Are We Ruined By The Germans?

About this eBook

Author

Cox, Harold, 1859-1936

Title

Are we ruined by the Germans?

Credits

Produced by Irma Spehar, Markus Brenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications

Subject

Germany -- Commerce -- Great Britain

Category

Text

eBook-No.

31163

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31163

Release Date

February 3, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ARE WE RUINED BY THE GERMANS?
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. Our Expanding Trade. — THE ART OF EXAGGERATION. — THE WHOLE TRUTH. — OUR TOTAL TRADE FOR TEN YEARS. — Ten Years’ Trade of the United Kingdom — OUR IMPORTS OF GOLD AND SILVER. — The Movements of Bullion and Specie. — EXCESS OF IMPORTS OVER EXPORTS. — THE WORLD’S TRIBUTE. — OUR ENTREPÔT TRADE. — Our Entrepôt Trade and our Home Trade.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. Germany: One of Our Best Customers. — Our Total Trade with German Ports. — A VERY SATISFACTORY TRADE. — Analysis of our Trade with German Ports. — OUR PRINCIPAL CUSTOMERS. — Trade of the United Kingdom with the following Countries. — Trade of the following Countries with the United Kingdom. — THE ALARMIST’S ARTS. — A SELF-DESTRUCTIVE POLICY. — Trade of the following British Possessions with the United Kingdom and with Germany.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. Picturesque Exaggerations. — THE ALKALI TRADE. — Exports of Alkali from the United Kingdom. — Diagram of the Quantities of British Alkali Exported. — CHEMICAL MANURES. — Exports of Chemical Manures from the United Kingdom. — SOME SUPPOSITIONS ABOUT SALT. — Exports of British Salt. — Indian Imports of Salt. — CHEMICAL DYE STUFFS. — Values of Dye Stuffs Exported. — FANCY SOAPS AND FANCY ASSERTIONS. — Exports of Soap from the United Kingdom.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. More Misrepresentations. — “ICHABOD! OUR TRADE HAS GONE.” — Production of Pig Iron. — COMPARISONS SAID TO BE “ODIOUS.” — Iron and Steel Goods. — STATISTICAL LEGERDEMAIN. — Fifteen Years of British Shipbuilding. — SHIPS BUILT FOR FOREIGNERS. — Ships Built by us for Foreigners. — WAR-SHIPS FOR FOREIGNERS. — War Vessels Built for Foreigners. — MACHINERY AND STEAM ENGINES. — Exports of Machinery of All Kinds. — TEXTILES. — COTTON YARN AND THE PRICE THEREOF. — THE DAYS OF BIG FORTUNES. — Textiles. — Piece Goods, etc. Ten Years’ Exports. In Millions of Yards. — LINEN, SILK, AND WOOLLENS. — THE EXPANSION OF OUR WOOLLEN INDUSTRY. — Persons Employed in Woollen and Worsted Mills. — THE NATURE OF GERMAN COMPETITION. — THE “PERCENTAGE TRICK.”
8. 8.CHAPTER V. Our Growing Prosperity. — Twenty-Five Years’ Shipping to and from Ports of the United Kingdom. — British and Foreign Shipping. — THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR RAILWAYS. — The Railways of the United Kingdom. — LENGTHENING TRAM LINES. — POST OFFICE EXPANSION. — EVER-GROWING INCOMES. — Income Tax Assessments. — Yield per Penny of the Income Tax. — REDUCTION OF NATIONAL DEBT. — The Indebtedness of the Nation. — SOME STAPLE COMMODITIES. — Consumption of Cotton, Wool, and Coal in the United Kingdom. — PERSONAL AND DOMESTIC EXPENDITURE. — Tea, Sugar, and Tobacco.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. Let Well Alone. — THE CASE FOR PROTECTION. — THE ALLEGED EXPANSION OF GERMAN TRADE. — British and German Trade Compared. — WOULD PROTECTION HELP US? — ON WHAT SHALL WE LAY A TAX? — A NEW ROAD TO FORTUNE. — INTER-IMPERIAL TRADE. — Imports into the following British Possessions. — THE COST TO THE COLONIES. — Trade of British Possessions with Germany. — WHAT CAN WE OFFER? — Colonial versus Foreign Goods. — DIVERGENT AMBITIONS. — A DREAM OR A NIGHTMARE? — DOES TRADE UNITE? — A NEXUS STRONGER THAN CASH.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. Conclusion. — NOT ONLY A PROTECTIONIST PAMPHLET. — TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND THE METRIC SYSTEM. — NO SIGNS OF DECAY. — THE CRY OF “WOLF!”
11. 11.APPENDIX. — THE “ADVOCATUS DIABOLUS.” — NOT A PROTECTIONIST PAMPHLET. — THE CHARGE OF DATE-COOKING. — “ARTFUL AND INGENIOUS.” — THE ABUSE OF STATISTICS. — EXCESS OF IMPORTS OVER EXPORTS. — THE ALKALI TRADE. — THE CHEMICAL MANURE TRADE. — SOAP IMPORTS FROM GERMANY. — IMPORTS OF IRON. — A “PETTY ACCUSATION.” — FANCIFUL FOREBODINGS? — A WARNING.

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