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. There is a town in
Prussia that finished payment only twenty years ago on the indemnity
Napoleon exacted from it.

Can a country afford to develop an industrial system dependent upon an
outside world and then suddenly find the outside world closed by tariff
barriers?

When an American ambassador protested against Bismarck's discriminatory
treatment of American pork, the great chancellor asked, "What have you
to talk with? You have no army or navy." "No," said the American
ambassador, "but we have the ability to build them as big as anybody.
Do you wish to tempt us?" "No," said the German chancellor, "and your
goods shall not be discriminated against."

Dr. Dernburg has given the key to the German colonial military, tariff,
and financial policy. German unity in tariffs and transportation has
made German prosperity, and Dr. Dernburg, her former colonial secretary
and now in New York, says the mouth of the Rhine and the channel ports
must be free to Germany and that Belgium must come into tariff and
transportation union with Germany. Belgium is being taxed, tariffed,
pounded, and impounded into the German empire.

There is some difference in size between Belgium and Russia, but no
difference in principle with respect to their German relations.