The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-09-29

millions OF tnat comes from the cOun-
tries now at war, Is 1t any wonder
that fifteen cent sugar is predicted
by many people?
People have been worrying vastly
about how we would get our goods
for foreign markets when we have
no ships. and so many ships belong
ing to the warning countries are not
safe on the high seas. Secretary
Sweet had views on that subject. but
something else WAS worrying him
more.
IN this discussion about selling
the markets in South America, the
Orient, and other parts of the world
now supplied by Germany" he said,
they seem to lose sight of the great
ly increased home market We have to-
fill before we can send things away.
The finest stroke American business
could perpetrate would be to seize
this home market, and seize it so
firmly that we could keep it in all
the future. After we have taken It
once we would keep 1t more easily
than we could keep any captured for
eign market. There would be more
profit in it, and more national indie,
pendence in being able to supply 1t.
There'Ii Be Ships, Never Fear
For instance, take dyes, cotton
and cotton cloths. 1t always seemed
ridiculous to me that we raise most
OF the worlds cotton and then ship
to other countries big bulk Of what
we raise, to be manufactured. Even
the part We ourselves manufacture
has to be finished with foreign ma
terlals; the Germans provide us with
nearly all the dyestuffs we use.
$50 it appears that we raise the
be manufactured, and keep the rd
mainder to make up at home; and
when it's woven into cloth We finish
it with German dyes!
There will be no German dyes for
us after month or SO; supplies on
hand will be exhausted. What are we
to do them"
"Why not make our OWN" l in.
quired innocently.
mo reason at ALL" was the reply.
There's no mystery about them. We
could make them; only, like so many
other things that we ought to do,
we've never bothered to do 1t. Now
we've got to, and we will. l learn
that interests are already organizing
to take up the manufacture on a big
scale. 10
THAT means capturing a big home
market. 1t means that in future we
will make our own dyes, our cloth in
dustries will be more Independent
because we make them, and we will
have this big business in our own
hands instead of having it make us
tributary to Germany.
You see what | mean, now, by
capturing the home market away
from the foreigners?
I'VE supply big proportion of the
copper that is used in the electrical
industries of the world, but we are
so innocent as to let them have our
copper metal instead of keeping it
here and making this country the
headquarters of electrical manufac-
taIes. There's another great oppor-
tunity for selling a home market
away from the foreigners.
Before we're done with this ire.
mendous, revolutionary economic ex-
perience precipitated by the war, we
will be realizing how much more we
could do and ought to do for our
selves; and Wen be doing 1t too, be-
cause Wen have to.
so far as concerns ships to send
our products abroad | am not great
ly worried about that. The hungry
man is going to hustle for something
to eat good deal more enthusiastic
cally than somebody else will hustle
for the privilege of selling food to
him. That's the way with the ma.
tons. We are very anxious to sell
our grains and meats, but not half
so anxious as Europe will be to get
them, especially If the war is long.
"The upshot of it will be that the
other countries will provide ways to
move our products, to insure them,
and to convoy them safely to the 9th
er side. or course we are going to
do everything possible for ourselves
In this regard, but even If we didn't
the foreigners could be relied on to
do everything in their power to open
access to our stocks of provisions and
other necessaries.
81 don't anticipate that there will