New-York tribune., 1901-12-09
GERMANF'S TRADE RELATIONS.
ITS POLICY TOWARD ENGLISH AND AMER
ICAN INSURANCE COMPANIES.

many with relation especially to English and
American Insurance companies is from a
spondent Of The Financial News" OF London,
Lngiand:
1T sometimes said OF individual, collection
OF individuals, that they looking for trouble.
We remember, years ago than to
enumerate athletic friend who answered TO this
descr!ptiou-he was looking for trouble. One
we missed him n the accustomed spot but two
or three days afterward he presented himself He
had evidently found the trouble that he looking
for TO Judge by his appearance. Whoever looks for
trouble is pretty TO find It before long. The
patriotic gentleman who carries chip his
shoulder will generally find some oblige him
by knocking IL off, and the traditional rosterer at
Donnybrook Fair is not kept waiting to any excess
sive extent for TO tread the tail OF his
coat.
.~T7e bureaucrats Of Prussia, and those Of the
German Empire, in pursuing the policy which they
have steadily held for several years, seem to
be enulous Of the fame OF the mythical heroes Of
the Green Island. Lord Salisbury in referring to
the troubles Of France with Siam. now happily
ended spoke OF the matter policy Of PIN
pricks'; but French people to-day must acknowl-
edge that the recent trouble with Turkey the
ngfsh people have Loyalty supported France IN her
demand for justice There is desire for pricking
with pins on this side Of the Channel; but Germany
in dealing with industries and the financial cor
porations various countries seems TO ignore the
lessons OF history.
Great Britain is philosophicaIIy pursuing her way
as free trade country She may turn aside oc-
casionally TO hurl expletive at German swords,
German jewelry and notions generally, or she may
look askance at the American wheat crop crossing
the Atlantic (often to go back as ballast, but she
is not changing her system of government TO meet
either OF these things. She is simply pulling her
self together. and for some considerable time 10
come, at least. will not be incornnoded, either IN
her finances or her temper. by German or Ameri-
can connection. But the German bureaucrats
seem TO be looking for trouble. They have stirred
up British manufacturers 10 ferrnent over unfair
tariff Determinations and trade restrictions wnile
marvellous to relate, German experts discover
SYMPTOMS of trchfnosis in American smoked meats
and ptornafres in American timed vegetables, al
though these were invisible under other micro
scopicaI lenses than those of the German savans'
We in England under the impression that
Germany the home of trichinosis- But TINS ny
the
"rstelv again we have heard the outpourings OF
after dinner oratory Of an officer Of the German
navy in Hanover. This inspired officer Is said TO
have stated that Germany's interests IN me nVe
republics OF Central America, in view of American
competition, can only be maintained when Ger
MANY has a feet strong enough to say to the
Americans Hands OFF, which statement was re-
ceived with stern applause The imperial govern
rnent of Germany standing as stepmother to the
five Central American republics is something too
lovely to contemplate Then We have the general
secretarv of the German Industrial Union declar-
ing at the congress Of Germanys great manu-
featuring interests that Bismarck was want
ed q rise and aSSeUh bic the nations OF t~uiOPS
to grappIe with the American peril We DO not
know whether DR.. Wendlandt had been recently
reading the Final War Of Louis Tracy, or 1he
Yellow Peril but he seems 10 have got very eS-
cited over the matter. and declaimed against the
Tinted States which he kindly suggested was
dwelling in a fools paradise. He thoughtful
enough TO suggest that -EngIand's crCmblng COM
uerce would give her an iaducenent 10 connDlne
with Europe against America Our continental
friends are very appreciative Of England when
r.--+ 10 9-Pffv E7nnY'S
little way Germany has been anxious that Eng
land should help her in checkmating the legitimate
demands of France for satisfaction from turkey
but Great Britain has not obliged. and IL IS nlshy
fmprobabie that she will now enter into the sug-
gested combination against the United states OF
America
1T is not merely goods manufactures and naturai
products which seized by the throat by the re-
morse!ess German tariff law, but the financial oper-
ations Of these benefcent institutions the NE, to
and marine insurance companies Of the world are
dealt with if these concerns were nyins the
black hag infected with the plague. For-
egn insurance companies are being received III Ino
herman Empire to-day much after the manner IN
,-bicb DRAKE and his companions IN the Caribbean
Sea were handled by the Spaniards in the reign OF
Queen Elizabeth. 1t Is not tte haoit OF 6rllAs1i
people TO cry unnecessarily but when the Brl-
ish insurance companies find it needfui 10 combine
together and protest against the harsh ana oppres
sve laws of the German Empire, it is nos without
interest that glance across the Atianuc anu
notice that the great American insurance COM
panes are being treated in precisely the same way
yet II is at this moment that German professors
Of economies are looking British ali against the
French and American peoples They are ABOUT
as much likely to get IT Europe was during the
Sns,fsb -7erican War The provisions Of the
new imperial German law regulating the aoH1ls-
sion Of foreign insurance companies are practically
nrohihftive American companies are at one with
British Offices while at meetings or various ouhos
in different parts of German Empire speakers
are engaged in advocating governmental acuoh TOT
the exclusion Of British and American Sooos- Inc
German bureaucrat has a truly dellghtruI absence
of huunor In his composition The addresses at
+bese gatherings are reported verbatim bv the Ger
man press apparently with no fear Of prosecution
by the authorities for leze-n2jesty
Furt rther-and this is the most dangerous symptom
Of aII-the navies Of both Germany and the United
States are rapidly growing. The latter IS laying
down thirty-tvo warships and pushing for-
var5 fre construction of battieships and armored
cruisers with extraordinary energy but there are
other things she is doing 10 which little atuehuoi
IS drawn. Yet the enormous siege guns ana soiiu
earthworks at Sandy Hook ana other places are
going quietly ahead and the Atlantic coast OF
America will have many stinss wherewith to meet
a possible enemy in the future Is Germany look
ing for trouble we'll as a coalng stauon III tne
West Indies? Sincerely hope not: but II she
thinks Great Britain Will range alongside her
either in the matter of tariffs warke operations
she is most yrievously mistaken The German
navy nearly EQUALS the American navy now. ana
from the grants for new ships already made might
equal the latter in strength in about hVe years
bence-that is say, assuming that the Anaerl-
can Government stands still with regard TO It's
navy as to which intelligent persons may form
,ba,r ovv, oninion And supposing the Americans
stood still and fight took place something like
even terms on the principle of let the best man
win what is England likely to do in such crisis?
The sympathy Of England with the United States