Word: trade
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Eastern countries know of the predominant place that Harvard occupies. In South America Pennsylvania, by means of the explorations carried on there by the professors of that university, is the best-known of North American educational institutions. In the Far East Yale has more men connected with the foreign trade of the United States than Harvard, while Cornell with a demand for its engineers which never ceases is represented by a number of graduates greater than those of Harvard and Yale combined. As the number of college men permanently or temporarily resident in foreign countries nearly represents the ratio...
What is the remedy? Instead of spending a year or two in continental countries acquiring culture men should go abroad and spend the same period of time engaged in the foreign trade of the United States, for the foreign trade of this country is as certain to develop after the end of the present war as the present...
This is no longer the nineteenth century when American always tried to keep to herself. The twentieth century is characterized by world-wide competition in trade and commerce. Why has England been at war with Germany? Is it not for commercial supremacy? At the termination of the war, I venture to predict that the competition in the world maker will be felt more and more keen, not between England and Germany but between American and the victorious party. Also I venture to predict that the busy market will be found in China, whose untold resource have long surprised the whole...
...upon the government to lend a hearty support to her own capitalists in their attempt to establish "a relation that would enable the United States to have an equal voice with the five other powers in guiding the development of Chin" and "to maintain the open door in her trade with that country." At the same time she will be doing the Chinese people a great service which I can assure any and every American they will never forget...
...only one real aim: 100 per cent. American rights, 100 per cent, business profits! There has been only one constructive suggestion: 100 per cent. Republican protective tariff, a measure avowedly intended to keep up high prices and restrict the one thing which would do everybody the most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes are willing to pay hard money for; you will find nothing but a plain, unvarnished appeal to the provincial American's pocket-book. High tariff! Business profits...