New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-06-08
u. S. WILL NOT
TIE UP WITH ANY
OTHER NATIONS
GERMANS ARE NOW AFRAID
THAT THIS COUNTRY WILL
GO INTO COMMERCIAL
AGREEMENTS WITH IT'S
ALLIES
pecial to State Record.

Washington, June 6.-The Repub.
lican Publicity Association, today
made the following announcement:
The 'Reinisch Westphae elscje lei
tung, most rabidly anti-American OF
all German papers, is very much
alarmed at the prospect of the Unit
ed States joining with the Allies in
the effort to eliminate Germany as
trade competitor after the war
The Zeitung now sees the possibi-
,lity of Britain establishing an impe-
rial customs union against Germany
whereby uniformly directed eco
nomic hegemony will be created so
great as to draw into its orbit a num-
Der of smaller states where the re-
sources will be used to the common
end, and declares: This will be in
creased thousand-fold if America
throws in her weight, deciding to
join hands with the old country for
defeat OF a common enemy
There is small probability of Amer
ica doing any such thing There is
no alliance so entangling as a COM
mercial alliance, and this country
is opposed to entanglements of any
sort with any foreign country We
did not enter the war against Ger
many for pelf. commercial or terri
torial, although the outcome, now
that we have joined with the Allies
may result in their aggrandizcment,
a fact which Germany had time to
ponder. We are not in this war
primarily for the purpose of putting
an end to European autocracy, de-
spite certain high-flown phrases to
the contrary, although European
democracy may possibly be by
product of the war-mill now that
we are in. We entered this war
because of intolerable aggression
and insult from Germany and be-
cause we dispute her right to boss
the ocean.
When the question has been set
tied by force of arms, and it is going
to be settled in our favor, we will
demand the right to carry on our
commerce as we see fit. taking die
tation from no nation. We are 60
ing to put stop to the German
practice of dumping on our market
for the purpose of breaking down
our domestic trade. We are going
to have q tariff law that will give
goods Made in America first pre-
ference in the American market. We
are going to see that our flag stays
on the ocean by doing what every
other country is doing--subsidizc
our shipping. We are going to see
10 it that large corporations, on
which the administration is now re-
ying to pull it out of the hole, are
regulated and not destroyed. We
ire going to do these things because
before the war is over, this country
will be so sick of Democratic ineffi-
,iency that it will ask the party that
,uilt it up to insure Us stability, and
hat is the Republican party. There
will be no He kept us out of war
ioporific four years from now.
And in doing these things no ma
ion will be singled out against
which to discriminate. Germany
will stand on an equal footing with
he rest of the world in our program
If reconstruction. Nor can Germany
lfford to discriminate against us.
'rior to the war we were importing
100000 worth of her products an
lually, and she was buying $33O,OOO,-
100 worth of our commodities, of !
which raw materials formed large
'art. She will be in sore need of !
hcse materials when the war is
'ver, but if she wishes to make up
hese raw materials and sell them
Jack to us she will have to meet
'ur protective tariff. The 'Zeitung
iced not be alarmed. The United
'tates will act independently of Eu-
ope so far as commercial policy is