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Show ttunopE to AoMnirie AOAIrtST UNITED BTATEB. alfaatla Cnrain.rtlal Wl r.illelrd by Cnllxt aisles Tres.or; liaielsl. Frank A. Vanderlip, formerly ataltt ant secretary of tha treasury, who bat returned to Washington from a long trip abroad, says: "I think It Is not only possible but highly probable that Kuropa ean and will agree to binding terms of trade combination against ut within the next few ears, and that the result will be the most gigantic and stubborn commercial com-mercial war In the history of the world. A mott of our commercial treaties expire ex-pire In 1903, I look for the real beginning begin-ning of the war then In a refusal of most of the continental natlona to renew re-new those conventions. "At the present moment Austria, which never did llko ns, It leading In the movement against the United Slates, and 1 found Ooluehowskl, head of tha ministry of that country, out bitterest and most outspoken foe. Obviously Ob-viously tho other ministers of the Old World, Includlngeten thatof I'ogland, are artfully encouraging (loluchowskl In his course of opposition, with a view of drawing our lire before they openly declare themselves. "For the Immediate future our trade prospect were never brighter In Ku-rope. Ku-rope. There lis been almost a total crop failure In Germany. The agricultural agricul-tural outlook I only a llttlo brighter In Franca than In (lermany, aud even In Hngland the crop yield I not rery promising. Hut aa toon a tho continent conti-nent recover from It present agrlcul- tursl depression I confidently boiler the tocsin of war will be sounded. In Ilussla there are loud profession of I friendship for the United State, and ouo heara many expression of adral-I adral-I ration of our commercial development j and method. The Itusslan are mod I cling their tariff system after oura, I and In n, few yeara will try to apply ll with vigor and aeverlty against all nation alike, but particularly against tha United States. |