The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-29
ABSURD ID TALKOF | GERMAN BOYCOTT WHEN WAR IS OVER United States Would Never
 Be a Party to Such Plan
 of the Allies FAIR IN WAR BUT
 NOT IN PEACE TIMES Reports Come of Movement in Lower California to Declare Its Independence of 1 Mexico
Ky HOLLAND

| New York, June 2s-(Specal. )-There continues to be some apprehension about the meaning which lies behind the reso- of the economic conference between lead CTS of the allies which was held few days ago at Paris. But no apprehension prevails among the leaders in the finan- cial district, at least among those who had some part in international financing. The idea seems to prevail that those who took part in the conference decided to recommend to their governments that an absolute boycott be established with intent to crush Germany and Austria in- dustrially after the war is ended Of course, a boycott of that kind is by means of England's blockade partially established now, and that is justified by all the rules of war. It is recalled that the United States put an embargo upon trade with the states of the Confederate government at the time of the civil war, and undoubtedly should there be war with Mexico an embargo which would be in form boycott would be made as effec- tive possible by the United States against Mexico.
 But to presume that the allied nations
 
 embargo which would strangle German and Austrian industries after the war is regarded by financial leaders as both from the point of view of political expediency and from that of trade simply absurd. What should be done is to encourage as far as possible the industries of Germany and Austria and the re-establishment of trade with those nations. The United States would never be a party to any ar ,oy,f ,iob industries of Germany and Austria
 As our international financiers under stand it, all that the members of this conference had in view was the per. fecting of measures which would make it impossible for any nation-Germany or any other-to undertake such commer- cial restrictions or discriminations as pre- vailed before the war broke out, but, on the other hand, so to act as to make it certain that very nation big or little, should have equal and fair opportunity for honorable trade competition with other nations What the suppression of German and Austrian industries after the war would mean for other nations had been demonstrated by the inability of the United States and other nations to secure commodities for the purchase of which Germany offered the best market. Of course if the United States by reason lof present-day embarrassments develops successfully the dyeing industry, or if the men of science here should show how we can obtain adequate supplies of pot ash from our natural, but hitherto un- worked resources, then we might be inde- pendent of the German markets for these commodities. But that would be fair. Furthermore, 1t may be necessary for the United States in order to prevent so- called dumping in the United States of foreign made commodities to establish an embargo in the form of protective tariff rates. That, however, would be fair.
 Coincidentally in point of time with the outbreak of dangerous relation be-