The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-08

BUT GERMANY PROTECTED HER
MANUFACTURERS BY A HIGH
TARIFF WALL
German export corporations were
subsidized by the government so that
they could undersell and drive out
their competitors.
The trust in Germany was not
only legal, but fostered by the gov
eminent to boost German export
trade. The practice of selling prod
ucts abroad at less than cost, and
charging the home consumer prices
high enough to make up the difference
was encouraged by the German gov
eminent and submitted to by the Ger
man people without murmur.
German business men and bankers
were allowed to operate in the United
States on equal terms with Ameri-
cans, BUT IN GERMANY AMERICAN
BUSINESS MEN WHO BOUGHT
POTASH DEPOSITS WE'RE RUTH
LESSLY COMPELLED TO GIVE UP
THEIR HOLDINGS WIT H O U T
PROFIT in order to preserve the Ger
man potash monopoly Germany has
no law making contracts inviolate
such as exists in America.
Since the war Germany has forfeit
ed these advantages and the allies
have held several conferences to map
out plans by which, after the war,
Germany will be deprived Of her spe-
cial privileges and made to do bust
ness throughout the world on equal
terms.
This is what the Germans call the
economic blockade" or the war
after the war" They profess horror
at the thought, and everyone of their
peace feelers on the subject of free
dom of the seas" and economic Ito
erty of all nations" is designed to pre-
vent the carrying out of these plans.
At the same time Germany has said
nothing about revising her own tariff
laws or her atrocious patent laws,
WHICH ROB ALL OTHER NATIONS
and refuse adequate protection to for
eign inventors. Much of German
efficiency" is based on stolen patents
of foreigners.
Germany maintained many CONNER
cial outposts in America before the
war A large and powerful group of
bankers in New York and the German
steamship interests are vitality inter-
ested in the restoration of German
privileges after the war. 1t means
millions to them.
So they are beginning their agita>
ton to separate America from the
allies in the peace conference. This
group has powerful connections in
mnay lines of business through finan-
cial and racial aftinities.
Vi. It possesses. influence with many
newspapers and has friends and re-
tainers in the United States senate.
:, The propaganda now in progress
takes the form of attacks on England.
She is charged with plots against
American trade after the war. She is
charged with keeping millions of men
from the front
The anti-English talk is the hall
mark of pro-Germanism. All these
forces are consciously or unconscious
ly working for the big German finan
cial and steamship interests in the
United States.
Their newspapers, the German So
cialist crowd who dominate the ridi-
culous little socialist political machine
in the United States, the foreign Ian
guage press and the organizations of
pacifists are all doing the work of the
German export "cartels."
President Wilson in his Flag day
speech once and for all committed
the United States against any Ger
man peace fakes.
Those elements which seize every
cue from Berlin to clamor for peace
terms, to ask "what the war is all
about" and to criticize the allies 0:
this country have no longer any ex-
cuse Of ignorance. The president
made the issues plain.
Those who refuse to toe the mark
to the American program are flirting
with treason and the source Of their
inspiration can usually be found in
the German financial interests.
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