Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-11-12
ASSERTS RUSSIAN
TRADE LIES At
AMERICA DOOR
Former Argentine Minister Tells
Board of Trade of Export
Opportunities.

ptdn war OlIerS the united States OF
reaching the valuab Russian mar
kcts was explained last night at the
regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Trade at its headquarters,
500 Broad street, by Charles II. Sher-
riil, former United States minister to
Argentine. Mr.. Sheriff. recently re-
turned from a. journey through Rus
sia and other parts of Europe, and is
well acquainted with the trade con-
/ ditions as they exist there.
He stated that Russia annually i'm
Z ports $3.50, 900, 900 worth of foreign-t
made goods, of which more than
S322,O0O,000 worth is received from
Germany. This part has now been
I entirely cut off by the European war
| and is now open to the competition
OF American manufacturers, the
speaker pointed out.
Here Is a country wanting to pur-
chase 1926, 100000 worth of goods
which you manufacturers make" he
said. Now, what are you going to
do about It? You say the war has
affected your business, that times
are dull; money is tight Here Is the
opportunity for you to change all
these conditions. Think OF it, a mar
ket with an annual consumption of
1922, ,000,0 900 lying idle and the Ameri-
can manufacturers not taking any
systematic steps to get control of it."
Not Likely to Resume Trade.
Mr. Sherril. pointed out that there
never will be a resumption on such
a large scale of the former relations
between Russia and Germany, no
matter what the outcome of the pres
ent war is. He said that American
and other foreign manufacturers, for
years to come, will always be given
| a n fiffrao q in
over the products of German manu-
/ facture
He pointed out these facts, he said,
| because American manufacturers
hesitated to send their exports to
Russia fearing the market would be
| lost to them as soon as the war was
, ended, and the German competition
started again. Then he went again
| into the details of proving the fall
acy of this impression.
He called attention to the fact that
, Russia requires every manner of
product that is manufactured. He
pointed out the country's lack of in
| ternal development, it's poor public
utilities and its lack of suitable rail-
reads. He said the country needed to
be modernized, and declared that
every variety of manufacturers could
find ready market in Russia, in one
part of 1t or another.
He then went on to tell of the I'M
proved conditions under which the
Jews in Russia are living. He said
these will be still better after the
war, and urged the United States to
commend the present Russian policy
towards the Jews, in the hope that 1t
will make 1t harder for Russia to
backslide In its treatment of that
race.
In course of his remarks Mr. Sher-
rill told many interesting narratives
of his experiences in the warswept
countries. He ended his discourse
by urging the members of the Trade
| Board and the manufacturers of New
| ark to open their eyes to the oppor-
tunity that is afforded them of reach
! ing the Russian markets.
Chief statisticians Plea.
W. NJ. Steuart, chief statisticiah for
manufactures of the department of
commerce at Washington, made
plea to the members of the Trade
Board for their co-opera tion in assist
| ing the government to compile neces-
sary statistics. He pointed out the
obstacles and difficulties the agents
of his departments encountered In the
course of their duties.
He stated that the States should
accept the federal census where pos
sIble, and not go to the expense of
making a census of their own. He
stated that the census should be re-
duced and the statistics lessened, but
said 1t was a hard matter to accom-
plish. He then went into the details
of the system of maintaining and
| tabulating the statistics and census
| reports.
| Secretary James NJ Reilly an
| nounced the following committee on
nominations for the annual election
of officers: George f. Reeve, chair
man; Lathrop Anderson. Charles p.
| Gi.len, Robertson S. Ward, Charles
Bradley, r. c. Jenkinson.
Other committees were named as
follows: Committee on arrangements
| for the annual banquet Richard G.
Jenkinson (chairman), William r.
Hoffman. r. Wayne Parker, George
Fl. Denny, William S. Roe, Peter
Campbell John G. Eisele, George
Paddock. Abram Rothschild, Denis
F. OBrien; delegates to the annual
convention of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States. Franklin
Conklin Forrest F. Dryden, J. III.
Bachelor. Herbert p. Gleason.
Charles Bradley, Christian w Feig-
enspan, George F. Morrison; dele
gates to the annual convention OF
| the rivers and farbors convent on,
John H. Eastwood. James s Higbie,
John f. Kehoe, Edward Randolph,
Joseph H. Wood S. Fred Bailey CAL
vim Tomkins, John L. O'Toole, Morris
r. Sherrerd