Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-20
Kaiser Blamed For the Collapse

hardest at Germany's enormous chemical
industry.
1t has always prided itself on the intelli-
gence by which the application of scientific
treatment to mineral and vegetable bypro-
ducts has given it almost the world mon
opoly of a class Of business that often
yields hundreds per cent OF profit. 1t con-
trolls the market in aniline dyes. Hence
forth instead Of exporting their products
to England after their manufacture has
given employment to a large laboring popu-
lation and staffs of experimental chemists
and managers the companies owning these
patents must transfer, so far as their Brit
ish trade is concerned, all the working
benefits to that country
1t is the first warning shot in the COM
mercial war. Hitherto England has let
it's traders rely on themselves to maintain
their ohld on the open international market.
Now that their government has furnished
them with a protective law as a weapon
in their struggle Germany realizes that it
is coming nearer to a war between the two
governments and people for commercial
supremacy,
1t lavishes its resources on naval con-
struction in the hope that the British inn
perialist's maxim that trade follows the
los may RApfO ~ W q
ton. TacticaIy the great commercial ri
valry between Hamburg and Bremen would
prove to it's advantage. 1t has practically
no small harboTs to defend, All it's enor-
nous modern tonnage could be gathered
in these two ports for protection against
the enemy, and that same tonnage could
at a word be concentrated by the govern
ment for an aggressive raid.
Another reverse visited upon German in
dustry in its days OF difficulty is the rails
ing by the reform government at Constanti-
nople Of the import duty In Turkey on
manufactured goods from IL per cent to
Is per cent. II is a step that Germans be-
lieve England has approved Turkeys taxi
ing In order to furnish funds for the estab-
lishment of the new system, and 1t is taken
chiefly at the expense of German trade.
With the kaiser himself as their eco
nomic pioneer the m have been
led to look on the Turkish market as
their own special inheritance In the
days when the Turkish market would
have been invaluable as a depository for
the surplus produce which cannot find
ready money buyers among its overseas
customers it sees its enemies build
higher the barrier against It.,
What displeases its government still
HlOlG 10 W otN NAal lub ntN l0bliAS N
Turkey has chosen an 7Englishman, Sir
William Willcocks, and a Frenehman,
NJ. Charles Laurant. to reorganize and
administer one OF its public works, irri-
cation and transport and the other
its financial system. 1t has for the
nonce to put up with the tacit eXclu-
sion from Turkey, the one country on
earth where II seemed only a few months
ago that its authority was paramount.
1t is a most pminous fatality in the
present conpuncture of troubles in Ger
many that so very many of its people
find evidence that England is the evil
spirit that is thwarting its righteous
growth. It's historic future, they say,
will not be its own until it has settled
accounts with England. Their insis.ence
that the kaiser should be the enemy of
their enemy accounts for most Of the
temper in the present agitation for the
annulment OF the personal regime and
the vigorous pursuit OF strictly German
aspirations