Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-08-27
Depew Seconds the Alarm.

Senator Chanucey M Depew just
back from European trip reports a
state of affairs very much like that in
Brooks Adams Atlantic article upon
which we commented Friday. The
nations of Europe, he says, are greatly
wrought up over the inroads of Amer
lean competition, and earnestly
casting about for means to overcome
it:
1t is less than a quarter Of a century
when the Europeans thought native
Americans we're Indians or black.
Now we are the White Terror. Con-
tinuing upon this subject, the
Senator said: There is genuine
scare on thu continent about the
competition of American manufsc'
turers in their markets, and cabinets
are consulting if any combination is
practicable which will prevent the
importation of American goods and
check our invasion of the East, which
has been opened at such Sast expense
and effort by European governments.
| heard Russian statesman say:
Concert of action may be impossible,
but Russia, in response to discrlml
mating duties, has shown how each
country in its own way can stop this
competition.
We are coming to be considered a
common enemv, to the extent that We
actually supplant foreign manrcfac.
turers, and this feeling is intensified
by every concern which goes bank.
rupt, or reduces wages, or lays OF |
portion of it's employees ascribing 1t
all to American comuetltion. This
unfriendliness is not likely to result
in war. The relations of European
governments are too intricate and
uncertain among themselves for any
one to take that risk, and comblna-
ton is impossible An industrial
defensive and Offensive alliance
against US has insupersble difficulties.
But We must expect each country to
put 10 practice every device to Keep
our products out
Germany has both tariff and trusts.
there is syndicated The
trusts refuse to sell anything to mer-
chant who deals in an imported
article. This makes it more difficult
fer the importer. because the boycott
means ruin. Where the American
opens his own warehouse, as the shoe I
callers did in Vienna, the native
,hopdealers mob the place, and the
police look the other way. Notwlth-
standing all this the superiority and
,heapness of our goods Bre giving !,
hem increasing demand everywhere,
He thinks there is more danger of
roSble from the Monroe doctrine than ,
10y other source. Thus:
| found a general sentiment that We +
hould have our way about canal Il
cross the isthmus, to build, own and
ontrol. They were quite ready to
ccede courteously ami cordially to
ur wishes, only that treaties should G
Re ahrogated as they are made by the
diplomatic formalites and agreements '
ommon among friendly powers, I
europe has just grasped the full t
leaning of the Mouore uoctrlne and
unanimously resents it. The Old d
Verdi wants larger trade with South t
merica, cnsling stations for fleets on
his side of the ocean, both in the =
tlantic and the Pacific, ana free
and for protection of citizens ana
ommerce in the several states of the
sthmus and South America On this r.
ley are all agreed and ready to act
nd cannot understand that the S;
Ionroe doctrine is as much a part f W
le settled policy of the United States r,
; its constitution.
The railroads in South America
ave heen built with foreign morey
I'd mines are developed and worked, II
ocks and warehouses constructed,
BnKs organized and run, and every to
lterprisp capitalized and made 1t
ossble by the lavish investr ent of &C
nglish, German, French and Italian Cd
Ipital. The amount runs into
emendous figures, and tbcs, govern
ents are alert for their citizens and
Ieir rights If we ever have serious
ouble it is more likely to come from ST.
n fixed purpose 90 this question OIL
an from Eastern complications or
rivulries. IN