Arizona republican., 1917-09-18
XIV. German Trade as Spring ot the World War

Nothing surprised me more as the war developed than the discovery of the great variety and amount of goods exported from Germany to the United States.
 Goods sent from the United States to Germany are mainly prime materials approximately $160,000,000 year of cotton, $75,OOO,OOO of copper, $15.0O0, 900 of wheat, $20,0000 GOO of animal fat, $1O,- 900. 900 of mineral oil and a large amount of vegetable oil. Of course, the amount of wheat is especially variable. Some manufactured goods from Amer ica also find their way to Germany to the extent, perhaps of $70 O00.OO0 year, comprising machinery. such as typeWriters. and miscellaneous lne of machinery and manufactures. The principal exports from Germany to America consist of dyestuffs and chem ical dyes, toys, underwear, surgical in struments. cutlery, stockings, knit goods. etc. and a raw material called potash. also known as kali. The last is q mineral found nowhere in the world except in Germany and in a few places in Austria. Potash is essential to the manufacture of many fertilizers. fertilizer being composed, as a rule. of potash, phosphates and nitrates. The nitrates in past years have been eX- ported to all countries from Chilli. Phosphate rock is mined in South Carolina and Florida and several other places in the world.
 Curiously enough, both nitrates and potash are essential ingredients also of explosives used in war. Since the war the German supply from Chili was cut off, but the Germans, following a sys- tenn used in Norway for many years before the war established great cleo -sr ralo Co. ~k- zts ..t trate from the atmosphere Since the war American agriculture has suffered for want of potash and German agri culture has suffered for want of pnos- plates; possibly of nitrates also be cause l doubt whether sufficient ni- trogen is extracted from the air in Ger many to provide for more than the needs of the explosive industry.
 German Monopoly in Dyestuffs
 The dyestuff industry had been de veloped to such a point ir Germany that Germany supplied the whole world In the first months of the wal some enterprising Americans, headed by Herman Metz, chartered a boat called the Matanzas and sent it to Rottel dam, where it was loaded with a carg, of German dyestuffs The boat sailed under the American flag, and was moi interfered with by the English Later on the German department of the in -terior, at whose head was Delbruck, re. fused to allow dyestuffs to leave Ger. many except in exchange for cotton and. finally. the export of dyestuffs from Germany ceased and other couii- tries were compelled to take up tho question of manufacture This state o affairs may lead to the establishment of the industry permanently in tn, United States. although that industr, will require protection for some years as undoubtedly Germany, in her des. perate effort to regain a monopoly O this trade, will be ready to spend enor. nous sums in order to undersell ths American manufacturers and driy, them out of business.
 The commercial submarines Deutsch. land an Bremen were to a great exten built with money furnished by the dye stuff manufacturers, who hoped bN sending dyestuffs in this way to Amer ica that they could prevent the devel opment of the industry there. I ha many negotiations with the foreign of flee with reference of this question a dyestuffs.
 War Cuts Off Supply of German Toy
 The export of toys from Germany f