People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — Afraid of the United States. [ARTICLE]

Afraid of the United States.

Washington, Jan. 15.—The United States seems to be looming up »in the minds of the Germans as the country most to be feared in the future as their campetitor in the world’s market. United States Consul Warner at Cologne, Germany, makes this trade rivalry the subject of a special report to the state department and he quotes freely from the German newspapers and technical papers to show that the Germans are thoroughly alarmed at the outlook. The German government, owning the railroads, has been warned that it must do everything possible by cutting rates on raw materials and export goods to aid the German manufacturers or see the foreign trade suffer at the hands of America.