Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-18
ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

The rise of Germany in the arts and
industries of peace is as noteworthy
as her recent eminence in warfare
This fact has attracted Worldwide
attention of late. and there has been
in some quarters a disposition TO at
tribute Germany's growth to her
policy OF very moderate protective tar
IFS and of bounties on certain nigh
class manufactures like chemicals and
sugar,
The advocates OF low tariffs In this
country arc pointing to Germany S
progress as compared with our own as
an example of what low protective du-
ties accomplish. The advocates of
high protection, on the other hand. are
pointing to Germany as having over
taken Britain in the arts and Indus
tries. and attribute the moro rapid
growth of Germany to the merits OF
a protective policy as compared with
British free trade
But neither free trade nor protection
IL
tIonal prosperity lie much deeper;
though one OF the other of these rival
policies may especially stimulate GER
tain Industries and certain phases of
national development.
List. the Great German economist,
once declared England "a world With
in itself, a world which Is superior to
the whole rest of the world In power
and wealth" And In the days OF Cob
den. that reformer was free to main
tain that Great Britain is and al
ways will be the workshop of the
world"
Today it Is Germany rather than
England that is the workshop OF the
world" although the total wealth OF
Britain still continues to be by far the
greatest of the European nations that
are larger and more populous than
Britain. and second only to the wealth
of America.
Industrial efficiency. however. de-
pends upon education; in this respect
Germany leads among modern nations.
1t is chiefly. too, in higher education
nations. In the commoner kinds OF
industrial education, such as hand
work of any kind. other peoples are
not notlceably inferior to the Ger
mans. 1t is mainly in chemical, en-
gineering. electrical. and other high
class industrial activities, the success
OF which depends so largely upon coll
legc and university training, that the
Germans are distinctively in the lead
Ellis Barker in his exhaustive study,
Modern Germany declares that
England has been quite cut out OF the
race of Industrial progress. He shows
that in 1850 Great Britain produced
more than twice as much steel as Ger
many. In 1895 Germany produced
nearly twice as much steel as Great
Britain. Brltains yearly steel pro-
duction In those sixteen years in
creased less than hvefold: German
steel production increased eighteen
fold.
In the domain of commercial chem
istry, in the production OF sugar, and
In scientific agriculture Germany also
takes the lead In Europe, according TO
this writer, who tells us:
Wonderful has been the growth of
the chemical Industries in Germany.
In many OF which she has gained n
virtual monopoly. Yet Germany is
dependent upon foreign countries for
the raw material OF these Industries
and To a great extent for tho lnvcn-
tions upon which the Industries aro
based. Perhaps the most striking cx-
ample Is that of anllIn dyes. made
from coal-tar This remarkable In
Vention Is due to Mr w H. Perkins
an Engllshman. but II Is I'm Germany
that the invention has been utilized,
1t lis Germany that exports some c5.-
100000 worth OF these dyes annuaIIv
largely made OF English coal-tar IN
is Germany that, by the production of
synthetic indigo. has thrown 5oO mo
acres In India, that fifteen years ago
were producing indigo. almost entirely
out OF cultivation. 1t Is Germany that.
through the skill OF her chemists hna
so extraordinarily increased the WELD
OF sugar from beet-root and made that
industry so profitable and that product
40 cheap. that. besides producInp ali
the sugar required for her population
OF over 6o.00O.O09. she exports e1o 0o0
900 worth annually. and the West-In-
dian sugar industry has been ruInod
The output OF German chemical Indus
try-not Including sugar. which IL og-
rlgultural producc-is estimated M
about 100000 900 annually of which
e20.000,000 Is exported. Nearly 200
600 hands are employed, and their
wages amount to nearly 10000 COO stcr-
| ling yearly"
Germany must hnve more room. Tho
Monroe doctrine bars 1t from Bra
] I'll. and only the English colonies re-
main among the places suitable for