Evening star., 1901-11-11

of prominent German paper, which has
been copied by numerous other Journals,
indicate the commotion caused:
IF the Stuttgart papers expose is cor
rect the government has surrendered I'M
conlitionaIIy to the agrarians- The double
tariff has been fixed for a long line of agri-
cultural products: the latter are advanced
from J0-390 per cent above present existing
rates. Naturally commercial treaties can
not, with such advances, be effected, for
the German government in fixing such rates
has tied up it's hands.
THE government with bandaged eyes
steps forward upon negotiating with for
eign countries, while the eyes of the last
named have beer thoroughly opened by
this proceeding. And all this on account
of livid dread of the agrarians. Now the
call comes at the last hour to ward of ter
rible danger which this action brought
about
Our largest customers, England, United
States, Russia, Austrla-Hungary, Italy, will
supply themselves from elsewhere those
articles which hitherto they have purchased
from us.
Our exports would be barred, our in
dustries destroyed and our commerce would
be lowered from the high position it now
maintains. A large part of our population
would go without bread. and thus our home
market be seriously weakened and our
trade and manufacturing receive their
death blow.
'The sad conditions resulting from tar
iff war with foreign countries can scarcely
De estimated. Lowering the people s StaHd-
ard of life, forced emigration of our best
labor elements, an intense competition
among those unable to leave, unwholesome
over-production.
prosperity of her industries To nourish
these is to Increase the nations welfare;
to repress them is equivalent to it's destruc-
ton. Manufacturing is intimately con-
nected with commerce. In illustration of
this truth let view our mighty transat-
lantic marine traffic, which is now SO grati-
flying.
No one has taken into consideration
that the United States, if warning with us
about the tariff, could easily put an md
to this shipping service by levying an eX-
ira tariff rate on imported goods carried in
German bottoms Has any one reflected
that thus, for the sake of a little bit of
grain advancement, not only our industries,
but also our commerce, is crowded out of
our country and gets transplanted to the
foreign country which we boycotted.
Branch Factories in America.
In desperate efforts to retain their mar
kets a number of German establishments
have set up branch factories in other coun-
tries, notably the United States. The
chamber of commerce of the important
manufacturing district, Ludenscheid, Ger
many, in it's recent annual report, takes
strongly antagonistic position against this
growing movement The more noteworthy
remarks of the report on this subject fol-
low:
German manufacturers have established
quite a number Of branch factories in for
eign countries, because the high tariff rates
there existing barred the exports of their
goods thereto, they believed. Even
though these manufacturers may profit by
this move, such profit will scarcely prove
permanent. By the transplanting of Ger
man manufactures in their habitual mar
kets the German industries working for
export trade are most senSitively hurt.
Most of these branch factories soon go into
foreign possession, the manufacturing Sc
crets become exposed and the operatives go
over to other factories.
I'VE have also frequently noticed that
German manufacturers who have estab
lished branch factories in foreign countries
have become ardent advocates of the high
tariff movement and the protective policy
prevailing there; such action on the spart
of German manufacturers is to be sadly de-
plored. but they cannot ask that the Ger
man tariff levy moderate rates on foreign
goods. while they agitate for high tariff
rates in the countries where they carry on
branch factories"