The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-14
American Trade
Opportunities
In Europe
(By Associated Press.)

Copenhagen. May American
trade opportunities in Europe were
pictured in a promising light by Dr,
Maurice F. Egan, the United States
Minister to Denmark, in speaking
recently to number of business
men who have of late been IN CLOSE
relation with the United states le
CATION and acknowledgements mere
If the American would divest
himself of some preconceived IDEAS
and carefully study actual cohui-
lions in foreign countries, ne neeu
neither fear financial panics nor the
results of over-production in his own /
country, DR.. Egan believed.
He said while he could sympath-
! ize with the position in which many
American business men had Deeh
placed by the conditions on the hish
seas resulting from the war, ne leit
that these very interests now 50
much impaired-would profit IN the
end. He had many times deplored
the provincial point of view OF
many Americans in business as TO
foreign conditions. It had been most
| difficult to induce them to study
Europe except as mere pleasure
, ground or as place which might De
utilized for increase of their ousl
, ness without any previous scientific
study. At present there many busl-
ness men in the United States VINO
, were terribly shocked to discover
that the security of business mad
;. been shaken by the war. Inelr
. period of tranquility had been so
: long that the chance of any interest
y outside of United States affecting
9 them seemed so impossible tha'
- many of them were amazed, angry
and helpless in, the presence OF such
q unexpected disasters
a However strange it might seem
! the present unhappy conditions
% had opend the eyes of American
,s business men and the citizens OF TN
r neutral countries to the necesslt!
"A of scientifically Strengthening III
~ commercial relations between tn
United States and foreign countries
If The neutral countries had begun U
H. look to the United States from neN
he and practical point of view. The
os had begun to understand that Their
ia were certain products which coul
N be better obtained from the Unite
~ States than in any other. AT pre-
az sent the abnormal rate of freigf
on stood in the way and to be consider
|. ed. The risk otherwise too, wei
-, enormous. California fruits for il
70 stance and Oregon apples sell at
,re premium and disappear from II
CT market in the shortest time. ca
m Fashionable in Denmark by the Kir
are readily sold and more anu
or ing conditions is that Denmark
Of at present obliged to gets is sp
nv ghetti in New York.
tbe The speriority of certain Amel
of can canned goods, as for instan
la asparagus and tomatoes, is ackno
lodged that there is even a DENIAL
cod for American candles since the pri
vho of candles of candles in Germa
for has risen. A great opportunity tt
ms exists for American plumbing app
ate ances, he said, but firms handll
lila these things in the United Sta'
90 must send competent man, spea
NV ing the language and understand
,so all the niceities of American plum
his ing as applied to foreign buildin
re "Our Consular reports, in viii
to there appear many communicate
ont from Consul General Winslow, sh
tho many other needs. Curious
his enough, the interest in Americ
led products, the interest which see
tho ito have hitherto been unsuspes
the in Europe. is growing and will C
en- tinue to grow if properly nursed
,unt our business men after the war