The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-01

MAY DEPOSE THE KAISER,

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a tariff war with the United States
there Is no reason why he should MOI
be gratifed We can stand il longer
than he can.
Our products are necessary to the
German people. They must take them
at Whatever price or buy than at
starvation prices elsewhere. We can
) sell what Germany now takes else.
where by making price concessions.
We sell TO Germans now because
their policy Of protection compels
them to pay higher than others. The
products Of Germany are not neces.
sary to us. We take them because the
! German trusts, like the American, sell
cheaper abroad than at home We can
buy them elsewhere by paying little
more
Protection means high prices for
everything at home and low prices for
exported products. Only a country of
great natural resources can stand this
for long. We seem 10 thrive under IL
because we are rich enough 10 do
everything in the most expensive way.
Germany is not rich enough for this
national extravaganza. We can enrich
our trusts without starving our PEG.
pie. Germany cannot. Too many mill
lions Of her congested population are
now skirting starvation.
The German trusts and thrifty mer-
chants Of Belgium and Holland are
bnsily preparing for a tariff war with
the United States. Their importations
Of American food products have in
creased from 100 To 500 per cent. in
the last year. They are stocking up TO
sell to the German wO~kingman at
starvation prices when the kaiser puts
his prohibitory tariff In effect against |
the United States. This is the game
American importers and manufactur. !
ing trusts play when our own tariff it /
about to be raised Our highly paid |
workingmen can stand it. The German |
workingmen cannot
When the German government shut |
our our meat products some months |
ago, German workingmen went on a
vegetable dier, mines nad to be closed |
because men could not endure the
labor on insufficient food, meat shops
failed by the score in Frankfort, Ber-
lin and other cities anu a new wave
of socialist discomfort broke over the
empire. There were seditious meet
ings in many cities and troops have
Just suppresser a riot in the old free
city of Hamburg.
When the continental powers talked
OF intervening in our war with Spain.
the price CT food bounded up and there
were bread riots all over Europa
Thrones tottered until monarchs gave
ND Inc Idea OF meddling. The people
of Europe fought battles against their
soyeTigns and governments in fighting {
for their own existence They would
do It again. should their soyerigns and /
government give them the same occa- !
sion.
The socialist party in Germany is
strong enough now TO be dangerous to
the government II is affiliated with ,
the great body o. workingmen.
them it reaches the rank and ,
file of the army. Russian troops are
peasants but the Russian navy is en-.
list ed from the w1rkingmen and Is
rotten with sed.tion. The German ,
army il full of workIngmen and Is ,
tainted with socialistic ideas.
The natural domestic enemies of the
German workingmen are the ladhold- +,
hg noble in whose interest the gov.
arnment is about to put up the price
Il food. What would happen If hunger
should give n keener edge 10 their
political animoslty against The mobiles
and the Industrial trust? We know T,
what mas happened 70 the manufactur. i.
ug cente.s OF Poland and to the Ge.-
man landed estates In the Baltic pro q
yinces Of Russia.
Only a 'ursnce Of German aid pro-
tees tho Russian government itself 7
81 m overthrow What would happen I
- both governments If private of
American food should bring socialist '
revolution in Germany?
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