Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-17
World of Trade
 After the War
PICTURED TO SOUTHERN CON-
 MERcIAL CONGRESS
BY SECRETARY REDFIELD
Says Germany is No Longer the
 Optical Glass or Chemical Porcelain.

New York, Oct 16-what a differ ent world of trade this will be after the war was pictured to the Southern Commercial Congress here tonight by Secretary Reddeld, in an address tell ing of the cutting of the threads of Germany's foreign commerce by her
 own act. and of the awakening of America and her allies to the danger of having their industries dependent upon foreign and possibly upon un- friendly sources of supply. Will be Stran~e World.
 When peace shall come and her merchants take up the task of restor- will find that 1t is a strange world
 which they seek to re-enter," said the secretary. There will be difficulties In the path of future peaceful pene- tration of which they seem not to dream. Commercial frightfulness, like it's military namesake, will have pass ed away.
 'It will hardly be said again to any secretary of commerce of the United States that the German \dyestuff verein will not permit the establishment of an American dyestuf industry. The mOnopolieS on which German foreign commerce in large part seemed to rest secure have passed away. Our friends beyond the sea and we ourselves have learned the danger of having our in dustries wholly dependent on foreign sources of supply which may become unfriendly.
 A German DeIusion.
 Tt is pitiful to read extracts from the German press which seem to show that they expect to take up the task of building their commerce from where they laid it down. They reckon the worlds demand for potash as 1t is so no longer. They were the worlds source for dyestuffs. That op- portunity has gone. It was they to whom the world looked for optical They were the source of supply of chemical porcelain. We make it to- day as well as they.
 T need not tell you of the commer- ctal value of what we call good will -pointzstO. the advantage of doing business as a going concern The great markets of the world have been and are to be found among the nations who have parted company with Ger many in the present struggle Her past markets have been found among them. The peoples of those lands are not likely by one common impulse to turn quickly to Germany for a re- newa1 Of the commercial intercourse which was broken by her act.
 Will See Things Differently.
 Tt must be renewed under circum- stances of peculiar hardship. As it the German merchant will look out when war will close. so let me add it will be in large measure a strange world upon which the American mer- chant will look out at the same time. When embargoes are over and trading with the enemy acts shall have ceased to troubles we also shall see things The novelty on our part reverse. We have gained and are gaining a better understanding of the world we live in. Scales of provin- cialism have fallen from our eyes.
 Things Cannot Be as They Were.
 "When our sons have fought and died together with those of Great Britain. France, Italy, Russia and our other honored friends, things cannot Dc. as they were beTare that happened Each knows the ether better than he Gid Old lines of separation have gone. Our vision is enlarged. Applied to commerce. this means that we un- derstand other peoples and their needs do to supply them. Our men with vision are' reaching out into all the lands. We are in the family whether we will or no. and in my earnest be- lief, we shall draw richly from the family Intercourse.
 "If we were those who look upon the peaceful contests of corInierce as war, we should hardly feel we could speak With freedom m thlS presence of the coming days when normal commercial intercourse the world shall replace present restricted conditions. for we recognize as matter of course as an opportunity and a duty they are not slow to see and upon which they rightly act, that the nations associated with us in this war are preparing for their proper share of the worlds bus ness when the war shall close.
 Relieving as We do, however, that commerce is not war but mutual in tercourse to mutual gain. we look fear and with strong approval upon every effort of cur friends to renew commercial and industrial ac- .ivities in the happier days that are coming" PARLIAMENTARY