The Outlook, 1898, Vol. 58 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from The Outlook, 1898, Vol. 58

In the succeeding issue of the same journal Mr. Clarence Cary writes in like tenor, declar ing that our Government officials should be stirred to the early lodgment of a firm protest against interference with our present com mercial privileges. While at present our rapidly growing exports reach China under light duties and sheltered by the most-favored nation clause of the treaties, it is certain, according to Mr. Cary, that inside any Ger man or other European (except an English) port our goods will encounter a hostile and purposely exclusive tariff. The protest should be prompt, seeing that, at least for a short while, the grabbing powers will be measur ably conciliatory to others than the Chinese, and ready individually to approve such an attitude on our part as an embarrassment to their respective rivals. Mr. Cary predicts that, as has been the case in Africa, any foreign zones now installed on China's coasts will grow along the path of least resistance towards the interior, and, that though this result will doubtless wipe out the present obnoxious lib): (or inland barrier tax), the substitution of a chain of foreign colonial custom-houses will be no less insufferable. Mr. Cary also calls attention to the fact that our Minister to China is a man of large ex perience there and an uncommonly capable and stiff-backed American. He is now await ing the arrival of an untried successor - a kind of swapping of horses while crossing a stream - which is quite in keeping with our system of diplomatic changes ou' the advent of each new administration. We may add that if the partition of China arrays Russia, Germany, and France against England and Japan, our trade interests would lie with the latter. The former emphasize commercial monopoly, and Germany in particular is smart ing under the Dingley tariff. The freer trade characteristic of British policy has been imi tated by Japan, not only at home, but also in opening China to commerce at the expiration of the late war.

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