Europe has for some years expected a German dash in Patagonia, and the Europeans outside of Germany have taken very kindly of late years to the Monroe Doctrine.
In Africa and the islands of the sea the German colonial policy has not been a success.

Dr.Dernburg as colonial secretary has many a time stood up in the Reichstag and warned the Germans that the home military system and rules were not adaptable to colonization in foreign parts; that Germans must adapt themselves to foreign countries and not attempt at first to make their manners the standard in the colonies they undertook to dominate.
While German colonies have not yet passed beyond the experimental stage, German tariffs and German commerce have been great successes.
The population of Russia is 166,000,000 people.

This is the latest figure I gathered from those intimate with the government at St.
Petersburg.

This is just 100,000,000 more than Germany.

Germany thinks she must trade to her own advantage with the people now crowding her eastern border.
The example of America in putting up tariff bars against "Made in Germany" has many advocates in England and in the rest of the world.
When France, only a few years ago, was angered that Italy should sign up in "triple alliance" with Austria and Germany, she did not dare to attack Italy with arms, but she did attack Italy by tariff measures, and for a time Italy and France fought--by tariffs.
What might be the position of Germany if the American protective tariff system were expanded over the earth?
In the view of some people tariffs, taxation, and armaments go hand in hand.