Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-17
DIFFERENT WORLD
. WHEN WAR IS ENDED
Nations Will Face Strange Con.
ditions in Building Up
Their Commerce.
HARD TASK FOR GERMANY
Secretary Redfield Pictures Plight
Into Which Teuton Enemy
Has Plunged Himself.
HARD TASK FOR GERMANY

after the war was pictured TO the
Southern Commercial Congress here to-
night by Secretary Redticld in an ad-
dress telling OF tho cutting of the
threads of Germany's foreign commerce
by her own act and of the awakening
of America and her allies to the dan
ger OF having their industries de-
pendent upon foreign, and possibly
unfriendly, sources of supply.
when peace shall come and her
merchants take UP the task of restor-
ing Gcrmanys ruined commerce, they
will find 1t is a strange world which
they seek TO re-cnter," said the secre-
tary. There will be difficulties in the
path of the future peaceful pcnetra-
zion Of which they seem not to dream.
Commercial frightfuiness. like it's mill
itary namesake will have passed away.
II will hardly be said again to any
Secretary Of Commerce of the United
States that the German dyestuff verein
will not permit the establishment OF
an American dyestuff industry The
monopolies on which German foreign
commerce in large part seemed to rest
secure have passed away. Our friends
beyond the sea and we ourselves have
learned the danger of having our in
dustries wholly dependent on foreign
sources of supply which may become
unfriendly.
PITIFUL TO READ COMMENT
FROM GERMAN PAPERS
1T is pitiful to read extracts from
the German press. which seem TO show
that they expect TO take up the task of
rebuilding their commerce where they
laid II down. They reckon the worlds
a.
asset. 1t was so, but it is no longer.
They were the worlds source of dye
stuns. That opportunity has gone. 1t
was they to whom the world looked
for optical glass. We do not look there
now. They were the source of supply
of chemical porcelain. We make it to-
day we'll as they.
Il need not tell you OF the CONNER
cial value of what we call good will,
or point the advantage of doing bust
ness as a going concern The great
markets OF the world have been and
are TO be found among the nations who
have parted company with Germany in
the present struggle. Her past mar
kets have been found among them. The
peoples of these lands are not likely by
one common impulse to turn quickly to
Germany for a renewal of the CONNER
cial intercourse which was broken by
her act. 1t must be renewed under
circumstances of peculiar hardship.
las it will be a strange world upon
which the German merchant will look
out when war shall close, SO. let me
add, it will be in a large measure a
strange world upon which the Ameri-
can merchant will look out at the same
time. When embarEoes are over and
trading with the enemy acts shall have
ceased TO trouble. we also shall see
things differently. The novelty will
not on our part arise from separation,
but the reverse. We have gained and
are gaining a better understanding of
the world we live in. Scales OF pro-
vincialism have fallen from our eyes.
THINGS CANNOT BE
AS THEY WE'RE BEFORE WAR
When our sons have fought and
died together with those OF Great
Britain, France, Italy. Russia. and our
honored friends. things cannot be as
they were before that happened. Each
knows the other better than he did.
Old lines of separation have gone. Our
vision is enlarged. Applied to COM
mercc, this means that we understand
other peoples and their needs better
d
supply them. Our men with vision are
reaching out into all the lands.
In the coming days, when normal
commercial intercourse throughout the
world shall replace present restricted
conditions we recognize as a matter of
course that the nations associated with
us in this war are preparing for their
proper share OF the worlds business
when the war shall close.
"RelievinE as we do, however, that
commerce is not war, but mutual in
tcrcourse to mutual gain, we look with
out fear and with strong approval upon
every effort OF our friends to renew
commercial and industrial activities in
the happier days that are coming"
Among the distinguished guests of
the congress who listened attentively
to Secretary Redhelds address were j.
j. Jusserand. the French ambassador:
Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice. the British
ambassador; Count V. Macchi de Cell
iere. the Italian ambassador, and Mr..
Boris Balhmeteff, the ambassador OF
the new Russia.
CABLE Is READ FROM
PRESIDENT POINCARE
a cable from President Poincarc ex-
pressing lHtcIeSl III tie WOTH VI lilS
congress was read by Ambassador Jus
scrand. The great problems of recon
struction when peace comes to the
world was touched on by the ambassa-
dor.
"An immense reconstruction will be
needed he said, Especially by those
nations who have fought the enemy on
their own soil Problems Of all sorts
will confront us. We are confident.
You OF the South have had your similar
problems. We will talk ours over with
you. Your inventive and liberal mind
and ours will work together"
He then mentioned the mighty ma
terial and moral" support that the en-
trance OF Amcri,a into the conflict has
brought the allies.
Oscar Straus said that: "Unless the
god OF the HohcnZollern Is abandoned
NV tho C,crnan no NpJa 1un oh ha ua ~