New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-08

the world is, nor for what wrong
reasons it is mad, one may argue
still that it cannot cure itself with
the hair Of the animal that hit II
last.
In the midst Of chaos man plans
confusion.
His pressing immediate business Is
Ths Va.
His obsession is--what do you
think? If You had dropped out OF
the sky or had come suddenly awake
YOU could not guess it. His great
obsession is The after War.
No sooner shall the physical con-
test have been decided, or drawn,
shan there shall begin in hate, for re-
vcrge, or for what purpose you will,
an economic war that shall be bitter,
rcmorscloss and unending. This is a
state OF mind which a neutral is
easily persuaded to think archaic or
atavistic. But the neutral is not
himself exempt. Countries that have
not participated in The War are yet
deeply concerned in The After Var,
and are taking steps to participate
therein.
Let MS attend at the beginning.
Splitting of
the Secrets.
When war overturned the arrange
ments Of trade and spilled the secrets
out. some Of the revelations were fan
tastic. An endless variety Of goods
traced back TO a common source.
Germany, it was found, had been
filling the world with cheap mer-
chandise, mostly unawares. The
number of things that had been Ger
man was matter Of the widest Won
DER. People were differently af-
fected, in variable degree, but all of
them everywhere more or less.
Americans were chagrinned to find
that they had been helplessly de-
pendent upon Germany for dye
stuffs. which we had been perfectly
well able to make for ourselves, only
that the Germans had made them
cheaper than we could. and that
when we tried once or twice 70 supply
ourselves they had sold them cheaper
still TO discourage competition.
That was called dumping" 2 hate
full, i'll sounding word. There was
clamor at once for legislation against
its happening again. 1t has been
needed. We have already an anti
dumping" law.
In Europe-that is, in England,
France, Italy and Russia-the ex-
tent TO which people had relied upon
German industry for goods which
they might have produced for them
selves, and the quantity Of them they
had alphabetically consumed, be-
came the cause of much heart burn
ing. German products had pene-
trated everybody's markets. The
English were particularly hurt in
their pride, because for a great many
years English manufactures had
been first in the world, and Germany
was an upstart rival. The truth was
CALLING.
Curicsities
of Hatred.
German goods were Of many kinds.
Some bore the legends Of their origin,
and people might have known before
if they had been only interested
enough TO look or to ask; but a great
many specialized things, sold the
world over as of English make, were
found to have been produced at Of
fenbach or Frankfort, or Leipzig, by
the thousands Of gross, even TO the
British label.
This was very humiliatinC. There
was no fault TO find with the goods.
They had been satisfactory to the
British jobbers who ordered and paid
for them, ard they had not disgraced
the British labels under which they
presented themselves 10 the world.
but they had been German, the prod
uct Of German skill and industry,
whereas they ought 10 have been
English, as they were before it was
cheaper 70 buy goods in Germany
than 10 make them anywhere else.
You could buy anything there. You
had only 70 specify. You could buy
Japanese" goods so cleverly initial
ing the real that only an expert could
tell the difference, and as a jobbe.
you could save money by il.
When the facts began 20 be dis
closed people were angry, and the
more facts they learned the angrier
they were. not at the British jobbers