The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-17
Germany Has Cut Threads
+ Of Her Foreign Com
merce Says Redfield
HER MONOPOLY IN
MANY LINES BROKEN
Advantages of Good Will.
And Going Concern"
Have Been Lost
[By Associated Press.l

New York, Oct. 17.-What a diff
ferent world of trade this will be aft
err the war was pictured to the
southern commercial congress here
last night by Secretary Redfeld, in
an address telling Of the cutting of
the threads Of Germany's foreign
commerce by her own act, and Of the
awakening of America and her allies
to the danger of having their indus
tries dependent upon foreign and
possibly unfriendly sources of sup
ply.
Then peace shall come and her
merchants take up the work Of re-
storing Germany's ruined commerce
they will find that it is strange
world which they seek to re-enter,"
said the secretary. There will be
difficulties in the path of future
peaceful penetration of which they
seem not to dream. Commercial
frightfulness. like it's military name
sake, will have passed away.
1T 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 dye
stuff 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 learn
ed the danger of having our indus
tries wholly dependent on foreign
sources of supply which may be-
come unfriendly.
Have Lost Assets.
cit 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 it down. They reckon
the worlds demand for potash as a
purely German asset. 1t was so but
it is so no longer. They were the
worlds source for dyestuffs. That
opportunity has gone 1t was to
them the world looked for optical
glass. We do not look there now.
They were the source of supply of
the chemical porcelain. We make 1T
today as well as they.
Il need not tell you of the COM
mercial value of what we call good
viii or point the advantage of doing
business as "a going concern. The
great markets Of the world have been
and are to be found among the ma
tons who have parted company with
Germany in the present struggle.
Her past markets have been found
among these. The peoples OF these
lands are not likely with one common
impulse to turn quickly to Germany
for a renewal OF the commercial
intercourse which was broken by her
act.
cit win be strange world upon
which the German merchant will look
when war shall close. so let me add
IL will be in a large measure a
strange world on which the Ameri-
can merchant will look out at at the
same time, when embargoes are
over and trading with the enemy,
acts shall have ceased to trouble.
The novelty win not on our part
arise from separation but the re-
verse. We have gained and are gain
ing a better understanding of the
world we live In Scales OF
provinclalism have fallen from our
when our sons have fought and
died together with those OF Great
Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and
our other honored friends, things
cannot be as they were before that
Each knows the other
better than he did. Old lines Of
separation have gone. Our vision Is
enlarged. Applied 70 commerce this
means that we understand other peO-
Die and their needs better and know
better what we may do to supply
them. Our men with vision are
reaching out into All the lands. We