Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-12
Exports Mostly Cotton and Copper.

An examinat ton Of the above table brings
out some interesting facts. Nearly one-half
of the exports from the United States to
Germany are raw cotton, and II we add
copper the total Is more than one-hah OF
the entire exports. 1t Is absolutely neces-
sary for Germany to have those two arti-
cles and she cannot buy them anywhere
else. She has been trying to grow her oWil
cotton in her African colonies, and has been
successful in a small way, under the super
vision of American experts sent from the
cotton belt of the United States upon the
recommends ton of our Secretary of Agri-
culture During the last year $500 Ger
man West Africa produced 2o7, 500 pounds
of cotton, valued at 10000 marks, or, APP
proximately, $4,000. while the colony in
East Africa produced $50 bales of 500
pounds each, worth about $4,000. A recent
official report upon the subject says that
,scolonial cotton can never compete with
the United States in the worlds markets
until the hoe culture of the natives is re-
placed with the pillow. Experiments thus far
in Togo and other German colonies show
that the natives under proper tuition learn
quickly to handle the pillow and drive
draught animals. The transportation prob
lem, however. Is serious one in all the
colonies. Cotton cannot pay high freight,
and until railroads are developed there can
be no expansion of colonial cotton grow
ing"
But IL all her semi-tropical colonies should
be cultivated to their utmost capacity, they
cOul0 not pFOOuCc IL per Cciil VI Inc Spetoh
required by the mills of Germany and the
operators could not obtain more than rs
per cent of their supply anywhere else than
in the United States.
The copper consumed by Germany L. the
manufacture of electrical supplies is OBJ
tained almost entirely In the United States,
and there is no other source of supply. If
those imports were cut OF the development
of electrical science which is quite as rapid
in Germany as In any other country, would
be Immediately arrested and 1t would be q
waste of time to discuss such possibility.
Other German Necessities.
Germany must have oil cake naval stores
and cottonseed OIL which she cannot get
anywhere else and while she can do with
out breadstuff when Russia, Austria
Hungary and other neighboring countries
have good crops, the lean years come as
often as the fat, and there must be a great
deal of suffering whenever the food supply
from any source Is interrupted.
Germany must import annually at least
$500, 100000 worth of food-brea dstuus
meats and ,provisions-because her farmers
cannot raise enough to feed her own people
and just now there is meat famine
throughout the empire, caused by the policy
of the government in imposing restrictions
upon imported meats for the benefit of local
farmers. A cable dispatch to the American
newspapers on November 2 announced that
1.-The municipal council of Berlin had adopt
ed vehement resolutions demanding that the
government relieve the meat famine nv
opening the frontiers. They declare that
meat has entirely disappeared from the
workmans table. and is regarded as a
| luxury by the middle classes. The con-
| sumption OF horsefiesh 10 increasing enor-