The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-11-11
HAS HUGE
ORDERS FOR j. 5
$500, ooo, 900 TO BE SPENT IN
THIS COUNTRY.
MUCH NEW MACHINERY WANTED
Commercial Body Arrives in New
York and Plans to Purchase Equip
ment for Factories Destroyed
During the War.

New York, Nov. 10.-Billions OF dol.
lars will be spent in this country on
industrial, commercial and agricul-
tural materials If the plans OF the
French commercial commission,
which arrived on the liner Lafayette.
are successful
All the money France has spent in
the past in Germany for machinery
and equipment will be spent here, the
commissioners said, and as a guaran-
tee of the worth of their prediction
something like $50O,0OO,O0O in orders
will be given to American manufac-
turers within the next few months.
Maurice Damour, secretary of the
committee of appropriations Of the
French chamber of deputies. is chair.
man of the French commercial and in.
dustrial commission.
Factories Destroyed by War.
Our object is to re-equip and mod
erniZe the French industrial factories
and shops destroyed by the war" Mr.
Damour said. Besides this we wish
to effect a general modernization of all
French commercial, industrial and
agricultural lines. The industrial era
OF the United States in France is at
hand The United States must fur
nish the material for the rebuilding
of Frances industries.
With our population reduced by
the war, we will be compelled to equip
our factories with modern machinery
that will take the place of hand labor.
We expect to buy such machinery in
the United States.
Germany Loses Huge Orders.
Heretofore we have spent $l60,000.-
900 in Germany each year for ma
chinery alone. That money will now
come to the United States. These fig
ures are very small in comparison with
what will be spent In the future owing
to the fact that practically all the
machinery in northern France has
been destroyed. Our orders will cover
every kind of machinery made, inClud-
ing agricultural implements, tools,
hardware and spinning machinery.
Every industry in France needs new
machinery and the most modern OBJ
tainabIe.
Orders to Total Billions.
French and American bankers will
cooperate in this gigantic undertaking
the remodeling of nation. We need
the cooperation of the financial and
industrial representatives of America
to further the industrial future of
France.
Our orders will run up into billions
of dollars, for we must not only re-
place the destroyed workshops OF
France, but reconstruct the shops of
the rest of the republic as we'll. But
in turn we want the United States to
buy the manufactured output that the
United States formerly purchased
from Germany. We will not go into
competition with your factories and
shops, but ask you to purchase the
goods you have not extensively manu-.
featured in tile past, but got from
Germany.
Germany Faces Commercial War.
The French people have ever been
a thrifty race. From the most lowly
OF workmen to the greatest bankers
the French have ever had money to in
vest. In the past this money has been
invested in Russia, Italy and other ma.
tions. Now instead Of investing abroad
the French people will buy machinery
from the United States and in turn
expect the United States to purchase
the goods they formerly purchased in
Germany. Our war on Germany will
not end with the cessation Of hostili.
ties for we are going to wage ter
rife commercial war against our
enemy"