Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1910-02-18

1t is conceded that Germany, since
the Franco Prussian war has forged
ahead faster than any other foreign
power, and today disputes with Great
Britain the prestige of the commercial
and military world Moreover, in forty
years, she has doubled in material
wealth.
One would think that these facts and
their causes would be the profound
study of the American statesmen.
With half the population of the United
States, on not very productive soil;
how is it possible that country has
been able to so advance in material
strength, as to cause shudders to run
up and down the spine of France and
to give Great Britain Mysteries at least
three times year surely should be
study.
When her war closed with France
indemnity for the wars losses. That,
according to Secretary Wilson, was
equal to about one eighth of the value
of the agricultural product of the
United States last year. 1t was only
about four times the amount of one of
j. Pierpont Morgan's purchases few
days ago.
But the statesmen of Germany
figured that the only way their country
could sustain their increasing popula-
ton and accumulate money to meet the
demands of the government and people,
would be through forign trade. She
had always before bought her ships
from Great Britain. She at once es-
tablished her own ship-yards and dug
canals from them to the open sea. She
established steam lines between Ger
many and the worlds important ports, |
and she instructed the commanders of |
her merchant ships to miss no freights |
that could be utilized at home, promis- |
ing at the same time to make good any
losses they might be subjected to
through such freighting. To keep |
rugged the health of her young men, to
teach them needed discipline, to incite
their patriotism, to awaken their self /
respect and to fit them to meet the
duties of life with broadened minds and
without fear, either in peace or war,
she insisted that they should undergo
for a sufficient time the discipline of
the army or navy. She impressed upon
her manufacturers the fact that to sell
goods in foreign lands, they should be
of the very best quality, put up in the
most attractive forms, and especially
adapted to the wants and tastes of the
people where they were to be sold. So
university graduates were engaged to
make new designs and to make new
chemical combinations to improve both
the quality and attractiveness of their
wares to be sold abroad Merchants
were encouraged to establish trading
houses in foreign countries, by the
promise that German ships should not
fail them, but at regular short inter-
walls should give them sight of the
flag of fatherland and should carry to
them any goods desired. She soon dis
covered that the difference between
buying and building ships was that, in
the first case, the cost of them went !
out of Germany into the Golfers of
foreign ship builders, and was lost to
Germany forever, whereas, when ships Z
were built at home. the money all went
10 her own miners, ship-builders and Z
artisans and still remained a part of 4
the volume of German money. She
soon found, too, that the ships built at
home cost less than as though purchased I
abroad, and the encouragement given
her ship architects and artisans caused
them to build finer and feeter ships
than had ever been produced abroad.
German manufactured goods went to a
foreign country and was traded there {,
for the raw products of such country v
which was in the bomeward voyage ii
carried to Germany, she had traded a t
small amount of cheap material, which A
had been illuminated by German brains,
for a large amount of raw material II
which her own manufacturers needed, o.
and that the freight money out and d.
pack, was safe in her own Golfers. Il
This all cost much money, but she Vi
was able to meet the cost without
'aising the rate of taxation, for her al
had to be enlarged and "
improved, more iaborers by thousands fir
md tens of thousands had to be en- tn
,loyed, the taxable property advanced tn
n value faster than the amount needed st
o pay current expenses, increased; the st