The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-10
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.


| Editor of The Tribune
| Sir: American made shoes Of American leather
| and American styles are making rapid ncadway IN
England as also American made rIblcrs.
German sewing machine manufacturers conf
| plain of sharp competition on sewing machine
exports. but We nearly caught M IN 1919 TIE
| figures being Sl.jW,0GJ tn Grrmlny's 81 SSl ,G,l.
| Owing To our want oi Il sufficient marine,
Germany sells nearly ali of the vrry large number
| of sewing machines bought by south Ameri, ,an
countries, therefore the figures snow that are
considerably ahead sewing machine cNi,ots
| TO the rest of the world.
Our country il great, prosperous aud powerful.
| For few years it has moved forward with tna
| strides OF Young giant, and today ranks with
| the foremost itiorS ot the world. This rc,,:it
| has bcccn attained under the policy Of prorec
| ton" lScrator Frye
| Next month begin to export zinc ore rom
Joplin. 40, to Europe.
Mexico bought from rs last wear much more
| than for any previous year. In fact tn" it,.
| crease was much NOR" llan hali great IS her
| entire imports from Germany. aud much m'r'
| than tho aggregate increase of all other coma
tries.
A. Dr. Hart says in his Foundations oi
| American Foreign Policy" We now begin to
| realize without knowing it. The Louisiana pl'r
| chase and expeditions to TcNa,, Mexico, 'Ili.
folnl and Japan. bear witness To- this.
| \ trm Of English tobacco manufacturers offers
| to manufacture for the retail trade at small
percentage over cost IN order to meet the Amer
| lean invasion,
\ railroad i, to he built at lcrlanL"!al
Sweden, Tor which all the equipment viii he sent
| nom the United States.
| Petroleum is ono Of our big holds, and We
| break III" record 10y one shipment of 2,0sO,Sii
| gallons rom Philadelphia to tcttc, france.
Our energetic COnsul.gcn at Berlin Hon.
| Frank H. Mason, reports the result oi ih% cN'
| pcricncr of the ROYAL railway administration Of
| Bavaria with American locomotives lie quotes
| the following Telegram from Munich published
in Brrlin The BayIrian state railways re-
rcivcd from the Baldwin Locomotive works, in
Philadelphia, two express passenger locomotives,
which have been in us" nearly three fuurthS uf u
year The American machines are characterized
throughout by the greatest simplicity in all
parts
Tie consul general adds, 'Thc results ~ all It,
and observations has been entirely satisfactory
American owned ship yards Ihc iJnols
Clyde river is our latest effort Not only ar We
supplying Europeans with almost all they need
| but we shall build the ship, ON their own
| side, which they will huy, and send over her"
To fetch what they need, But ,cIiuu, question
arises here. l. il the ahsruue ot government Al
| cnco,lragcmcnt OF our ship builders which com
pcl1 them tp go abroad for cheap labor 10 mos
| the old world competition IN ship huiliing The
opponents uf the proposed ship subsidy bill
should ponder this, in view o the fact tat
| morc building of ships in ON own yards, means
moro work and more Wages for Americans
American uMhcd shops, hcd with American
made SHOES, are uow running in Berlin, Hans
burg, Drcs.cn, Frankfort, Munich. lcipNtr,
Vienna, and other European CITIES, Eacn j. do
in- i large and paying business and helping %
keep our shoe factories busy.
secretary Wilson says in his 'cpoIi that onr
exports OF agricutmcal product, in th' itNal
year ending June 80, lpCi, exceeded Si500D1I0,
hling S0,OpOJ0 more than the record year of
lS9S. The United Kingdom hOu sht over - pcr
cent. of this, and yet We are selling her only
one.third Of The foreign farm product she pur-
chases. This leaves Ms room Tor future expansion
along that line
Emperor William of Germany viii be wIrnod
b. American coal this winter, Several tols ot