The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
aeermaa Iaaaatrlal Expaasaoa."

Boston Transcript.
 Never before was the Department of Commerce and Labor receiving such q mass of consular reports concerning industrial conditions abroad as at the present time, and assuming them to be fairly accurate. they furnish q body of information that. if not of great sitting for the signineance of the res iduum. One of the most interesting is the report of the industrial condi- ton of Germany up to the present year and into part of 1t. The empire standB second in the list of countries sn the aggregate pr trace transactions with the United States. both aY to i'm ports and exports and under the tenn porary arrangements made by the two countries to continue the status that has been for some time in. force there has been no falling of in the conmer- cial interchange. ~
 Raw cotton continues the largest item of export from this country. The value of that staple has advanced from es5.377, ,Ss6 In 1908 to 313S.e17.575 in 1908. Copper has considerably more than doubled in that time. and in most other raw materials a distinct gain has been made. Tn manufactures also. es- pecially in the machinery and instru- ment line, there has been an increase
 
 period. Most of the carrying, however, is done by Germany. To transport the merchandise passing between the two countrte5 there were required b,Se0,00 tons of chipping, of which the German steam vessels represented 4,720, 0,0O0 tons and those flying the American flag only 100000 tons.. Tn addition. Germany carried cargoes of American goods for other points than that country in ves- sells regtstering 100000 tons, so her ships carried more than one-tenth of the foreign trafic of this country.
 It is certainly for the interest of this country to maintain & flexible commercial agreement with Q country that has go much to give and potenti- ally so many needs to be satisded.r Though Germany may be straitened in her national revenues. her industrial growth has been great. This is inni- cated by her consumption of coal. which in a dozen years has increased from I00.o00,0 900 tons to over 100000 900 tons. In addition. in 1907 she used as fuel over 20.000,00 gallons of de- potatoes. This increase in mandfac- turing has caused shift between 1871 and the present time from a rural pop uIatiou comprising 64 per cent. of the whole to one of only 42 1-2 per cent
 The question of race suicide does not trouble Germany. though there Is steady drain upon her population through emigration. Last year nearly ,OOO left her and there are now about 3. 1000. 900 Germans in the United States, between 100000 and 100000 in Russia and a large Teutonic repre- sentation in Argentina and Brazil.
 Notwithstanding this. the population has almost doubled in fifty years. Tn the last eighteen years 1t has increas- ed from 70, 10000 to over 61.l77.O00, and the surplus of births over deaths has risen from 1l.7 per cent. in 1S9O to l4.s per cent in 1904. The depos- it's of these people in the various say ings banks guaranteed by their vari- or,s nnunlcipalfties amount to nearly three and a quarter billions. No won der Europe takes notice when the Ger man Emperor speaks