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Show PEACEFUL PROSPECT NO PROBABILITY OF A TARIFF WAR WITH GERMANY. Threatened loaa tu lndnatrlea find Increnued Coal of lobslntence Oper-nle Oper-nle Stronixly In 1'rrrrnt Cnmnierrlul Ilotilltr Tnnard the ttultrd States. All la not xmooth huIHiik' with the scheme of lioxtlle tarlffH which the Oermnn Kovernment linn projected In the hope of frlKulcnltiK the Unlteil States Into the (Uirremler of the Amor-lean Amor-lean market to Ccriiinn exporters. The scheme, unlike the American phut of protection for all producing Interests, whether of the factory or the farm, was devNed chicly for the benefit of the laud owning Interests. It has ut no tltno been favorably regarded by German manufacturers, for they see In It uot nlone the prospect of decreased sales In the United Suites, but also a marked increase In the cost of living to German wage earners, as the result of higher duties on American foodstuffs. food-stuffs. Already the manufacturers ami business busi-ness men in many Industrial centers hac memorialized the government against it policy which they consider certain to provoke higher tariff duties In tiic Unlteil States against imports from Germany. Itlghtly they reason that In the event of the failure of the German threat to Induce the United States to enter Into 11 reciprocity dicker dick-er Gorman exports to this country must Inevitably suffer from tariff retaliation re-taliation on tl:o part of the United States. So they are petitioning the government to go slow In the enforcement enforce-ment of Its hostile maximum tariff against the I'ulted States. Opposition to the agrarian programme pro-gramme is oonxhmtlv 011 the Increase. According to a recent telegram, the prlee of tneut has risen L'O to 25 per cent In the last six mouths, ami there Is a clamor to the government to rnlse the prohibition against the Import of food cattle. Six public meetlng-i were held In Cologne, afid the Iterlln Hatchers' Hatch-ers' nssocl.it km Is planning a number of meetings, A still further Increase lu the price of m.it will occur when the higher HihcMluIes of the new Gorman tariff go into cll'eet 1.1 r March that Is, provided provid-ed these higher schedules shall go into effect, it Is far from settled that thu4 uar.-li discrimination against American products embodied In the propositi new tarlft will ever go into etlect. It Is far moro probable that before next 1 Ma tell rolls around the Gorman government gov-ernment will decide thnt commercial amity is preferable to commercial warfare war-fare with a country which buys $118,-000,000 $118,-000,000 u year of German manufactures manufac-tures and stands ready to sell to Germany Ger-many the best and cheapest foodstuffs to be had In the world. Itcasous for such a decision are to be found In abundance, aud they seem likely to Increase as time passes. All Germany would be glad to solve tho ugly problem by n reciprocity arrangement, arrange-ment, but If Uie United States should decllno to be a party to such a solution solu-tion Germany Is not likely to persist In 11 lino of actlou that would bring loss to her industries and added privation priva-tion nnd suffering to her wago earners. We are a long way from a tariff war with Germany, American reciprocity alarmists to the contrary notwithstanding. |