Show I THE DREAD OF AMERICAN COMPETITION A special cable to the Sun from Lon t i i don says I is edsy to understand I that McKInleys triumph was received with no enthusIasm on the continent especially In Germany and France The continental countries see much more clearly the impending seizure of foreign for-eign markets by American trade than doesGreat Britain The Republican victory this year the correspondent thinks makes certain an increase of I American trade to an extent surpassing surpass-ing anythlncr ever knmvti nnri inthnt nnr u reason the continental countries view the verdict of the American people with apprehension instead of satisfaction satisfac-tion On the other hand the English eem glad though there are many anxious anx-ious manufacturers in England whose who-se In the election returns a great blow to them both at home and abroad They had looked anxiously for the ejection ejec-tion of Bryan a return of the oldtime 1 1 depression and the possibility of financial I finan-cial panics in the United States AsH As-H Is things look gloom in Great Britain Brit-ain The increase in the cost of living during the pant two yeais has been severe and widespread labor troubles cannot much longer be averted The correspondent says that Ia visit to the International shoe and leather fair held j in London this week shows that nearly all the vast array of machinery in these worles Is American hat the British i Brit-ish manufacturers were compelled to adopt it As for the final product there are now twelve hundred shops in Great Britain dealing In American shoes Hold through I single agent Others Oth-ers are also rapidly developing trade What Is true or shoes IK true In almost I every line of American manufactures The Spectator says of McKinley IJo does not luy his ear to the ground out of meanness of spirit but out of n false conception us to what the Constitution Con-stitution requires o him Ills position In fact was thus defined In his brief I I speech to his fellow townsmen at Canton I Can-ton the day before the election when he told them that they must reverently walt the verdict of the peoplo That word reverently reveals at once his character in a weak light In the minds I of Americans who cannot be convinced I that the first duty of D true statesman a of any other good man may not be to meet public opinion with frank de fiance The prospect Is that the United Stat 8 will be hated worse 1 through continental Europe In the next ten years than England Itself IH 1 ant the reason lty > Jhat In spilsj of their cheap labor Europe cannot compete ullh the United wlh HniLd Stalest In those products prod-ucts out of which nations make HUloc1s most money That io when the raw product Is converted into Its highest commercial commer-cial form For years England held that sovereignty over the world in the coarser articles of commerce while France mado the world pay for iho brain which French artisans Infused into cheap articles In the last twenty five years since the FrancoPrussian war Germany has been encroaching i upon both countries And now tho United States with Its cheap food with its cheap raw material its native skill and its wonderful machinery Is offering such D defiance to all three of tho powers that they arc in half despair I de-spair |