New-York tribune., 1903-06-22
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
MR.. CHAMBERLAIN's POLICY.
Benefits of the Closest Possible Combination
of the Peoples of the Empire.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir' In this days issue of your paper appears a
letter under the caption Mr.. Cham5eriain's New
Pohcy, and signed Ell Marquis de Lowe Her
mosar in which the writer claims TO express few
impartial opinions the subject.
In the same issue you have editorial Com
pettors in the British Market, which latter is In
structive.
The marquis claims that if It were the tariff
which has brought prosperity to the United States
and Germany, it should have made China and
Morocco the leading powers OF the earth-a rather
far fetched comparison.
take it the policy which Mr.. Chamberlain advo-
Gates is Of free trade among the different mem
hers Of the British Empire and tariff against the
world. and It should be the paramount endeavor OF
British statesmen strengthen the ties which bind
together all different and distant portions Of the
empire, that their united strength could De
welded for their common protection.
In 1898 Canada passed preferential tariff favor
ing the United Kingdom. We find that the exports
from the United Kingdom to Canada in the years
preceding the enactment show a steady decline up
to the very year of that enactment. In the decade
1SS7-'s7 British exports or domestic produce and
manufactures to Canada fell from f7.75S.16 to f5lH-
SOL reduction Of SO per cent In 1889 they were
IS 5s5 an increase of SO per cent. Further. the
exports from the United Kingdom to all the colo
MES in 1879 increased only per cent. as COM
pared with increase OF 33 per cent to the single
colony giving this trade privilege-Canada
Studying the exports from France, a protective
country, to her colonies and all other countries we
find
To French colonies-1SS7. 2O9 100000 francs 1901
SIC 20o003 francs increase IA per cent To all other
countres-1SS7 3oS7.100G 1901. S5o2 10000
francs: increase. Is per cent.
Taking the exports from the United Kingdom tle
total OF two tables which INCLUDE seven classes oL
articles for personal and nineteen classes loT
domestic consumption, from 1863 to 1900 we ma tnt
the exports from the United Kingdom to iorelssYn
countries show a decrease CT 9l2 per cent, while
those to the colonies show an increase OF 81 per
Taking the total exports Of cotton goods from the
United Kingdom, find that from 1869 to l9V9 LnoSe
10 foreign Countries decreased per cent while to
British colonies they increased So per cent.
The British colonies are that portion OF tIe
which is developing most rapidly IN an things @ lnat
make for national greatness, and their resources,
far from being exhausted. are only beginning 10 pc
exploited. II would seem, therefore lhat poucS
n less than patriotism demanded the closest pos
sible combination among the peoples Of the empire
No alliance between independent states can De SO
close and intimate as the connection which unteS
the colonies the United Kingdom as parts OF Ihe
British Empire, and that the possession OF NUM-
globe is source of incalcuIable strength 10
the empire was amply demonstrated through tae
Boer war. It. -.
of our produce. but they who give the biggest
amount of value in exchange for II. Is the Faiue
of the loyalty and affection of the colonies for te
empire computable? 3,
Which was the truest prophet-DisraeH. who, IN
1872 said: NO minister in this country VIII 90 MS
ing much possible our colonial empire ana
of responding those distant Sympathles Whlcn
may become the source Of incalcuabIe strensth ana
happiness to this Island, or John motley, Eho ue
clared ii IAN utter ifnpossibty that NeW-AealanQ 10
would spend her blood and treasure to uphold Brit
sh supremacy in South Africa - 49,. 4,a
think the figures given above prove that tLe
colonial business is enormously valuable asset in
England's trade capable Of indefinite expansion ii
necessary to its full development. A. MULLER-
Brooklyn, June 20, 1903