Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-10-25
BY GEORGE II. CUSHING

~ was sun more IMAM hhlI IN trade
II recognized the present obligation
90 fight, II recognized quite as much
the need To have somo business upon
which % tall back when the war
should end II continued to ship 70
South America what coul II could
sparo. Then, one Of It's biggest coal
syndicates came here to buy our coal
lo supply on ITS own contracts. IuIs
syndicate openly proposed 10 keep It's
hold ou It's markets with our prouuct
our conservative conl men, instead
OF rescuting such tactics, participated
IN the development with % sigh OF re-
lief, They saw that the need TO com
pete with England would XIII off our
mushroom exporting companies. This
would save our good name. Also, they
saw that, to have been forced 10 take
the place of both England and Ger
many without anyone TO show us the
way would, IN all probability have
been TO bite off more than we could
chew 1t would have presented un-
told opportuEI .es for making costly
mistakes. When England volunteered
10 show Us the way II We would but
supply her customers, a few OF our
larger coal merchants saw that they
could learn from England how to
take care Of Germanys 5 share of that
trade. Also, with true Yankee shrewd-
ness, they saw another thing, As
England Is drawn further into war. 1t
VIII have to withdraw more from
trade. They as Englands under
study, Will know, then, how to take
EngIand's place.
That is, IN coal we are not plung-
ing into South America in the dark,
We are feeling our way slowly. once
FAMILIAR with the details Of financing,
shipping selling and distributing, We
can, with confidence, go 1t allne
This isolated incident suggests that
our foreign trade policy Will be one
Of cautious eNpension, in which we
yill learn the details before We try TO
90 anything very big.
Another isolated incident is quite
as significant one New y ork finan-
Clal news agency reports that one
coteric Of financicrs connected with
the New York Produce Exchange has
decided TO buy farm products from
South America and sell them to all
the world. / know nothing of the
financial responsibility of this house
The plan itself is good. To explain
his venture, the originator of the
movement said.
our country has, from its fouuda-
tion, been trained to sell fOodstuffs
to Europe. We have ORGANIZATIONS
now which make a speciality of just
that work. But our cities have been
growing SO much faster than our
farm products we soon will have no
more surplus food to sell. Rising
prices OF all foods warn us that we
will have export organizations with
nothing to SELL
lie says which is true-that South
America is where North America was
fifty years proficient mainly in
agriculture 1t has surplus food in
quantities to sell ana someone must
market il. He proposes that New
York shall supplaut Liverpool lilo
pictures "A plan IN which the financing
and selling offices shall be i'm New
York; the packing ana shipping sta
tions along the South American
coast and the reConsigning ware
: houses at either end OF the Panama
canal Thus will South America he
tied together and, in one business
unit feed the world. Thus, incident
ally. will we find new employment
for our big food exporting Organi2a-
tons.
Such small incidents are in these
disturbed days, rcyNing the traditions
of the American merchantmen Let
ting the imagination play upon such
things, We can see this nation buying
and selling tho surplus goods OF the