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Show ENGLISH NOf E Ihe Lngl uote ep uj, to o uo e u cnl j utc t a st ea B t ans efe ho taletoe tral o t c Ul t t ik 11 anl a t teu s o to Lngl b go ern nent a e 1 e t to r p o ug that te B ta wl ha u a a lo 1 as not ta n a ag ot tie t o ton aeBthtal to t I o nt es The argu nent i based h eflv o the contention that-Vhereas A er can trade has greatly increased Br t sh trade has decreased Theie is aln ost a plant e note n the passages vh ch po nt o t the tre endo s ncrease ot Amer can export traie all over the world and a po nt s made ot the fact that what e e we ha e lost by cason of inter feren e with our trade to Holland Bel g n an 1 the Scand na an ount es s more than compensated for by the a graentat on of o r ommeroe with other countries This has, absol tely nothing to do with the case and if it shows anj thing it Shows that the Eng hsh governn nt s n a fit of the blues be ause it has permitted o r trade to grow in So th America and elsewhere The weakness of the Br tish note is re ealed in the follow ng passage Among the British products all ar tides show a decrease in the total quan tity exported with the few unimpor tant exceptions of malt nee lard co coanut oil and palm oil Any ncrease n Brit sh exports of cotton and woolen goods to these (Scandinavian) countries and to the allies of Great Britain is largely due to the fact that the French and Bel gian textile industry districts are m German occupation while the output of the German industry itself is con Siderably curtailed by the lack of la bor for other than war industries these countries have therefore increased their imports from the nearest available source which is the United States tfhen American trade increases I to neutral countries of Europe it is due1 to the re-exportation of goods from the neutral countries to German accord ng to the argument of the Inglish government but when English trade to neutral countries increases it is due to some other cause. All of the articles mentioned in the foregoing passage are scarce in Germany and doubtless Ger many has been receiving some of the English goods landed in neutral conn tries Indeed the charge was made openly by at least one of the English papers eight or ten months ago If our memory serves us nghtly the com plaint had to do with cotton and co ena |