Show GERMANY OUR RIVAL The reports of John M Carson chief ehler of the bureau of or manufactures In the department of commerce and labor re reviewing reviewing reviewing viewing the Industries and commerce of the Central American countries ies show that Germany has Invaded every e er possible possible possible ble field eld and to Is a II strong competitor In Guatemala the United States furnished 49 per cent of the imports with the United Kingdom and Germany follow follo following log leg with SS per cent each of the UIO total The principal export of Guatemala to Is coffee In Iii 1907 l Germany took 54 4 per percent percent cent of the crop the United States 33 anti and the United Kingdom 11 per p po r cent centor centOr or Of all KU the exports during duHn the same year Germany took 52 2 per cent the United States 34 14 and aDd the United Kingdom II It per pet cent These figures are given to show to what wb t extent the Germans are doing business in Central America merlon The United States Stat although a n neighbor does not furnish the five Central Amer Amen American ean ican republics J with anything like the amount of manufactured articles and foodstuffs that thet it should The Isles idea In Inthis Inthis Inthis this country in times Umes past has boon been to supply the home house market marlet at high prices under the system of protection prote and let the foreign markets go SU Recently there has been an effort to do business over oer the world and naturally the prices must be low enough to bear comparison with those thOle charged by the manufacturers ers era of or Germany Gennan and Groat Great Britain Thus it ft quite frequently happens that American made goods can be purchased more cheaply cheap abroad than at home Probably in the Ule future futuro the United States will III control the trade of both South and Central America In the meantime It Il is well to fo o take notice that th t Germany German Is our chief rival rather than Great Britain In the Oriental countries the United States Great Britain and Germany also confront each other in a commercial way a and the situation is further com complicated by b the appearance of ot Japan as a buyer bu er and seller seUer Since the Russo Rus Japanese war the children of the tie Bus Ris Rising I lag ing In Sun have been inclined to take forcible possession poss slon of the Chinese trade and notwithstanding the promises of an ano open o n door commerce has been greatly grooth hampered The United States should have a large share of the trade of the Orient and under ordinary conditions be master of the situation i The articles needed by b the natives in all countries are enumerated by our consuls consul abroad abr d and published by b the department of commerce and labor each day dB Every facility is offered for the sale of American goods and there Is no good reason why wh the merchants and manufacturers of the United States should pot not conquer the world with their wares I |