The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
Begin to Realize Big World
Trade Has Van
ished
WERE DECEIVED BY
THE WAR LORDS
Business Men Had Expected
to Profit by Speedy
Conquest

Washington, D. c., July 2s.--Growing
realization of the tremendous and in
many respects permanent trade losses
that have been incurred by Germany as
result of the war is beginning TO shake
the confidence of the Junkers, according
to information reaching the American
government through indirect channels.
Though the German government, these
advises state, is doing its utmost TO keep
the figures from the general public, yet
enough has leaked out to the people
through recent debates in the Rechstag
to create a demand for the facts.
In supporting the militarists in their
gigantic preparations for der Tag the
Junkers and the business and CONNER
cial interests of Germany generally had
been led to believe that the power of
the Prussian war machine was so irwin
chile as to completely overcome all OBJ
staeles and quickly bring to successful
conclusion Germany's purpose to control
the markets of the world.
This was the coveted place in the
SUM-" as the commercial magnates of
Germany saw it, and il was to gain this
place that they supported the militarists
generously in money and in influence
In place of what the Prussian war
lords had promised them would be theirs
in record time these men of business in
Germany, who for long years previously |
had successfully, though slowly, built up
German markets in all parts Of the globe
are now beginning TO foresee the day
when the war will end with German ac
counts completely wiped of the worlds
trade ledgers.
1t is not so much the trade war after
the war" SO recklessly promised by the
allies, that is occupying the immediate
attention of the burghers OF Berlin, &C
cording to the advices received, as the
sickening realization that German trade
has already been wiped out in three
fourths of the world and that the elab
crate and scientific machinery of COM
merce they had built up has been oblit
Grated.
The reports that have been received
Indicate that when once the full signlti-
canoe of what has occurred is borne home
10 the German people they will appreci-
lte as never before the falseness Of the
gods they have been following.
Before the European war started the
foreign trade Of Germany amounted to
more than s4,000,000O00 a year. Her {
exports were second only to those of (
Great Britain and were on a par with I
hose of the United States. u
Her merchant marine was outrivaled ]
,nly by that Of Great Britain, and her
hips piled the seven seas and traded at
very civilized port. German CONNER :
ial efficiency had proved more than a
match for British salesmsnship and had
other competitors. German
gencies and German banks were located :
n every country where it was possible
or such instruments to build up trade,
All this has been wiped out by the
var. Many of the finest ships in the =
herman merchant marine are now in the
ands of her foes and flying the flags Of
nemy nationalities
With each new enemy acquired, trade
les laboriously woven have been sum
lerity to faunt in many corners of the
he past have become bitter foes, and
iuch of the bitterness will remain for a
eneration at least to thwart the efforts
f Germany later TO repair what she has
,st
Ii win be decades at least, many Ger
lans themselves are beginning to realize,
eforc German traders will have the to-
lrity to faunt in many corners of the
orld the slogan Made in Germany"
a a single instance that of the United
tates, Germany uprooted trade that
afore the war was worth TO her mer-
rants approximately S200,o0o,0oO
ear in sales.
Officials who have compared these con.
Dental advices with recent develop
ents in Germany are able to trace
between what is declared to
: this growing appreciation of Ger
any's enormous trade losses and the
Election of parties in the Reichstag,
Ich as the conservative Center party,
ON the government.
While for the time being officials here
cognize that the militarists are in the
ddle in Berlin, they are beginning to
onder how long they could survive
,pular understanding Of the terrible
ice that Germany has paid.