Show THE COMBINE AGAINST AMERICA Has European War Against American Ameri-can Manufactures Begun T his Is the question to which 0 P Austin chief of the bureau of statistics addresses himself In the November number of the North American Review It was suggested sug-gested to him by the fact which has attracted wide attention here and abroad that there has been a decided decline during the current year In the exports of American manufactures Mr Austin finds after careful analysis of Lime figures that the reduction Is almost I wholly in mineral oil Iron and steel and copper Unit the reduction mineral min-eral oil Is not In quantity but In price that the reduction In Iron and ntecl Is partly due to a fall In prices partly to forced sales in Germany und partly to I a general reduction In demand throughout through-out tho world and that the reduction In copper Is due partly to decreased der i 1 I mand abroad and partly to reduced prices In other producing countries Mr I I J Austin says I It can scarcely be charged that a general reduction exports in the list of manufactures of Iron and steel Including In-cluding electrical and metalworking machinery which go chiefly to Europe I builders hardware which goes to the West Indies South America and tho Orient engines which go to India Africa Af-rica and South America sewing machines ma-chines and typewriters which go to every part of the world where civilized I man Is J to bo found In any considerable numbers wire and wlro nallH wjilch I go to Australia and South AmerIca and 1 Africa Is due to a Kuiopean boycott1 The reduction Is 10 general und makes Itself apparent In so many purLs of the world ImulUntously that the cause cannot be found in a local Imosttitty I |