The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-10-19
STRANGE WORLD THAT
GERMANS WILL enter
AFTER WAR ENDS THEY
WILL BE OUTCASTS.
Redfield Points Out We No
Longer Depend on Teutons
for Dyes and Potash.

ter the war was pictured to the
Southern Commercial congress here
tonight by Secretary Redfeld in an
address telling of the cutting of the
threads of Germany's foreign COM
merce by her own act, and of the
awakening of America and her al
lies to the danger of having their
industries dependent upon foreign
and possibly unfriendly sources of
supply.
when peace shall come and her
merchants take up the task of re-
storing Germany's ruined COM
merce they will find that it is a
strange world which they seek to re-
enter" said the secretary. There
will be difficulties in the path of the
future peaceful penetration of which
they seem not to dream. Com
mercial frightfulness, like it's mill
tary namesake, will have passed
away.
'It will hardly be said again to
any secretary of commerce of the
United States that the German dye
stuff will not permit the establish
ment of an American dyestuff in
dustry. The monopolies on which
German foreign commerce in large
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 become
unfriendly.
Germany's Lost Commerce.
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 COM
merce where they laid it down. They
reckon the worlds demand for pot
ash as purely German asset. 1t
was so, but ii is no longer. Thev
were the worlds source of dyestuffs.
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 sup
ply OF chemical porcelain. We make
II today as we'll as they.
Il need not tell you of the COM
mercial value of what we call good
Will or point the advantage of do
ing business 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 strug-
gle. Her past markets 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 COM
mercial intercourse which was bro
ken by her act. 1t must be renewed
under circumstances of peculiar
hardship.
"As Ii will be a strange world up
on which the German merchant will
look out when war shall close, so let
me add IL will be in a large measure
a strange world upon which the
American merchant will look out at
the same time. When embargoes
are over and trading with the enemy
acts shall have ceased to trouble,
we also shall see things differently.
The novelty Will not OH our part
arise from separation but the re-
verse. We have gained and are
gaining a better understanding OF
the world we live in. Scales of
provincialism have fallen from our
eyes.
We Get New Vision.
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 we're before that
happened. Each knows the other
better than he did. Old lines OF sep
aration have gone. Our vision is en-
larged Applied to commerce. this
means that we understand other
peoples and their needs better and
know better what we do to supply
them. Our men with vision are
reaching out into all the lands.