New Britain herald., 1916-10-27
DUMPING MENACE
 PROVED A MYTH
President Talks on Imports from
 Europe at Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 27.-Presi- dent Wilson told a thousand guests at a luncheon at the Women's City club yesterday that the present war in Europe was "the last war of the kind, or of any kind that involves the world, that the United States can keep out off,
 "The business of neutrality he continued, lis over, not because I want it to be over, but I mean this, that war now. has such scale that the position of neutrals sooner or later becomes intolerable.''
 Although the president has ex- pressed before his belief that position of neutrality would prove un- tenable by any nation in the world which is to emerge after the war, he has never before said in such unmis- takable terms that another big con- f1ict would make Americas participa- tion inevitable.
 Tn his speech, which dealt alm ost exclusively with the relation of America to the world after the war, the president further told his audience that fear of wholesale dumping of foreign goods on the United States was based on profound ignorance and that even should it occur the nation was now fully prepared to meet it.
 The speech was one of four which the president delivered to enthusiastic audiences during the day. The city received him with open arms, and his stay here was marked by a series of specta cular ovations.
 Have you ever heard what started the present war;" the president asked in leading up to his declaration about Americas participation in the next war. If you have, wish you would publish it, because nobody else has. Sc far as I can gather nothing in par ticular started it, but everything in general. There had been growing up in Europe a mutual suspicion, an in terchange of conjectures about what this government and that government was going to do, an interlacing of alliances and understandings, a com p1ey web of intrigue and spying that presently was sure to entangle the whole of the family of mankind on that side of the water in its mesEes.' '
 Neutrality Thing Of Past.
 Asserting that revival of these
  war inevitable in which the United States must join. the president said that the nations of the world must get together and say nobody can hereafter. be neutral as respects the disturbances of the worlds peace for an object which the worlds opinion cannot sanction" 4
 America must hereafter be ready as a member of the family of na- tions," he continued, ito exert her whole force, moral and physical, to the assertion of the fundamental rights of mankind throughout the round globe"
 The president said that he "won- dered that any thinking man could entertain an opinion that Europe could overwhelm America by her economic power when the war is over," Does war increase the eco- homie efficiency of a nation?' he asked. and he asserted that with all her energies devoted to the prosecu- ton of her work on the battlefield it was ridiculous to suppose that any European nation could have given at- tention to manufacturing goods to compete with American goods in their own market.
 He pointed out that Americas for eign commerce did not equal 4 per cent. of her whole commerce and said that the present prosperity was there fore not dependent on the war. He referred to the value of the Federal Reserve system in obtaining for American bankers the necessary agencies for handling the worlds banking. Perhaps the part of the speech that brought the greatest a D. plause was his plea that America should regard her opportunity after the war as one not for exploitation of the ar-stricken nations of Europe but for sympathetic aid in solving | their problems.