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steel, etc., we load these British industries with some increased cost, or some inferiority of production, so hampering them for competition in export trade, and even for competition in our own markets with articles imported from foreign countries that take advantage of the superior German methods. Suppose, as is most likely, no efforts enable us to make aniline dyes as well or as cheaply as long years of scientific practice and business organization have enabled German firms to make them, our coloured textiles will compete in all foreign markets at a definite disadvantage, not merely with German goods, but with the goods of other foreign countries, such as the United States, admitting German dyes. Why should we force our consumers and our business men to buy at a disadvantage in order to injure German sellers?

No doubt it seems at first sight us if Germany could not hit back with equal force, our Imperial (and Allied) markets being so much more important to their