which ten years ago eX-
ported more tnan 50 per cent OF agrcul-
tural products and less than a fifth of
manufactured goods, today draws near
ly third-more than IA per cent more
of its entire export from the products
of its factories. In other words, the
Union is marching with gigantic strides
toward conversion from an agricultural
to an industrial nation
This will be more apparent if we
consider the export statistics of the
years 1899 and 1900 from another stand
point We see that the value of in
dustrial products exported during the
fiscal year 1899 was $3.50 592, 146 while
that of the fiscal year 1900 was S432,-
1855, an increase of a round $4,000
900, or q per cent, in single year. Do
not such an enormous increase and the
correspondingly rapid progress in pro-
ductiVe and selling capacity constitute
an imminent danger for all competing
nations?"
1t is evident what is worrying the
German mind, in Germany AS long
as the United States remained an agri-
cultural nation there was not much
danger to be feared, but when manu-
featuring came to the fore, and the
wealth and brains of the nation are
turned in that direction the matter be-
comes one of intense interest. The
manufactures Of the United States are
going to, dominate the world, and are
going to sweep the markets of the
world. The United States has the
energy, the skill and the secrets of the
nj in
afford to pay higher wages and high
er rates of interest" and yet produce
better article and sell it cheaper
than can be done in Europe.
To what is the present manufactur-
ing prosperity of the United States due?
To what is the fear of competing ma
tiOns due? The answer is clear. 1t is
due to the Republican party There
never would have been the wall about
THE American Danger" in the Ham
burg paper if the Democratic party
had got the upper hand last Novem-
Der. The Republican party has foster
ed the manufactures of the United
States till they have become a domi-
nant power in the world, a power to
be feared and reckoned with The
Democratic party would have wrecked
the manufacturers and the millions of
keen eyed and skillful handicraftsmen,
and either left them to starve which
the weakly and aged would have done,
while the sturdy and saving would have
carried their skill to other markets.
There can be no stronger comment
upon the relative positions of the two
great parties of our country than these
remarks in an Influential German pa
per. Republican, the United States is
feared as a serious competitor, Demo-
cratic it ceases to be menace. Ergo
Germany believes in the Democracy.
There is one more wall which ought
to be reproduced before closing this
article. The Hamburg paper after cit
ing the many manufactures in which
the United States excels the world