The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-01
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For the German investigators OF
our American agricultural ana INDUS
trial processes we bespeak the warm
ac, welcome. The American oDllSa-
ton to these oversee VISITORS Iidh
seconds all considerations of mere nos
pitality and blood relationship. 1hes
are hone of our bone and flesh OF our
flesh Intellectually. They aim at the
same high ideals in commerce anu
manufacture, they have resort to the
same instruments of selt-adVahce
ment Let us meet them. therefore,
&c tilicums. equals, souls OF guests
ond couls of hosts with but a single
thought.
eft is the German, as it is the Am
erican. view of prosperity that 1t
varies in direct ratio to the weight
Of taxes. 1t is the German, as it is
the American, view of commerce that
It's volume grows with every obstacle
thrown in it's way. 1t is the German,
as il is the American, idea that the
way to extend your sales is to beggar
YOUR customers. 1t is the German, as
it is the American, idea of popular
content that it is to be fOstered only
by high prices for food. 1t is the
German as it is the American, idea
of industrial organization that the
domestic consumer is best protected
from domestic monopoly by excluding
foreign competition. 1t is the Ger
man. as il is the American, idea that
national greatness is national isola-
ton. to be promoted and conserved
by appraised clubs at every port for
all who might seek your shores to do
business.
In accord with these harmonious
conceptions of trade we build up
sugar and beef trusts with tariffs
here. the while Germany builds up
sugar and grain trusts with tariff
there. Our ideas so closely coincide
that while we lay heavy penalties
upon the German who would dare
supply rails for our transportation
lines. Germany simultaneously lays
heavy penalties upon the American
who would dare supply hungry Ger
mans with bread and meat The duty
which sustains our Havemeyers and
OXnards is kindly supplied the Ger
man sugar growers in bOunties from
the public treasury. Every American
Christmas tree pays tribute of pro-
tective tariffs on its German toys and
American shoes and bicycles cost the
German buyer an excessive price
All this is done in the name of the
people Sugar is high in the United
States for the benefit. not of the trust
but of the masses. Food is dear in
Germany, not for the rich landowner
and manufacturer. but for the peas
ant.
Is it too much to ask. then, of the
principals in this mutual arrange
ment that they invoke a fellow feeling
to mitigate the righteousness with
which each has regarded the other?
If the Dingley rates seem Onerous to
the German exporter. should not a lit
tie reflection teach him to felicitate
Us upon our grasp Of and fidelity to
the philosophy OF the great Bismarck?
Ii the ReiChstag puts the screws a
little harder on our beef and flour.
shall not our PilIsburys and Armours
address letters Of praise instead Of
protest to Secretary Hay and our
ambassador at Berlin? In this spirit
Of fraternaI regard let us meet our
German visitors. Then they can
hardly fail to report with enthusiastic
| approval the thoroughly German way
We have in this country of making il
as difficult as possible for German
producers to find markets in Ameri
| can ports