The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-01-24

rem are thrust are prepared with
aresnic, Lavender stockings sde-
rive their beautiful tint from a
preparation of Mercury SS5ssls
There can be no ground whatever
for the familiar contention that an
other nation will buy from us only
as we buy from it. This theory
might be rejected even if expert
ence were not against it because
every one knows that no sentiment
al or political considerations have
large influence upon trade opera
tions. England and Germany and
other foreign countries purchase our
food products in vast Quantities,
not because they love us. not be
cause we favor their produoto
but because our prices are lower
thar, prices offered elswehere, quality
for quality: If we buy more co6eei
from Brazil than England buys, tes
Brazilians are not impelled by graft
tude to buy manufactured stuhsl
from us if they can make a better
bargain for themselves in England.
Probably we should not sell in the
Argentine a dollars worth more0f
our products if we should be 80 fool
ish as to admit Argentine wool ia
our market absolutely free. What
would happen would be that Wea
should help to impoverish our own
wool growers, so that they would
have to purchase less in the home
market, while the Pc o3le of Argen-
tine would take their swollen pro
fits and obtain their supplies from
Europe, just as the Brazilians Do.
There is but one kind of reciprocity
that can be to the interest Of tbs
nation as a whole: It is that which
will give Tariff fav ors in our ports
to articles we cannot produce and
give them in return for the decreae
in the, foreign country of .dutiqi
upon : which Am erican 5artieissj
which compete in that country with
similar articles made in and ex--tt
ported from Europe. allentown
Pa. 'News." J. !
= Germany has considerable trouble,
with it's, Polish population in East.
Prussia, and so has the United States
considerable trouble arising out Of:
its colored population in the South
Estates. Every great nation has
perplexities-- and difficulties to ems
o1ater a, ef>:; - f1l.:1 t1: ~
nation. Some nations meet the
crisis. wisely. Posen, ..one of the
provinces of ..the German Empire;j
e. decidedly. Polish, even one hun
dred: years after. it's conquest. from
Poland. Posen has a population Of
over. 2, ZOO, 900, and is therefore,
quite q factor in the German EN-
pire. - 4
The trouble in Posen a1ise, prin-
cipally through. religious : disputes
The. Poles are very strongly CathoJ
lie and the: Germans are strongly
Luthern: Z. But the fundamental
trouble is that the Poles are more.
fruitful as a race than the Germans
and therefore the Polish ropu]ations
is hourly becoming a. larger factor.
in. the: province. During the past
i've years the Polish population has
inrceased 10 < .per' cent while the
resident Germans increased only. Nh
per cent. Under such circumstances
Poser is gradually becoming more
and more. Polish, and. the Poles,.1
having "a much larger number Of
voters, are inclined to assert their 81
rights. 49, ::',I.it = WA
: The German chancellor. considers
that ths. Polish' agitators are acting
With; disloyalty,f but the. Poles. hold
otherwise. In the Posen schools
corporal punishment is allowed. ToI
that the Poles: object. :. To appease|
the Polish nationally, the govern