Evening star., 1918-01-20
Planning Trade Battles to Come After World War Is Over

them with this and that. Daily they sit
at long tables in Washington-master
of banks and railroads. of mines. forests
and manufactories-hghti the Prus.
slams. In little while they will be
fighting another kind of a battle with
Great Britain. France. Italy and the
other countries of Europe. The battle
has already opened between the Eng
1ish and the Americans-opened with
out intention and through necessity
Once wool woven in the United states
but grown in Argentina, Australia ana
New Zealand. was transported to Eng
land in British ships and bougne
through London. Freightage was paid
to Englishmen and so were commits
sions. 1t was so with hides and skins
from South America. with rubber from
Brazil and the East Indies. with oute
from India. with palm oil from Africa
and with tin from the Straits Settle
ments and Bolivia. But these things
are no more.
The war has changed ocean routes
and trade relations. Now. the Inleeo
States is dealing directly with the pro,
ducers of raw materials. Soon IT WIZ
have the ships to haul it's exports and
its imports. At this moment. IN Perth
Amboy n. j., the first American I'M
smelling works is being operated TO
it's capacity and it is a large plant;
Half of the tin mined in Bolivia VIII
be refined in this country hereafter:
Palm OIL into which steel plates must
be dipped before they can be coated
with tin, is no longer purchased III
England, but imported from AFRICA.
DYES have been referred to in this ar
ticle. Burwell S. Cutler. chief of the
bureau of foreign and domestic COM
merce, told the writer that American
dyes are being sent to twenty-one coun-
tries. including England, France, ia
pan, Italy and Canada. On Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week 200 man.
ufacturers of dyestuffs, representing
$4,000 900 of capital. invested in what
is practically a new American indus
try, will meet in New YORK for the
purpose of standardizing their prod
ucts and of planning for their entrance
into the foreign markets.
The twenty dye factories in Germany
that were and are yet. perhaps, con-
trolled by six companies, with a capi-
tai of s54o00.o00 and the dividends OF
which averaged 22 per cent year. had
a monopoly of the business and by un-
fair methods controlled the market IN
this country. They Will sell no more
dyes in the United States and the Sl5,-
100000 yearly taken from domestic in
dustries will remain here, to the benefit
Of American labor and capital. More
over. American dyes viii give color to
the rest of the world. The industry
has been established and will prosper.
1t is now producing aniline oil, benzol.
acids and naphthalene to the value OF
$100.000.000 yearly. Until the war. 1t
was the most profitable business within
the German empire.
England, the greatest of traders in
history. built up it's immense fabric of
commerce and industry by the policy of
cooperation. Banks, ships. factories
and merchants worked together. En-
glishmen, financed by British capital,
built railways and other public utilities
in distant countries. They purchased
steel rails and machinery at home and
English ships got the freight. Sir
George Paish seven years ago estimat-
ed that British investments in foreign
countries amounted to seventeen and
half billion dollars. which at 4 per
cent. meant yearly return Of $780,
100000
The policy Of Germany in extending
its trade throughout the world was
both cooperative and socialistic. Men
Of business were helped by the gov
ernment Leaders of business in that
country were not looked upon as sus-
picious characters. Government and
business walked together. Great Brit
ain. however. was individuaiistic as
plain Indications, says George e. Rob-
erts, vice president of the largest bank
in the United States. that Great Britain
now means .'to use the government as
an agency to forward national pur-
poses"
America" Sir Albert Stanley. presi-
dent Of the British board of trade. told
an audience of Americans in London re-
Gently, will find a stronger and keener
competitor than ever in England after
the war"
"This Is not q challenge" he added.
I'VE are willing to put our nine (going
to the base ball diamond for an illustra-