Great Britain today can not place any ban against our agricultural products. because she needs them and must have them. because they can not be raised there in sufficient quantities. but whenever we invade the markets of Germany or Great Britain or France with manufactured products they can. for selfprotection. raise the wall of duties against us. so as to cut off our field there entirely. We can not sell manufactured fabrics to England or Germany. The world knows this law of trade and it knows the present trade conditions. The world is not onehundredth part so large as it was a century ago. and the commercial eye of man scans its every foot. Our Asiatic trade is in its infancy. It is destinedif the interest of the Government is properly directed toward itto soon become a giant in its proportions. The business men of the country see this.