El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-18
Wild U. S. BAR OUT GERMANS?-
ANYHOW. THEIR TRADE is GONE

HOW very correctly the KoelHsche Zetung judged the
situation afe- the war when it said that Germany had
suffered defeat amounting disaster through incur
mig the hostility Of the United States The Cologne paper
said that after the Germans viii find themselves barred
from entering the United States the great country Of the
west which ali Europeans look the land OF opportunity
where fortunes nay be made liberty enjoyed and happi
ness be the result Of liberty and prosperity
Perhaps the Zeitung takes view Little extreme There
indication that any economic agreement the allied
countries may have devised includes forbddng the uni-
grafton Of Germans Indeed It is the disposition Of pres-
dent wilson not shared by very many OF his fellow eoun-
tymen apparently, hold the German people guesS Of
the atrocities which have shocked the world blaming only
their leaders including the subordinate oIcers OF the Mill
tay caste The president thus would presumably welcome
Germans America after the He might not be in
cned 10 withhold hospitality even from those Germans
whose records might show they had served In the military
forces which IaTihed Belgium and bacened and destroyed
northern France.
Nevertheless when the conerees gather at the round
table and begin drafting peace TERMS and when the German
representatives put their inevitable for eco
n0mic other reprals against Germany Germans, 1t
wiz be that there strong public sentiment in the
United States against having anything with Germany
people o. me olneI aimed confines VIII feel the same way
Those whose sens have been killed or ucspacaed by Ger
torture whose wives and daughters have been violated
by 5easty enemy; whose chdrens hands have been cut
off ther eyes gouged out; whose homes and growing
crops have been waut0ny destroyed and other property
stolen VIII hate Germans long they live and the less
they have do with Germans the better they VIII be
pleased and they VIII want German goods either They
win nav more if necessary for inferior goods rather than
buy "made in Germany products.
Germany already realizes German products viii not be
popular after the and number Of the largest factories
with formerly extensive overseas connections said to
arranged manufacture goods Germany for export
under the living label made in England or British manu-
facture Dispatches from Holland say plans for marketing
goods thus decetuly marked have already been cOmmu
nicaed BY German manufacturers to Dutch merchants
These Germans realize anything bearing the British label
VIII stand for honest manufacture and sincerity throughout
while German goods VIII bear all the stigma and arouse all
the anmosty that Germany and Germans have aroused
during the
So far as the United States is concerned as to those
goods which may be offered for sale by Germans but
be manufactured in this country, Germany might as vel
bid her trade goodbye.
Consider for instance auine dyes The outbreak Of
the European first hit the American people hard when
Britain applied the blockade and rendered expectation OF
dyes from Germany impossible. Germany the chief
Manufacture Of dyes for the world Germany had the fac
tories the workers and the formulas No other nation had
paid much attention 10 dye making Therefore Germans
allowed 20 ahead and monOpolze the industry Be
fore long American newspapers carried announcements
the cotton and wool textile centers IN New England
and the south that dye almost Improbable for color
ing cloth When the supply practically exhausted and
manufacturers prophesyng that Americans soon would
wearing unco0Ted garments the state department
ranged with the allies pass ship two loaded with
dyes for this country These shipments together with
Deutschland in 1916, the only ones Of dyes to reach
this country since 1914.
therefore up TO Americans 20 manufacture their
dyes get the fOrmuae, install the factories and
train the workers operate them The result that dyes
produced the United States IN 1912 eguaed in amount
the annual ip0rLatiOus before the The manufacture
Of this country last year totaed 100000 pounds
valued s57796027, with 81 establishments devoted to
the manufacture Of dyes alone. At the same time Amer
dyes valued at S11O9287 were sent 10 other countries
showing the manufacture IN the United States exceeded
domestic requirements BY that much.
Thus great industry has been built up this country