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

has eaten into our national body IN
such fashion that we cannot cut i!
out without seeming in some cases "a
cut into the healthy flesh"
| The Paris
! Resolutions.
Feeling was almost as bitter in
France. II crystallized in what are
| known as the Paris Resolutions,
adopted at the Economic Conference
Of the Entente Allies in the French
capital last June. The Resolutions
provide:
Thct the Entente Allies shall bind
themselves to each other by economic
ties forever.
That during the period of the war
they shall unite in any economic and
political measures deemed necessary
to bring about the defeat Of the
enemy. Out of this grew the famous
Black List.
That during the period Of transi-
ton from war to state of physical
peace the reconstruction of the Allied
countries shall be expedited by such
means as a boycott Of German goods,
q system of preferential trade among
| themselves, and the grant of state
subsidies TO shipping, railroads and
telegraphs. There is definite agree
ment TO conserve for the Allied coun-
/ tries "above all others" the natural
resources of their combined domains.
That there shall be adopted per
manent measures Of mutual assis-
lance and collaboration" the nature
of which is vaguely indicated.
Since June the Council of the Lon
don Chamber of Commerce has been
celebrating the sense of the Paris
conference into concrete proposals.
Its second report has just appeared,
and its recommendation is that the
rules TO govern The After War shall
provide:
That any measures tChich may
( he considered in connection NTH
! trade during and after the l0ar
( should prouide:
I (a) For preferential reciprocal
trading relations betCeen all
parts Of the British Empire;
(b) For reciprocal trading re-
lations between the British En-
pire md the Allied countries;
(c) For the faDOrable treat
ment Of neutral countries; and,
(d) For regulating, by tariffs
and otherwise, trade relations
Nth all enemy countries, so as
to render impossible a return to
pre-War conditions ard for slim
uIating the Development Of home
manufactures and the cOnse-
quent increased employment Of
home hboI.
That the steps should be taken
10 preUent The dumping (and I'M
derUaluation) of enemy goods
into British markets after the
WGr.
The aim is to boycott competitive
German goods and to penalize more
or less all other competitive goods in
a market to be maintained among the
members Of the Entente Alliance on
basis of exclusive reciprocity. They
will trade with each other by pref
erence, with outsiders when neces-
sary, and with Germany never, if
they can help it.
At the Root
Is Fear.
At the root Of it all is a strange
fear. 1t seems at first absurd
In Anglo-French economic discus
sion the paramount thought is how TO
protect European markets against
the penetration of cheap German
wares. The fear is that Immediately
after the war Germany will dump"
enormous quantities of goods in all
the market places and make them so
cheap that nobody can help buying
them.
But why should the buyers pro-
test? Why beforehand do they de-
mand to be saved from the calamity
OF buying cheaply?
You may think il is purely
thought Of revenge, in the Guise OF
economies, and that the former Gus
toners of Germany, knowing their
own frailty, wish while their hate is
strong TO erect barriers across which
the temptation Of bargains will be
unable TO carry them. But that is
not ii, at least not ali of il, for in a
CalmQr atmoSnhere at the same time