Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-11-12
THE WARS LESSON.

of minerals great agricultural tracts and the only thought was
to produce much possible in the smallest amount of time
and it only of late have discovered that profit
gate waste and extravaganza the scramble of greed had
threatened the extinction of timber supply and mineral
deposits and had rapidly diminished the productivity of
agricultural lands
We have been neglecting the small things These were
ignored Not Germany and of her neghbors To IL
ustrate present Of big thngshe textile industry
lis greatly handicapped by the small available supply of
anne dyes essential in coorng the fabrics manufactured
The little thng-anine dyes-are made almost exclu-
svely Europe Germany being the largest producer These
dyes manufactured from that black inert substance
coal tar, and it that the Germans hold the
manufacture AT rate the matter is serious and all the
tariffs in the world cannot help the textile manufacturers
this time for they asked for protection bg tng and
now the ''little things" control.
Did read the story of coal When petroleum
industry started in the United States this byproduct
WHICH seemed to have little available use and the additional
supply only increased the which accumulated the
coke 1t could be sold given away at that time
and was dumped waste.
Over in England it discovered that besides carboc
ACID which obtained from coal tar that other valuable
ingredients were contained in it, among which were
dying properties of greatest efficiency.
The English scientists made the discovery but only the
frugal enterprsng German it's worth and took steps
perfect the of manufacture venture
AS result Germany soon built up paying industry,
which made milonaires and has also made English textile
dependent her. and also like tariff protect
ed producers the United States Not coal tar and
boc acid did the Germans obtain from coal they got
products which substitutes for perfumes substitutes for
avorng extracts medicinal preparations and other
ons In Germany IS cent of the products Of all the coal
burnt is utilized while the United States only per cent of
the coal products is utilized Coal products includes petro
eum products And the wealth obtained from coal alone
IN Germany last $12O00O0O which shows what we
have wasted and given away.
England may take advantage of the patented German
method of making enne because of the beneficial prov
sions of her patent laws she little better off than the
United States who would have pay big royalties for the use
OF the German patents for neither country there enough
skilled chemists necessary to perform the work. years
past when Germany has been steadily engaged in
work to perfect the discovery of foreign brothers in Eng
land and the United States both of those countries have been
idle. ~
The peculiar part of the the fact that Germany
depends principally the United States for the coal tar for
she has no petroleum fields and have been shipping our
coal tar to Europe 365OOOO0 pounds last year. of which
amount Germany got onehird and Belgium one-ffth and
then we turned around and imported 100000 pounds Of
boc ACID alone onethd from Germany for which paid
exclusive OF freight and other expenses $67OO OF other
coal tar products including anne dyes coor medicinal
paratlons and the like imported last year OOO
Think of it ship $5OOO worth of coal tar (crde state
value the and then import products made from
valued at more than - - million dollars And the worst part
the matter that told that have proper fac
ties for the manufacture Of these products and now the
OF supply has been cut off by the war
We are indebted to the American Review of Reviews for
the gres gwen above They show that Germany take pro-
uucs when we waste products and chem
Gals Tor which we millions and which indispensable ol
the welfare of of greatest industries These tte
things sometimes prove to be big indeed We had the
protective tariff mania long and deemed it the only
essential to our prosperity that have allowed the country
against whom we built high tariff walls control the DESTINY
OF one of our greatest manufacturing industries
what has the protective tariff done the cotton indus
try Now that the warning are not buyer of cotton
having closed their mills find that cotton is drug ON the
market down south Why has tariff protected cotton
manufacturers taken all of cotton? Thousands clam
or IN South America for manufactured goods and now we
cover that cannot take advantage the trade WHY
nave no sufficient banking connections with South Amer
ca TO assist handling trade there do we have sbns
carry our goods depend Germany England to do
tha and there they got ahead of us again
Germany and England established foreign banknp branch
TO handle their trade and neglected it. and we were
TO use these banking branches in our export trade
ne majority OF manufactured cotton goods were sbnnod