The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-17
COMMERCIAL BOYCOTT.

As everyone knows, in the per. fervid enthusiasm of a beautiful Al liance, the Entente nations have de termined to commercially boycott Germany and her allies after the war. Neither Russia nor France, nor Italy, nor Russia, nor any of them will have anything to do with Made in Germany.
 That's the plan of it. It sounds we'll enough during these strenuous times of war and everyone is straf- ing everyone else. During this pc riod of abnormal mentality among the nations anything and everything seems good enough to be endorsed.
 But they are reckoning without without their host. If British, French, Russian, Italian or any other businessman can make com fortable profits trading with the hated German, we can be quite cer- IdlU that lIG " Ill oC tAp
 Anyone who imagincs that there is anything patriotic or sentimental about business has another guess coming. Often indeed patriotism and sentimentality are highly com mercialiZed and the intuition maker of one country may well be the Stockholder in the intuition factory of another. yet in his own the very loudest in proclaiming the interest ing doctrine of his own nations SUI premacy. American manufacturers, patriotic men all Of them, with theil sons on the militia of the colleges of the land, cheerfully sold muni- tions to Huerta that it was even the would be used in destroying the sol 1 diers of America.
 The purpose of commerce is pro- i fits. It is wholly immaterial wheth- CT those profits come from Brit l isher, a German or Hottentot The exchange of wares transmutes every thing into the gold of profit, and that does not smell. It has no taln' It is immaculate.
 If the London shopkeeper car handle German goods at fifty pei cent profit and the same grade ol British and French and Russian wares at but ten or fifteen, we car be quite certain the stuff he will sell will be made in Germany. The only possibility for a boycott of Ger many would be for the Entente ma nufacturer to dump at cheaper prl' ces better goods than the Germans produce, If they can do that they will make good, if not, they migh' as well forget about it. Of course it is all very well to make a little splurge just now as to what is tC be done after the war. That's pa triotic and will have an effect upor the hoi polloi. Just as when the Pacific Mail Go. to pronounce 1t: own funeral service and to enjoy 1ts own obsequies, killed by the sea mans law, decorated its morebune offices with American flags; dying al it were in splurge or surfeited loyal ty to country and to afig. But th' bunting and the flags were made II Japan, and they even kicked abou the duty charged upon the imported article. There are a good man! people in a good many nations whose patriotism is quite ostenta tious and whose respect for the 1as is so keen that they even import thu flags from foreign nations, that, be ing. cheap, they can have enough o them
 Business is business. After tn
 war it will still be business, and pro
 fits made in Germany or by Ger
 many made goods will be just a sweet and just as clean to thos
 loyalists as any they could otherwls
 enjoy. Capital has no country.
 is at mighty strong effort to max
 the masses think it has. It is goo' stuff and aids commerce.