The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-01
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Special Correspondence OF The Sunday Republic.
Rotterdam. Jan. III stubbed my toe
on the American invasion the moment !
landed In Rotterdam.
The obstruction Was a square box marked
ORGAN
From Meridian, Connecticut, o. g. A.
c.. Keltnsrs Groote Magszijnen van Pianos.
Kalverstraat, Amsterdam.
A little further on were barrels OF machine
oil from New York, and next to them a lot
of American sewing machines in crates.
Out in the River Mas anchored to a float
ing buoy were great steamers unloading
Minneapolis -four into two huge barses to
be sent up the Rhine.
All along the Boompjes were American
goods Of various kinds.
/ took a carriage and drove for several
miles up the wharves. crossing the bridges
TO the Noorderefland. and on to the left
; bank of the Mas.
We went by warehouse AFTER warehouse.
and everywhere I saw more or less stuff
from the United States.
On the Holland-Amer,can quay there was
an acre or so of cotton bales from Calves
ton awaiting tr~ansshipment for the Dutch
cotton mills.
Near by was a yard filed with resin bar
rels from Savannah, which gave forth a
smell like a canning factory.
AT one place / stopped my carriage and
photographed a wagon load of Standard OIL
barrels. and at another 1 took a snapshot
of a gang of Dutch emigrants about TO
board a ship for New York.
1 saw cargoes of American lumber, buck
cts and boxes of American meats, wagon
loads Of lard and tallow and all sorts Of
crates holding American machinery.
One item was a cargo of Chicago moving
machines being loaded on barges for the in
terror of Northern Europe. and another wes
barge after barge of American cotton seed
OIL, which passed through under one of the
drawbridges as / waited to cross.
At the same time l saw a score of ocean
steamers loading for Asia. Africa end the
Dutch East Indies. and rode past miles and
miles of river and canal craft.
AS l went on / could see something of the
enormous business which the Dutch have
with the rest of the world.
They are the little giants Of commercial
Europe.
They do not number as many as three
times the population Of Chicago. but they
nave twice as much foreign trade as the
isoooooO Russians. three times as much as
the Spaniards or Italians and twice as much
az the whole South American continent.
HOLLANDS TRADE WITH
THE UNITED STATES.
Holland stands sixth in the point OF bus,-
ness done among the commercial atoms
of the world. and about one-tenth of its
trade is with the United States.
4 makes Iorelsn exchanges to the extent
OF more than a billion dollars a year. and ~
annually buys more than a hundred million
dollars worth of goods from us.
Let us stop a moment and think what fh;.
means. '
This little country has in round number,
just about five million people, or one million
families. but 1t buys one hundred miuio,
dollars worth of Uncle Sans goods every
year.
rms means that on the average every
Iamiiy buy 800 worth annually, and this.
Notwithstanding Its sales to US, will not
average more than s12 or SIS a family.
vi course much OF these goods are bought
East Indies. which are eighty times as large
as holland itself. but the trade is there all
the same, and the business Is so big that Il
VIII pay the most careful nursing and tba
most enthusiastic pushing.
The South American continent Is less i'm
portant to US than Holland.
Our trade with the Chinese br,rr g.,
ing like az much as our trade u,th az,
Dutch' and IN its possibilities ii is worth os
much as the business of any of the 60
tries OF Europe. with the exception NJ ~
iand, Germany. France and that undevei-
oped Empire Russia.
Just now is the best time IN ,r,r,.
trade. The Dutchmen do not ,ike ~ r.
iish. They can't get over the troubles .,
tnelr south African cousins. the Roarc 80
,n,hss oeihs equal, they will give the
United states the preference every time
There are hundreds of articles which ro
make that ought to be sold here. and by
studying the wants Of the people and drum. |
ming the trade there can be enormous In
crease.
But first let me tell you what our business,
now consists of.
1 have before me the Dutch imports FROM
the United states for the first half Of the
year 1900. They are a little old, but the |
trade is practically the same to-day.
I will give you some of the items. They |
1onsist OF cotton, cotton SEED oil. lard, tai |
low. margarine, meat and tobacco as we'll |
as a large variety of other articles.
BUTTER MADE FROM
OUR COTTON SEED.
Ths cotton they bought amounted TO