Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

vary within certain limits by varying i the temperature of distillation.
 Paid 28 Per Gent. Dividends.
 1 In 1913, the last normal year be- | GOO tons of dyes and 22.000 tons of in- l termediates of a combined declared export value of about s56,000, 900. This | means an average of slightly less than l entire world outside of Germany, for | the 1,200 odd things that have to be 1 made. And in this same year there were, apart from the distilling of coal tar, probably not over 10000 people all
 told engaged in the whole world in the manufacture of coal-tar dyes and the chemicals needed therefor. h
 Germany the larger portion of the l companies, having a combined capi-
 talization of about $6O, 1000, 900. The
 profits of the largest of these com
 panies. the Badische Co.,, were in 1913
 2S per cent. were paid.
 Before the war this country used
 dyes to the value of about $15, 900, 900
 annually, so you see that if we made
 strikingly a1luring one, particularly
 when you consider the complexity of
 manufacture and high degree of sci
 entific technique required, together
 with the great outlay of capital, and
 comparatively slight return. as sue
 ceSsful enterprises are judged in this
 country. Germany made hers proffta
 ble by selling it's products to 33 coulf-
 tries outside of her own boundaries.
 In reality and in total mercantile eff
 feet the industry is just about one nation business, which will supply the needs of the world. It was therefore,
 not at all surprising that capital should not be over enthusiastic on
 embarking on such an enterprise
 when the dye famine caused by the stoppage of imports owing to the war, fn III is r. ural for capital to hesitate when there is a strong probability that upon re- turn of normal conditions an incipient half developed American industry will be exposed to prolonged and relentless underselling by foreign competitors possessing almost boundless resources financial and technical.
 Tariff to Protect Dye Industry.
 If an industry in this country is doomed to the most relentless compe- why should the effort be made to es- tablish it? Aside from the desirabil- ity of being as a nation induStrially independent, there is another consid- question of having at all times equip ment in this country and men capable to operate it to produce the means of defence, l. e.. high explosives, is one which promises to affect all of us. A complete domestic dye indus try making our total requirements of colors could, in case of necessity, in months time produce d maximum quantity of explosives. which other wise it would require a year to attain. This is an element of efficient propar edness worth considering. On this ground a tariff sufficiently high to af- ford the protection required for the establishment of this industry in our becomes a national necessity.
 Looking towards the future, there is no reasonable question as to the won derful expansion of coal-tar and al lied chemistry in the days to come. Within fifty years has developed an industry that underlies so much 0f our textile, leather. printing, decora- tive, and other industries; that is such a fundamental part of the great pho tographic industry: that provides remedies and medicines that reach to every hospital and almost every sick bed in the civilized world and adds to our comfort and well being in such 8 multitude of directions as this in dustry does, and which also supplies | so much and so many things to na tional defence. Probably the best of | these have not been discovered. Even | in twenty years this combined indus l try may have grown so that it's pTei- | =nt permeation of the industrial life |