New Britain herald., 1915-01-21
what neutral goods shall be cxclud
Rights Not Infringed.

Rights Not Infringed.
 Tn whatever indirect damage our people may suffer by reason of pro- hibitiOns against trading with the enemy there is no infringement of our legal rights.
 The particular interests of the United States are quite sufficient to warrant strong but temperate de- mand for a proper respect for neutral | commerce, and the United States will, in maintaining it's trade at $ high a level as just regard for belligcrent interests permit serve the large and permanent interest of the world.
 The United States may be trusted to vndiCate it's commercial rights and embrace it's commercial oppor- ! tunities during the war. In so doins it will tend to advance it's financial strength to q point where it may serve the world.
 Back Governments Effort.
 The duty of the moment is to back the governments effort to lessen the war hazards of foreign trade. ''If the British government is to make up the list of contra band in disregard of just neutral rights and protests. we may expect its progress sive extension"
 The problems of the exporter of cotton and the cotton grower were ascribed to scarcity of shipping and to enormous increase in trans-Oceanic freight rates due to the war, in the address of D. w. Kempner of the Galveston cotton exchange.
 RcdficId Reviews Work.
 Secretary of Commerce Redfeld in his address reviewed the work of the department of commerce in promoting foreign trade. He said that since May 1914. the department had stationed eight commercial attaches abroad and that one was about to go to Petro- grad and another to Melbourne
 The departm he continued, now has in mind the developme ent of cooperating branches of the bur eau of foreign and domestic com merce all over the country in the thought that in time every chamber of commerce may become affiliated with the bureau and keep in constant touch with it.
 Material Inaccuracies Exist.
 An important phase of the work of this bureau is that in connection with the revision of export and i2ll- port statistics at the New York GUS tom house. Material inaccuracies exist in both classes of statistics On the export side there are large dis crepancies between the publish ed statistics and the actual facts. Our exports are llnderstated. This under statement may amount to ten per cent. error sufficient to throw our balance at times from the ia vorable to the unfavorable side
 "A considerable part of the error arises from tbe failure of shippers to do their part in preparing accurate and complete manifests"
 Depends Upon Manufacturers
 The future welfare of American foreign trade largely depends upon the participation in it of an increas- ing numbe of smaller manufacturers and merchants, according to w. c. Downs.
 Mr. Downs, who was formerly an exporter and importer of many years residence in South America, declared that with all of the facilities now offered by the government, the rail- roads, the banks and various foreign trade organizations, there was no cx- Cuse for an American manufactures not being able to ascertain whether his goods were suitable for any par ticular foreign market. The problem of getting the goods into that market could be solved largely by co-opera- tive foreign selling organizations and export commission houses