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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: 



Mr. Cliambet Iain's Proposals. . 

 Rubber and the Congo System 

 Minor Editorial 



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Rubber Planting on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec-III. ...The Editor 331 



[Clearing and Burning by Contract. Gathering and Testing Castil- 

 loa Seed. Visit to Plantation " Rubio." On Horseback Through 

 Miles of Rubber. The Tapping Problem.] 



Notes on Rubber Exploitation. 337 



[Sale of a Straits Settlements Rubber Estate. Rubber Exports from 

 Ceylon. Yield of Lhe Para Rubber Tree. Larye Profits in African 

 Rubber Trading. Ptenling Companies in Mexico, Cuba, and Ceylon.] 



The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



— Our Regular Correspondent 339 



[Congo State Affairs. Motor and Tire Notes. Mechanical Rubber 



Prices. Rubber Trade Journals. Card Clothing Trade. Rubber 

 in a New ftook. Advertising by Rubber Men.] 



The Rubber Stamp Trade illustrated) 

 Adulteration of Rubber 1 Illustrated). 

 India Rubber Goods in Commerce 



The Congo Controversy 



Recent Rubber Patents 1 American, British, German] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber (Illustrated) 



[The Fawkes Airless Tire, The MacMahon Solid Rubber Vehicle 

 Tire. Means of Attaching Tire to Rim. Hart's Rubber Sponge. 

 Rath Brush.] 



The Textile Goods Market 



Miscellaneous 



obituary 



New Trade Publications 



Chicago Bolivian Rubber Co. (Illustrateit\ 



Rubber Suggested for a Bridge Floor 



Some Wants of the Rubber Trade 



Value to Germany of Export Trade 



The Commercial Pacific Cable 



Another Rubber District Exhausted 



International Cable Director; 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



The Trade in .Akron Our Correspondent, 



The Trade in Trenton.. Our Correspondent 



The Trade In Kansas city Our Correspo 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 



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MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S PROPOSALS. 



' I 'HE proposal by the British colonial secretary of the 

 1 principle of preferential tariffs as between the differ- 

 ent parts of the empire, if given practical effect, would 

 prove of more consequence than any economic program 

 that could be adopted by any other country, on account of 

 Great Britain's preeminence to-day in the world's com- 

 merce. Indeed, the abolition of the principle of free trade 

 in the country of its origin would mark the beginning of a 

 readjustment of the relations to each other of the commer- 

 cial powers. 



But Mr. Chamberlain's scheme remains to be adopted, 

 even on paper. And something more than statutory en- 

 actment would be needed to give it effect. The real problem 

 before this brilliant English statesman is not to gain the 

 support of his government for his policy, or even to win 

 the adherence of the voters. The question is whether, un- 

 der any circumstances, the thing which he aims at can be 

 done — that is, can the British dominions beyond the seas 

 replace the rest of the world in supplying the markets of 

 the mother country with food and raw materials? 



To illustrate the problem we may observe that, though 

 Canada already admits British manufactures under a pref- 

 erential tariff, while high duties are imposed by the United 

 States, Great Britain continues to buy wheat in the latter 

 country, as if Canada had not large areas suited for wheat 

 growing. The Canadians feel that, in view of their loyalty 

 to the empire, some reciprocal sentiment should lead the 

 mother country to adopt a policy helpful to their colony. 

 The fact that the United States so largely supply England 

 with wheat to day means that, on an even basis, Canada 

 cannot compete in that market. Hence the demand for a 

 discriminating tariff in favor of the Canadian farmer. 

 The result would be a higher cost of bread in England for 

 a long time to come, with no probability that the increased 

 price would soon largely develop wheat growing in Canada. 



Before Canada can supply Great Britain with wheat 

 there must be a vast addition to her agricultural popula- 

 tion ; great areas now forest covered must be settled and 

 brought under cultivation — a task in itself for a genera- 

 tion, before the new districts could do more than supply 

 themselves with food. Canada has good wheat lands, but 

 wheat farming is not the end of existence, and millions of 

 people cannot be expected to make their homes in a given 

 district merely to produce wheat for the Liverpool markets, 

 even if thereby the ties that bind an empire together are 

 strengthened and the ambitions of a colonial secretary fur- 

 thered. If the conditions of life in rural Canada otherwise 

 do not appeal to people, they may prefer, in order to live 

 elsewhere, to do something else than grow wheat. Be 

 sides, their position would be precarious if dependent upon 

 the maintenance of a food tax in England, which might be 

 swept away any day by a change of sentiment among the 

 voters. 



Neither Mr. Chamberlain nor all England can change 

 the location of wheat production on the world's surface as 

 figures are moved on a chess board. England has tried 

 long and in vain to transfer the sources of her cotton sup- 



