The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-09-03
THE GERMANS.

what wonderful people the Germans
have shown themselves in the last cen
tury and particularly since the estab-
llshment Of peace and security with
the empire.
Here is country with an area only
slightly larger than that OF Missouri,
Kansas and Iowa combined, with
scanty Resources, and with much poor
soil Yet suclI has been the genius OF
the German people for organization,
so great their industry and thrift, that
in little more than n generation they
have come to the front as one o. the
great industrial people OF the world
On this small area, much Of it sandy
soil they raise agricultural products
valued at almost third Of the value
OF the entire agricultural output of
this rich United States.
Their success as manufacturers and
traders is no less astounding In 1889
Germany prod uced q million tons OF
pig iron. 20 little more than ~ mil.
lion tons by the United States. Last
year the German production had risen
to l7Is million tons, and that OF the
United States to II, ,727 600 tons--a ten
fold increase for Germany TO four
fold increase for this country. In the
same quarter Of century, German
foreign trade increased lS0 per cent
and while American foreign trade in
creased slightly more, 1856 per cent,
the American trade was still nearly
1000 million dollars less than the Ger
man, which had reached the enormous
total OF more than five billion dollars.
The way in which German science
has worked for the development Of
German industry has been one of the
marvels of the world. The great
chemical industry, which has reached
huge proportions, is entirely the pro,
duct of applied science Up to 1897,
for instance, the Germans had been
importing vegetable indigo. In that
year a Munich chemist, Doctor Bayer,
devised an artificial indigo. The i'm
ports OF million dollars worth Of in
digo year almost Immediately turned
into exports of 10 million dollars worth
OF artificial indigo. Useless by prod ucts
OF gas and coke manufacture have been
turned by German skill into dye stuGs
of which 30 million dollars worth are
exported in year. The companies
manufacturing chemicals n few years
ago had a combined capital of l25 mil
lion dollars.
As an English writer. Mr. + D..
Howard has put il; THE technical
schools and university laboratories
may be regarded as the corner stone
of the nations industrial greatness"
From 1910 TO 1860 Great Britain had
double the railway mileage Of Germany
IN 1870 It was still four thousand miles
ahead. But in the next seventeen
years Germany added twenty three
thousand miles and doubled its mile
age, and ten years later it had nearly
doubled the mileage OF Great Britain.
It was as If Germany had been lying
fallow until Bismark made possible the
realization OF its nationality, aud the
enormous industrial development set
in, with railroads, electricity and
chemicals.
This brief survey of the remarkable
achievements of industrial Germany
passes by entirely its great work in
music, IN literature, in philosophy, in
history, in every department. of re-
search The facts are here cited mere
ly to emphasize the profound regret
that must everywhere exist that such
achievements should be in danger OF
being in part, at least, swept away in
the devastation of a hurriedly under
taken world war.-Kansas City Star.
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