The San Francisco call., 1904-08-21
AS SEEN ABROAD.

book in its "Annales Politiques ct Ltteraires" on
the industrial OF the United States. and
the relation of this country to the commercial interests
cf France. This book is reviewed by NJ Hanotaux of
the Academy in the Journal de St. Petersburg in
iuental Russian paper NJ Hanotaux says the publica-
OF this book of the signs OF the times 1t is
vcrtabc practical encyclopedia of commerce. and
adds The great evil in France is the desire stay
home the indifference to travel. The French do not
travel hence everything surprises them The only
for insularity and narrowness is travel Travei Go
outsidep say again and again to my counrymen.
Now the book under review would dispense with travel
that possible 1t puts facts just they read
ing lives among realities One made under
stand why nation succeeds and the other
fails. Here the of sellers. buyers. banking
houses, commission houses. and in certain
the method of procedure"
Continuing NJ Hanotaux says the United States is
high above the commercial horizon It's attitude is
menacing, and all eyes turned to it. With terri
tory large Europe and population of 8ooooooo,
touching the worlds two great oceans, and climate
that ranges from tropical arctic and all kinds of
erals from gold to coal. and all plants from cedar to
hyssop and all animals from the whale to the bird of
paradise, the master of all the articles OF primary i'm
portance ron cotton and cereals this colossal
industrial empire is armed the teeth for the of
peace In freight alone the United States nearer to
the Mediterranean than Liverpool is to Marseilles
He all of this vast power concentrated to push
its products with irresistible impulse upon the markets
of the world But he declares that it is match
less industrial discipline alone that for our
power and prinacy for that very discipline has created
still more inteligently welded and terrible weapon
the graduated tariff, continually changed to meet
changed conditions, and modified coincide with the
progress of the country Sheltered behind this he
the American republic forging ahead with astonishing
apdity and Our gates opened closed as
the stranger is considered helpful harmful.
He concludes: Thus the beginning of the TWEEN
eth century the United States faces the world as
desirable market the hand and as an awful
to manufacturing nations the other. Is Eu-
rope in general and each particular power doomed
inevitable and irremediable defeat? Is the battle
is to be fought hopeless? Will the power prosperity
and progress that have marked the American republic
movements for decade continue until they have OBJ
scured all else? In other words be confronted
by American peril terrible and pressing
than the yellow peril that is WELD against the
Old World the weapon before which that Old World to
go down to rretrevabe defeat?"
NJ Hanotaux decides that industrial warfare differs
from military and that in it both victor and
quished gain something AS long tariff
defend home market. but also means of Sc
curing reciprocal trade, he believes that the Old World
may prosper such OF trade we choose to give
it in for that which it has and want He de-
cides that is useless to try and
cial primacy. But have the primary materials re-
quired by Europe, COAL cotton iron and petroleum. and
he believes that endanger the Old World only in the
1000 supply Europe wants materials which
she does produce AS for France he believes that
she will be eXceled in the manufacture Of
articles which do not produce and that with the
inevitable increase in wealth which attends upon our
continued control of the worlds commerce. we will al
ways offer her profitable market But he does not
point the particulars in which the Of Europe
may find equal comfort except that those nations may
under the stress and pressure of the American peril
discover in themselves and unsupported capacities
To illustrate such possibility he quotes one example
in searching into the capacities of this continent and
using them in development As instance OF this
he says: I'm IS23 the commander of Fort Dearborn
pessnist wrote to the Secretary of War Washington
have the honor to inform you that this post should
be abandoned because the country surrounding it is