The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07
APRIL I WILL MARK END
OF BUSINESS DEPRESSION
Big Merchants Are Laying Plans to Meet the Expected
Bettement in Conditions-Y. M. c. A. Unable to
Supply Increased Demand for Office Help.

! tries ordering them and unable, he
cause of European conditions caused
by the war to care for Themselves
within their own borders.
Probably the most significant of all
indications that the United States is
to have a speedy resumption OF aC-
/ tivity in trade manufacture and com
merce can be found in a recent step
| taken by England. France and Russia.
W. st. John Russell of the Daily Post
| and Mercury Of Liverpool has been
sent here to invite the merchants and
manufacturers Of America to adver-
tise In those three countries wares
which were formerly purchased from
Germany.
The three governments" said Mr..
Russell at the KnickerboCker Nester-
day. believe that so far as its effect
upon industrial condition. is con-
| cerned the war will be over by the
middle Of summer. To prepare for
the resumption Of business and trade
| conditions. they agreed that the mer-
chants and manufacturers of the
United States should place their wares
before the people not later than the
LIST of April
sentiment in the United States would
be- concerning this but | find II
am to Judge 10y the hearty responses
to my invitation. that your people
evidently agree with us. If they did
not they would not be so willing TO
| spend their money just at this time
Of depression to advertise among peo-
| pies who are really and actually at
war. But the biggest and the best
! of them are signifyiuE their desire to
cooperate. and | consider tina. a
healthy sign that they believe the end
Of the war is at hand.
when we fix upon the middle OF
| the summer for the end Of the war
We do not mean that peace will he
| declared before the very warm
weather has passed, although we be-
| lieVe that is not beyond the possible
| But II ! may say so without violating
/ the spirit Of neutrality which your
/ President very properly insists upon
/ We believe that the Russians will he
| in Berlin by that time ana that ne
gotiations for peace will have begun
with the possible exception of Bel
GUM, Germany will be the most az
/ fected industrially by the results Of
1 the war. For her to resume her in
dustrial life in anything ike the meas
ure which ii had before ;he war will
| be impossible for a long time to
come. The goods that we have been
| buying from Germany we will have
10 buy elsewhere. and where except
] in the United States can we look for
such things9
1T is certain that we must have
the goods and that We cannot wait
[ very long for them. This means that
/ your country will have to supply
| them. and supply them very soon and
| In hundreds OF millions Of dollars
worth. ! do not see, therefore. how
any body can doubt iiiat within II few
months from to-day this country will
begin at least to boom industrially.
/ The intention Of the Allies is to
! deprive Germany Of every foot of sea
/ coast and so destroy her merchant
marine. If this is accomplishment
| here again my desire To observe neu-
/ trahty in expression. although ] can
/ not in thought, prevents me from
/ saying anything further on that
/ point-the United States can keep all
/ that trade and make the boom, as you
/ call il here, a permanent condition.
We expect that when hostilities have
ceased there Will he a heavy immigra-
! ton TO America, but by that time
you will have SO captured the mar
/ kets of the world that you can use
every able bodied man and woman
who comes TO your shores"