The trade of the world . Photograph by Brown Bros. Docks and Shipping, Kotterdnm. Iuotograph by Biowa Bros. The Mornings Milk, Amsterdam, Holland. BELGIUM, THE BALANCE-WHEEL 141 principle strong in England, without discouragingthe productive power of the exceptional unit whichis needed for successful competition in the free-for-all markets of the trade of the world. In bothBelgium and Holland labor is organized to an in-tense degree, but as a body the producers havebeen self-taught through experience that by virtueof the character of their national trade their ab-solute power must be
The trade of the world . Photograph by Brown Bros. Docks and Shipping, Kotterdnm. Iuotograph by Biowa Bros. The Mornings Milk, Amsterdam, Holland. BELGIUM, THE BALANCE-WHEEL 141 principle strong in England, without discouragingthe productive power of the exceptional unit whichis needed for successful competition in the free-for-all markets of the trade of the world. In bothBelgium and Holland labor is organized to an in-tense degree, but as a body the producers havebeen self-taught through experience that by virtueof the character of their national trade their ab-solute power must be exercised with intelligenceand caution. This is one of the most valuable sug-gestions which can be secured from a careful studyof the foreign trade of the Low Countries. There is an air of romance and interest surround-ing the foreign trade of Holland that is found inno such degree elsewhere. The warehouses ofEotterdam and Amsterdam are redolent of spicesand the strange products of far-off places. Dutch-man and Levantine jostle each other on the quays,and the stevedores are continually
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