The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
four DIVISIONS
OF The WORLD
IN TRADE WAR
After Physical, Commercial
Conquest Will Ensue.
Germany Now Preparing to
Control Central Powers.
u. s. MUST Be PEACEMAKER
Dealing With All Alike May
Pacify Nations.
) England Plans Tariff Wall
Around Her Enemy.
Germany Now Preparing to
Control Central Powers.
U. S. MUST Be PEACEMAKER
Dealing With All Alike May
Pacify Nations.
BY b. c. FORBES.

New York. Feb. 1S.-The world is in
process of being divided into four
great divisions for commercial and po-
lltical purposes after the war
These divisions are:
Pan-America. with the United
states the most powerful factor.
The Teutonic nations, Bulgaria
and Turkey. with Germany the
predominant power.
The orient. with Japan holding
sway over China.
The allied countries.
When swords are sheathed, the bat
tie of commerce VIII begin. Already
+ Germany is arranging to eliminate all
tariff and other barriers between her
and Austria Hungary. Austrians sus-
pect and complain that this will be
first and vital step toward complete
domination by the kaiser. but the
movement is being vigorously prose-
'cuted.
Use Turkey Raw Material.
Says Duke Ernest Gunther, of
Schleswig- Holstein, brother of the
German empress:
The opponents of closer union take
tine view that any loosening of the GUS
toms line would make the dual mon
archy economically dependent upon
Germany and that Germany wants to
make up for the markets she has lost
lin the war by flooding the dual mon
archy with goods.
Germany never had any such in
tention We must also think
of Bulgaria and Turkey. Both these
countries have much raw material that
is useful to us. We must
I learn from the war that we have got
to subordinate the question of nation
alities to political necessities
Germany wants to be ready to fight
the rest of the world commercially.
She sees herself shutout from most of
the worlds markets by high tariff
walls.
Japan is cleverly maneuvering to
gain the whip hand IN China and thus
be able to exploit that great market
for her own advantage and to the dis
advantage of other nations.
Allies to Spurn Enemy.
To Judge from discussions INDUCED
p in by the allied nations they are new
err. never going to have anything to do
with Germany or Austria after the war
ends The allies are to work in COM
mercial accord Just as they have work
ED together on the battlefield.
Also the British empire is to be
more closely united than ever before.
Free trade policies and principles, We
are told, are to be discarded through
out the empire and tariff walls are to
be built to keep out every ounce of
German and Austrian products.
Instead of fighting, as now. behind
trenches, merciless commercial war
is to be fought from behind tariff
barriers.
lovely prospect. Every great
group of nations is to fight the 9TH
ers' Hate is to reign, as now! 1 don't
believe it,
believe that before arms are laid
down suffering will have softeued
rather than hardened the hearts OF
the warning nations.
Rulers may be OverthrOwn and new
forms of government set up Autoc-
racy of every kind and in every land
may he swept away. But common
sense will, I believe, prevail in read
Justing the worlds trade relations.
When Sober Senses Return.
Tho dividing of the world into a few
great trade compartments. now seen
rs desirable. viii come to he seen as
p ludicrous.
The United States may well lead
the way toward that sensible action.
This richly endowed nation. capable
Of selling to the world and buying
from the world more than any other
country on earth. will stand ready and
willing to enter into friendly, recipro-
cal trade relations with any ana every
other land.
b. No Chinese wall will be built
around our shores. European coun-
tries, when their sober senses return
will find that efforts to shutout trade
with other great groups of people are
hurtful rather than helpful.
Commerce consists of buying as
we'll selling The nation that buys
least is apt to sell least
There are goods which Britain car
buy most profita bly, from Germany
and goods which Germany needs from
the British empire.
For Tariff Commission.
Prudence. OF course. demands tina
the United States be prepared to dea
with any situation which may arise
Let us have a tariff commission by al
means.
But let our influence be exercised
= toward uniting nations, not keeping
them apart from US or from one an
other