The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-24
MONDAY, MARCH d, 1910.
MUST MEND HER WAYS.

Germany will have to show far more
sorrow and repentance than she has yet
shown, in order to obtain that good
will among the nations of the earth
which is necessary for the building up
of her trade and commerce To some
extent it may be possible for her to-
market her goods according to the
fayorite theory of the former imperial
German government that ill-will was
not worth considering as a factor in
commercial exchanges; the question is
entirely one of the profit that would
accrue to the parties in such exchanges.
How this theory will work out cannot
now be determined, but Germany Is
quite likely to find it harder to dispose
of her goods in many countries than
she supposes. The allies have permit
ted her to make a beginning of ex-
portations. The extent is limited The
supreme council of the peace congress
is inclined to the policy of lberality,
dCtudteu lHeleDy " q COHS4ucid Dle ue-
gree by the motive of elf-interest. If
! Germany is unable to sell her products,
she will be unable to pay for the dam
| age she has done, and so she is to have
access to the markets of the world
But while the supreme council so pro,
poses, it cannot dispose of the antipa-
thies engendered by the war, and make
the peoples of France, Belgium, Great
Britain and the United States buy and
handle German goods if they do not
want to- They will not want to, unless
Germany shows herself to be a very
different sort of Germany than she has
been. Thus far she has not acted il
a way to get the good will of possible
customers, which is one of the most
essential elements in good salesman
ship.
How much Germany has got to d.
to restore herself in esteem, before sh,
can hope to get very far in the restora
ton of her material prosperity, her bu
reaus of trade would realize more fully
than they now seem to, if they coulC
review the resolves not to trade witt
/ Germany that were made during tn
war. Not more than IS months ago
members of the Travellers PROTECTIVE
association of America at a conven
ton in st. Louis, unanimously pledged
themselves never again to sell an,
goods of German or Austrian manufac
ture. A widely circulated trade publ
cation commented on this action a
follows:
Reaching by personal contact mil
lions of people from the great cite
to the remotest hamlet, the travelin
men of the country, in their determine
.. ton not to sell goods made by promise
breakers, liars, hooters, rapers of ma
tons and individuals, and ruthles
murderers of innocent women and chi
dren, are a mighty force enliste
against German lust for German worl
domination and all that would mea
to liberty-ioving people. Cut off Gel
many's ability to revive and continu
her foreign trade by refusing to buy {
use goods branded with Made in Gel
many, the Cain among nations an
you destroy the source of her powt
= which enabled her to run amuck Will
II drunk with her accursed kultur. :"
II There is no doubt but that the SCI
II timents here expressed were very pre-
alent at that time They are not Il
II kind that are quickly forgotten. I'll
II wounds which Germany made hay
u been too deep to be so swiftly heale