10 — 
THE WORLü’s FAIRS 
in older to sliow that economical con- 
sideratious, and not a feeling of hostility 
for the French people or their government, 
were the motives of tlda deeision. 
The United States have seut very in- 
sufticient samples of their produetiou to 
all the last European exhibitions, and it 
has been entirely impossible to form a 
correct idea of the developement and 
resjtources of the country from their de- 
partment. 
Such abstinence or insufficient partici- 
pation cannot fail to be injurious to the 
economical interests of a country taken in 
their totality. The liens of solidarity, 
which connect. tbe economical interests of 
the world, are not loosened with impunity, 
and it remains as true for a whole country 
as for an individual, that he who lags 
behind is soon set aside by a more aetive 
competitor. Thus we find Germany 
punished for her insufficient representation 
at Philadelphia by the Wholesale branding 
of her produetiou with the trade mark 
“poor and cheap," or as it has latterly 
been improved “poor anddear.” Already 
at Vienna in 1873 the want of a pre" 
liminary judicious selection of the articles 
to be exhibited made itself feit in the 
German department. It seemed as if it 
had been thought nccessary to prove