CORRESPONDENCE. GERMANY AND BRITAIN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10264, 16 June 1911, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

GERMANY AND BRITAIN.

! [To The Editor. T sfr, Your article m iSkarsSay'A paper on "Germanjs afEortft rood for thmight, aild induces Ia; comparison* between Gerlnan and | Briitifsh methods of securing and' j maintaining trade supremacy. Home I papers tell us of the mighty battleships' that ore being turned out almost weekly by these two Powers. At the same time we hear of the great strides being made in th© scientific education' of' the workmen in Germany, whilst in, this respect there is a complete silence in regard to scientific education in England, The inference is that ih' on© country every attention i<g being paid to this important matter, while in the other it as .neglected. The result, must be that the nation whoee people have the knowledge, will ultimately siucceed in having the power, for* "knowledge is power." rn;the Umited - States the scientific training of-arti-sans receives every encouragement from the Government, and the principals of the- large trading concern® in, ,tha* cxrantry. All these three" nations' are building up large fleets, and the principal reason is to command the world's trade. This must be . a great drain upon the wealth of each country, and Britain, being the wealthiest should hold out the longest, al other things being equal. But are other , things, equal•?.. Eviidfiint'ly »ot, > and. •: the United States and Geirmiany &ive ;_ ..recognised • that" science; will have- a -- great bearing upon the wealth / of . their respective countries; and ane tihereforie taking- the steps necessary to make their artisans superior to \ others, wihilst Britain appears to rely upon the wealth it has already accumulated. Then we have the spectacle of the -Premier of one of the Dominions giving to the Mother Country a two-million battleship. Such a sum expended in giving soienilific education to the artd'sans of the ■ Dominion would have'proved a greater benefit to -tine Mother Country than the presentation., of a two-mil-lion Dlreadnought with a. probable five years' life. In yesterday's Age appears a telegraphic report of a deputation of Weiiington ironmasters, who, headed by Mr J. P. Luke, M.P. waited on the Minister for Oustolms and asked him to build a tariff wall to protect the industry in which they were .interested. In another part of the same paper appears a, cablegram from Washington, in which' -it is stated tile Tariff was attacked in the House of Representatives: "Mr Redfield, (Democrat) claimed that protection enabled American manufacturers to. sell at such high prices tihaV they' did not- study their own conditions, and relied upon Government suport instead of business management. Mr Redfield denied that foreign labour v was cheaper than American, saying that the latter produced more in proportion, to the wages received." * There you hare the, whole matter. The Americans by their soienttii&c skill can hold their own against the world, and do not" need to be .bolstered up with protection.— I am, etc.,

"LABOUR."