The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-17
GERMANY WILL FIND
 DIFFICULTY IN HER AT FTERWAR TRADE
Secretary Redfield Tells How America Has Grown Independent in Many
 Lines of Industry

-NCW Olh. OCUODtI Io. What a different world of 1 trade this will be after the war
 was pictured to the Southern Commercial Congress here to-
 night by Secretary Redfield in
 an address telling of the cut ting of the threads of Ger many's foreign commerce by
 her own act, and of the awak- enlng of America and her allies to the danger of having
 their industries dependent up-
 or foreign and possibly un- friendly sources of supply.
 When peace shall come and her 1 merchants take up the task of re- storing Germanys ruined commerce they will find that it is strange world which they seek to reenter," said the secretary. There will be diff faculties in the path of the future
 peaceful penetration of world markets of which they seem not to dream. Commercial frightfulness, like it's mil itary namesake, will have passed away.
 Tt will hardly be said again to any | Gac of af ha I mi fnd States that the German dyestuff verein will not permit the establishment of an American dyestuff industry. The mo- nopolies on which German foreign con- merce in large part seemed to rest se-
 cure have passed away,
 ] Tt Is pitiful to read extracts from the German press which seem to show that they expect to take up the task of le- l building tlefs. commerce where they luiG lit down. They reckon ;lfe worin'S de-
 mand for potash was a purely German asset. It was so but it is no longer They have now no worlds monopoly of dyestuffs That opportunity has gone, | It was they to whom the world looked l for optical glass. We do not look there now They were the source of supply of i chemical porcelain. We make it today as well as they.
 l VALUE OF GOOD WILL" 1T need not tell you of the commercial i value of what we call good will or point 1 the advantages of doing business as ] "a going concern The great markets I of the world have been and are to be
 found among the nations who have part l ed company with Germany in the present 1 struggle Her past markets have been found among them. The peoples of these lands are not likely by one common inn l renewal of the commercial intercour SC which was broken by her act. It must be renewed under circumstances of pe culiar hardship.
 l "As 1t will be a strange world upon which the German merchant will look I out when war shall close, so let me add 1t will be in a large measure strange world upon which the American merchant will look out upon at the same time When enbargoes are over l and trading with the enemy acts shall l have ceased to trouble. we also shall see things differently. The novelty will not 1 on our part arise from separation but
 
 gaining better understanding of the world we live in. Scales of provisional 1 ism have fallen from our eyes.
 THINGS ARE CHANGED
 l "When our sons have fought and died. 1 togenher with those of Great Britain, France Italy, Russia and our other hon. ored friends, things cannot be as they were before that time. Each knows the other better than he did Old lines Of separation have gone. Our vision IS cn- \ larged. Applied to commerce this means l that we understand other peoples and | their needs better and know better what I we may do to supply them. Our men l with vision are reaching out into all the lands. We are in the family whether sse | will or no, and in my earnest peiiet l we shall draw richly from the family in- l tercourse.
 I s.If we were those who look upon the l peaceful contests of commerce as eco- | homie war, we should hardly feel we 1 could speak with freedom in this presence of the coming days when normal corn l merciaI intercourse throughout the world | shall replace present restricted condi- l lions. for we recognize as matter or course. as an opportunity and duty thev are not slow to see and upon which l they rightly act. that the nations asso- I ciated with us in this war are prepar- 1 ing for their proper share of the world s 1 business when the war shall close
 .sBelieveing as we do, however, that commerce is not war but mutual inter I course to mutual gain, we look without l fear and with strong approval upon ev- l mercial and industrial activities in The | T hnt n a